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Investment Community Partner: About Zawya: Zawya is a mission-driven company with a purpose of turning business into an agent for prosperity, innovation and progress to transform the Middle East into a better place to live and work in. In pursuing this mission, we provide business professionals with an information service that helps them understand and develop the regional business environment. Zawya is an independent media and information company with more than 100 professionals based in Dubai and Beirut. For the past seven years, the company has been creating, maintaining and delivering Middle East business information for business professionals. Today our information platform has more than 250,000 users around the world. For more information visit www.zawya.com

Official Business Publication: Executive is a monthly business magazine that offers its readers in-depth and forward thinking analysis, solid reporting and punchy opinion on Middle East commerce, economy and finance as well as regular industry surveys, regional market data, global economic trends and the latest in science, technology and the arts. From Morocco to Iraq, Executive now has a solid network of the best business and economic analysts, experts, and reporters to provide what is arguably the most authoritative business writing in the Middle East. For more information, please visit www.executive-magazine.com  or call us on 961 1 611696

Media Partners: Launched in May 2004 Forbes Arabia has extended the Forbes brand of journalism across the Middle East. Our distinctive and uncompromising editorial style attracts a readership community of local entrepreneurs, company owners, industry managers and investors united by a belief in the spirit of free enterprise and entrepreneurial values, and a constant demand for local language information that delivers a competitive edge. Our editorial team of experts on companies, currencies, management and capital markets across the Middle East contribute an extensive number of original articles written expressly for the magazine’s influential Arabic language readership. In addition, every issue contains cutting-edge content from international editions of Forbes magazine, tailored to be relevant to readers in the Arab World. Covering more than 15 countries in the region, Forbes Arabia offers our advertisers the best reach of professional and personal investors, business owners and decision makers across the Arab World. Forbes Arabia covers the entire investment community - those affluent Arabic business professionals driving national economies. Forbes Arabia has rapidly established itself as the leading Arabic language business publication serving the whole Middle East. Across the region Forbes Arabia is setting the pace for pre-emptive business journalism. By uncovering trends and anticipating opportunities in the regional marketplace, each monthly issue brings top executives information critical to their success – and in the language that they do business.

Moneycab, is the leading independent Swiss online portal for Economy and Lifestyle with specific dossiers like "Dubai & Islamic Finance" or "CEO Interviews". With clients like Vodafone live! and Sunrise live!, various Newsletters (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly) and Magazine-Partners, on- and offline media are covered. 65'000 Economy-Leaders use Moneycab to stay informed on the most important aspects of the Swiss Economy and Lifestyle. http://www.moneycab.com

Capital Magazine is an English language business and finance practice-based monthly, established in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Our publication specializes in providing corporate executives with the tools required to keep them on track with the rapid changes that take place within their respective industries, featuring articles by certified financial and business experts on a broad spectrum of topics - ranging from banking, technology, human capital, risk management to treasury, corporate finance and cash management. Capital is one of the UAE's fastest growing business to business magazines steadily grows in recognition and credibility.   For more information please contact: Sales Office on tel: +971 4 295 7790 or on subscriptions@capital-me.com / www.capital-me.com

Business Islamica is the first monthly magazine in the UAE that specifically covers all aspects of Islamic business & finance both regionally and internationally based in the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC). Business Islamica compliments the exponential growth of the Islamic business and finance industry and acts as a missing link between those with an earnest and widespread desire to understand the system and those who have a wealth of it.  The magazine's objective is to spearhead awareness initiatives, heighten knowledge of its core principles & practices and feature the latest developments in the industry. For more information please contact: Sales Office on tel: +971 4 295 7790 or on subscriptions@capital-me.com / www.capital-me.com

Oxford Business Group (OBG), a UK-based publishing, research and consultancy organisation, publishes economic and political intelligence on the markets of Eastern Europe, North and South Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.  OBG offers comprehensive analysis of political, macroeconomic and sectoral developments, including banking, capital markets, energy, infrastructure, industry and insurance. OBG’s acclaimed economic, political and business reports are the leading source of local and regional intelligence, while OBG’s online economic briefings provide up-to-date in-depth analysis. OBG’s consultancy arm offers tailor-made market intelligence and advice to firms operating in these markets and those looking to enter them.

We take pleasure in advising you of the following facts: Launched in Beirut 1970 by Al Bayan Publishing House.  37 years: 430 monthly issues, 140 supplements, 37 annual issues  Ranked 2nd among Pan Arab Business monthly magazines. (Source: Business Elite Survey, BES 2006,Company : Stat-Ipsos) Addressing all business practices pertaining to Arab business professionals Provides readers in the Levant, GCC & North Africa with in-depth analysis on financial statements and reports on current and emerging markets.  Covers extensively all business sectors. Conducts special interviews with Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs.

Please allow us to introduce AlHuda Centre of Islamic Banking & Economics - Pakistan, a well established name in the Islamic Banking and financial market, working for Advisory, Islamic Financial products development, Awareness, and publications. AlHuda CIBE also published a fortnightly online Magazine on Islamic Banking and Finance News for the better awareness on Islamic Banking and Finance with free subscription worldwide to more than 150,000 desktop. IBF News also online Media Partner of different International Islamic Financial Institutions including IIFM-Bahrain, Business lifestyle-London, Global Professionals - Malaysia, Michel Gessner Consultancy - UK, IIR Me - UAE, Nexxus - London,  SECP - Pakistan ,  Avail Corporation - Singapore etc. To carry the experiences and Image of Islamic Banking internationally, you are requested to contribute us in the form News/Research/ Articles/Advertisement for the better awareness in this field. We promise to continue our humble efforts in the right direction. We appreciate all the comments/feedback for the development of this cause.

A product of ISI Emerging Markets www.securities.com/ifis Your Gateway to Islamic Financial Markets & Investors Be the First to know IFIS (Islamic Finance Information Service) is the most comprehensive online Islamic finance information portal with Global coverage. It exclusively tracks the developments in the Islamic financial world, and is a significant source of information for Industry participants, top investment banks, corporations, law firms, consultants, Rating Agencies, Researchers, insurance companies, universities and libraries, multilateral organizations etc. Global coverage on • League Tables  –  Sukuk (Islamic bonds) the most comprehensive database with global coverage        tracked from 1990 to date – detailing structure of Issues,  Issuers, Bookrunners,        Mandated Lead Arrangers, amount, maturity, Ratings, Listings, Prospectuses,        Research & Analysis, latest news and press releases.  Islamic Funds Database  Syndicated loans, Project finance and Infrastructure financing  The First Online Islamic Finance Shariah Supervisory Database – Profiles of Shariah        scholars, Advisors, Specialisations, and the Institutions they advise. View the most        popular Shariah Scholars  Database of Global law firms involved in Islamic finance – Contacts, specializations,        reports, Awards, news & Press releases Other areas  Top quality research, Reports, academic papers  Islamic financial Guidelines and legal content from Regulatory bodies;  International Rating Agencies – Reports, Commentaries, Ratings of Issuers, Issues,       Sovereigns  Takaful (Islamic Insurance) – Laws & Guidelines, Takaful companies, Profiles,        Financials, Research, News & Press Releases  Capital market data – Broker reports, indices  Books, Magazines, News & Press Releases  Institutional & Company profiles, financials, key executives  Rankings of the top industry players  Financial Market information Much more…… Sign up for IFIS Finance Weekly please click here