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Mustafa Alrawi

Mustafa Alrawi

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Mustafa Alrawi is group director of editorial partnerships at International Media Investments and a columnist for The National. He is an accomplished journalist and broadcaster, with more than 18 years' experience working in the UK, the UAE and the Middle East. He has interviewed a number of international business leaders including Mubadala's Khaldoon Al Mubarak, BP's Bob Dudley and Emaar's Mohamed Alabbar. He was The National's business editor for four and a half years and acting managing director at CNN Business Arabic. He is a published author and a regular public speaker and moderator at events and conferences.
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Today, access to information is no longer seen as a luxury but as a necessity, despite the heavy irony of it being in far more regular supply than ever before. EPA
We should consume information like we eat our food – at intervals

'Infobesity' isn't a new concept, yet we struggle to regulate our intake of data

May 30, 2025
A technician monitors the self-driving taxi developed by Baidu in Beijing. AI is bringing forth the 'always-on economy' that we must all prepare for. AP
The age of automation needn't be a cause for pessimism

The emerging 'always-on economy' will be disruptive, but we are not helpless

May 16, 2025
People use candles in the streets in Ourense, Galicia, north-western Spain, amid a power cut this week. EPA
Blackouts in Spain and Portugal: Energy transition isn't black and white

Lack of investment across all types of energy sources has added to the vulnerability of hitherto reliable markets in the West

May 01, 2025
Microsoft's 50th anniversary at its headquarters, on April 4, in Redmond, Washington. The company will shut down its 21-year-old video calling platform Skype early next month. AP
Call ended: Skype had a good run – can its successors hang on longer?

What does the end of Skype and the legal wrangling over Meta’s purchase of WhatsApp say about the future of video calls?

April 18, 2025
The DAX Index yield curve displayed on a screen beyond a television with an image of Friedrich Merz, the incoming German chancellor, at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Bloomberg
Strap yourselves in – a new era of global economic expansion is upon us

An investment competition between Europe, the US and the Gulf is about to be unleashed

March 21, 2025
US President Donald Trump has championed Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in recent years. Reuters
Trump’s crypto reserve plan is a warning shot to rival nations

The US President’s latest move is as much a geoeconomic decision as it is a domestic one

March 06, 2025
Manchester United players react following their Premier League defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in London. PA
Manchester United and the West’s economies are stuck in a moment they can’t get out of

Once world-beaters, they have become ungovernable in an era of digitalisation and polarisation

February 20, 2025
A terminal tractor passes in front of a stock yard of DP World's fully automated Terminal 2 at Jebel Ali Port in Dubai. Reuters
The UAE’s record shows being dragged into trade wars isn’t inevitable

Countries don’t have to go down the protectionist route that Trump’s America is taking

February 06, 2025
A screen broadcasting live footage of the U. S. President Donald Trump presenting an executive order during the inaugural parade while other screens display the current Japanese Yen exchange rate against the U. S. dollar are seen at a dealing room of the foreign exchange trading company Gaitame. com, in Tokyo, Japan January 21, 2025. REUTERS / Issei Kato
Is big business taking a back seat from playing to the gallery?

Many companies seem confident in talking about their purpose without fussing too much about what’s considered woke

January 24, 2025
A home continues to burn after the passage of the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on Wednesday. AFP
I was pessimistic about 2025 until I read about 1816 – and now I live in hope

One of the worst years in history shows humans can not just survive but also thrive, if we put our minds to it

January 10, 2025
A flypast at the Yas Marina Circuit at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Chris Whiteoak / The National
Abu Dhabi Finance Week apart, the capital is having a moment

Abu Dhabi is a living example of an evolved version of capitalism

December 12, 2024
There are ethical questions to be debated and discussed, such as 'what limits should there be on AI?' AFP
As AI begins to take our jobs, we should take action

We shouldn't be pessimistic or passive about the future, for we all have agency and responsibility to help shape it

November 28, 2024
Publishers from the UAE, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, the UK and India have gathered at the Sharjah International Book Fair. Pawan Singh / The National
How good fiction can help the Middle East turn the page

With the region in turmoil, good literature offers more than just an escape

November 15, 2024
Manchester City's Spanish midfielder Rodri receives the Ballon d'Or award. Real Madrid's Brazilian forward Vinicius Junior came in second during the 2024 Ballon d'Or France Football award ceremony in Paris on October 28. AFP
What Real Madrid and the US Presidential election have in common

It is important to not lose sight of the bigger picture, whether in football or politics

October 30, 2024
Shanghai is part of one of the most innovative, and prosperous, regions in the world. Getty
What creates prosperity?

Three US-based academics have won the Nobel Prize for trying to answer this question, but the answer is complicated

October 17, 2024

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