Laila Soueif, mother of Egyptian-British blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been detained in Egypt for more than five years, is continuing her hunger strike. Laila Soueif, 68, who has not eaten for 59 days, has urged British Foreign Minister David Lammy to take action to secure her son’s release. The blogger was arrested in […]
Battered by the oil price slump, the underdeveloped banking sector in Algeria sees new financing sources in Islamic finance to tap into the huge informal economy and catch up with Morocco and Tunisia, which have already allowed such participatory banks to operate. As it edges towards offering banking services to suit more religiously conservative investors, […]
Speaker of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, praised the role played by King Mohammed VI in supporting Al-Quds and the Palestinian cause. This came during a visit he paid on Saturday to the headquarters of the Rabat-based Bayt Mal Al-Quds Asharif Agency. Fattouh highlighted the Kingdom’s honorable positions towards the Palestinian cause and the […]
