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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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Workers in the French sector of West Berlin build Tegel airport in November 1948. The airport played a vital role in the defeat of the Soviet blockade of the divided German capital that lasted from June 1948 until May 1949. AFP
US aid drops saved West Berliners. Why can't it do the same for Gazans?

The 1948-1949 Berlin Airlift was a humanitarian operation carried out in the teeth of Soviet aggression. The US could, if it chose to, go to similar lengths in Gaza

CommentMarch 22, 2024
Mustafa Alrawi
Al Ain - February 16, 2009: Pat O'Dwyer, Manager of livestock division holds a handful of cornflakes used to feed cows at the Al Ain Farms for Livestock Production. ( Philip Cheung / The National ) *** Local Caption *** PC0289-AlAinFarm.jpgna08mr-dairydrop1.jpg
Cereal for dinner? The 'scornflakes' drama imparts a valuable lesson for CEOs

Kellogg’s chief executive has created a stir about the best characteristic a business leader can display

CommentMarch 07, 2024
Mustafa Alrawi
TaxGPT, the world’s first AI-powered corporate tax assistant, is helping UAE-based businesses. Photo: Virtuzone
How AI can become the new oil and gas for the Gulf

The UAE's defence industry offers lessons that could benefit the development of artificial intelligence in the region

CommentFebruary 23, 2024
Mustafa Alrawi
Along with Abu Dhabi, Dubai is among the 10 wealthiest cities in the Brics+ grouping. Reuters
How the Brics+ countries can surpass an insular West

The 10-member grouping is getting wealthier, but prosperity needs to be sustained and inclusive

CommentFebruary 08, 2024
Mustafa Alrawi
Leila Aboulela at the Emirates Literature Festival in 2017: 'When I first started to write, I was in a way writing for my mother-in-law as my audience,' she says. Photo: Leila Aboulela
Is a good book more likely to change your mind than a clever tweet?

Social media influencers clearly have their place but in an increasingly digital world, there is still great power in books

CommentJanuary 25, 2024
Mustafa Alrawi
The container ship 'Maersk Bratan' in Hamburg. Maersk and other shipping companies have had to grapple with security threats in the Red Sea following attacks by Houthis. AFP
Why the Red Sea disruptions will dominate the WTO meeting in Abu Dhabi

Houthi actions in recent months prove that we cannot distance trade and politics

CommentJanuary 12, 2024
Mustafa Alrawi
The Swiss town of Davos hosts the World Economic Forum every year. Reuters
The case for the World Economic Forum is only getting stronger

WEF is one of a dwindling group of institutions championing the benefits of globalisation, capitalism and multilateralism

OpinionDecember 29, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
Attendees at the opening of the UN's Cop28 climate summit in Dubai on November 30. Reuters
The rising importance of Gulf economies could make this the Arab century

For opportunities in varied fields – be it health care, education or innovation – the Gulf is proving more successful than many other regions

CommentDecember 01, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
A participant films a Palestinian flag with his mobile phone during a protest in solidarity with people in Gaza, in Kreuzberg district of Berlin, last month. EPA
Why we are taking the Israel-Gaza war so personally

The myth that human beings are mentally equipped to watch a conflict unfold in real time has been thoroughly exposed

CommentNovember 16, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
Relatives sit with children receiving treatment at the Nablus hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on December 16, 2021. - The former stronghold of the Islamic State group, Mosul was devastated by the battle to oust the jihadists that ended in July 2017, and remains, more than 4 years on, a patchwork of gutted concrete carcasses interspersed between buildings under construction. 5 hospitals are being refurbished or reconstructed, according to a public official, leaving only 9 health institutions functioning -- that is, a total of 1,800 beds for a population of 1.5 million. (Photo by Zaid AL-OBEIDI / AFP)
Hospitals must be spared the line of fire

Whether in Iraq or Gaza, it is imperative in wartime to shield hospitals and people there seeking treatment and refuge

CommentNovember 02, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
People inspect the area around Al Ahli Arab Hospital, where hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other. Reuters
An Israel-Hamas narrative battle is on, but we are no fools

The Iraq invasion in 2003 ushered in an era of deceit. Two decades later, the world is much wiser

CommentOctober 20, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
US President Joe Biden meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington last month. The US has directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Kyiv. AP
US aid to Ukraine raises questions that apply to us all

For starters: how do we budget, on an individual level, for causes we care about in a polycrisis world?

CommentOctober 06, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
Good librarians can use their knowledge to guide children around the library’s catalogue. Getty Images
We need more librarians who can read children like a book

In some countries, a lack of investment risks turning growing minds away from books

CommentSeptember 22, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
Horse-drawn carriages ply through Piccadilly Circus in London, before they were eventually replaced by motor cars in the early 1900s. Bettmann
Journey from horses to motor cars to EVs isn't a straight road

New inventions make life better, yet create new problems, so preparation is key

CommentSeptember 08, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
Netherlands' Danielle Van de Donk, left, competes for the ball with South Africa's Bongeka Gamede during the Women's World Cup Group round of 16 soccer match between Netherlands and South Africa in Sydney, Australia, on August 6. AP
Women's football is still fighting for its rightful status and share of the limelight

Many of the issues can be tackled over the coming years as women’s football continues its march forward

CommentAugust 10, 2023
Mustafa Alrawi
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