Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian street vendors often complain of official harassment, but one sandwich maker-turned-social-media-star hopes his struggles against bureaucracy will motivate young entrepreneurs. Habib Hlila, 27, first set up a food van in the working-class Bab El Khadra district of Tunis in early April, selling sandwiches at ...
Mecca, Saudi Arabia – (AFP) “Business is back,” exclaims Abdullah Mekhlafi at the shop where he sells prayer mats in Islam’s holiest city, which is preparing for the biggest influx of hajj pilgrims since the coronavirus pandemic began. Two years of drastic restrictions on the number of pilgrims who could perform the haj...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is considering the possibility of forming an alternate government with opposition leader and former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, according to local media on Friday. Bennett met late Thursday with his political advisers, including Aron Shaviv in the headquarters of the Defense Ministry in T...
The global halal ingredients market is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 4.9% from its current value of over $327 billion. It is projected to be valued at more than $436.2 billion by 2032. Though Muslims are a minority in North America and Europe, they make up a growing proportion of […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – A visiting Pakistani minister on Wednesday held discussions with Turkish officials on ways to boost bilateral trade. Chaudhry Salik Hussain, minister for Board of Investment (BOI) and special initiatives, met with officials of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Türkiye (DEIK) in Istanbul. Cengiz Ozdemir, president of the T...
ANKARA / ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkiye and Pakistan are determined to increase cooperation at all levels, including on bilateral and international platforms, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as he welcomed Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the presidential palace in Ankara. “We have achieved the annual b...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – (AFP): Israel signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, its first with an Arab country, building on their US-brokered normalization of diplomatic relations in 2020. Two-way trade between Israel and the UAE last year totaled some $900 million dollars, according to Israeli figures. UAE...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended a dinner reception in his honor Tuesday hosted by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkey (TOBB) in the Turkish capital Ankara. Sharif arrived in Türkey on a three-day official visit on Tuesday. M. Rifat Hisarciklioglu, the head of the TOBB, welcomed Sharif and [&...
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s powerful UGTT labor union has declared a general strike on June 16 in protest of the government’s refusal to reform public companies. In a statement, the union said the strike was called “over government’s unwillingness to reform public companies.” It said the general strike will cover 159 public institutions i...
ANKARA – The death toll from a building collapse in southwestern Iran’s Khuzestan province rose to 22, while 48 people were rescued from the rubble. Ihsan Abbasipur, the governor of the city of Abadan, told Iranian state television that the number of injured people as a result of the collapse of a 10-storey business center [&hellip...
