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...investors' money. "Islamic banking is still a virgin territory," notes Rumman Faruqi, ceo of the London-based Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance. "We have a lot of catching up to do." But the sector remains upbeat. "We are seeing more risk-taking innovations in Islamic asset management," says Rushdi Siddiqui, director of Dow Jones' Islamic Market Indexes, which lists about 1,400 Shari'a-compliant stocks in its global-equity index. "Islamic banks and investors have become more sophisticated and will demand more complex investment vehicles," Hassoune predicts. And as long as there are believers like Uddin, the future...
...Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdi...
...courses on the ship complimented my experiences in the countries. I read books by Ngugi, Rushdi, Malan and Gordimer, among other authors from the countries we visited for my "Ethnic Literature" course. I learned of England's agreement with Hong Kong, problems of international commercial arbitration between multinational corporations and international human rights enforcement against Chinese labor in my "International Law and Problems of World Order" course...
DEEP WELLS. By sinking wells, Egyptian geologists are attempting to tap the vast underground reservoirs that are believed to lie beneath the Western Desert, some of them as much as 1,200 meters (4,000 ft.) below the sand. "Getting at this water," says Egyptian Geologist Rushdi Said, "will make it possible for man to again live in the desert." But only for a while. Filled at the rate of only millimeters a year, these reservoirs of fossil waters are replenished so slowly that for all practical purposes their contents are finite. Though they may yield water for centuries...
...Herodotus, is the gift of the Nile. He was right; Egypt-or at least its most populous and fertile area-was formed by the rich silt washed down from the East African highlands by the waters of the Nile. But which Nile? According to Egypt's leading geologist, Rushdi Said, 55, the present-day Nile is a relative newcomer to Egypt, having been around for only 30,000 years. Before that, he says, at least four different Niles had flowed through-and then disappeared from-the river basin...