Background to the MENA Region

Ismail, Ayman; Schøtt, Thomas; Bazargan, Abbas; Salaytah, Basheer; Kubaisi, Hamad Al; Hassen, Majdi; Vega, Ignacio de la; Chabrak, Nihel; Annan, Abier; Herrington, Mike; Kew, Penny

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“…The MENA region covers more than 15 million square kilometres from the Atlantic coast of Africa to Central Asia, as well as from the Mediterranean Sea to the Sahara Desert (Ben Ali, 2016). Specifically in terms of geography, the MENA region covers the Moroccan area in north west Africa to Iran in south west Asia and down to Sudan in Africa (Ismail et al, 2018). The MENA region as a whole consists of 493 million people in 2022 and represents about 6 percent of the population on Earth (Ben Ali 2016;World Bank, 2022).…”

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“…Although there are differences in the daily speaking language for every country in the MENA region, in general they use the same official language that is the Arabic language or known as 'Modern Standard Arabic' (Heine, 2004). The countries in the MENA region which use the Arabic language are those in the Arab Gulf which are Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE Savvaidis et al (2022), the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) countries which are Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania Parshotam (2022) as well as other member countries of the Arab League such as Djiobouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Syria (Ismail et al, 2018).…”

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Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Hasan Adali,

Abdul Jabar,

Ismail

et al. 2024

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The MENA region is one of the most rapidly expanding food and beverage marketing platforms in the world. Malaysia as an international halal hub sees the MENA region as an important target for the export market of halal food products. Various efforts have been outlined and implemented towards accelerating the export activity to that region. Hence, this research was conducted to analyse the food ecosystem in the MENA region and the landscape of the halal food market there in detail and comprehensively. This research is a qualitative research which uses the literature review method entirely for the collection and analysis of data. The findings of the research are that the food products which are the main imports for the population in the MENA region are cereal, dairy products, meat, fruit and nuts, food preparation products, vegetables, vegetable fat and animal fat based products, coffee products, tea and spices, cereal and pastry preparation products, as well as sugar and honey products. The findings of this research are useful as it is a reference for the decision makers in the halal food industry in Malaysia who intend to market food products in the MENA region.

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Section: Demography Of the Mena Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Hasan Adali,

Abdul Jabar,

Ismail

et al. 2024

IJARBSS

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“…An unstable economic situation, downturn in the global oil market and ongoing threats to peace following the Arab Springs, have all contributed to set demands to develop human capital in order to face these challenges (Kaphahn & Brennan, 2017). The current outlook is that the potential of youth needs to be realized to make the region globally competitive and enable it to participate in the landscape of fast-changing global markets (Ismail et al, 2018).…”

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The Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Human Capital Investments A comparative study of the MENA Region

Rashidi¹,

Diab-Bahman²,

Al-Enzi³

2021

JEHD

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The MENA region needs to diversify and move towards building knowledge-based economies so that their participation in the human capital of the world can be improved. At present, despite an above average allocation of public spending on the education sector, the returns in terms of jobs and educational quality are not seen. Several challenges like unemployment, poor quality of education, lack of private sector jobs, inability to leverage on technology for increasing the scope of education, war and immigrant crises, and centralized control over education are acting as barriers in the improvement of efficiency of educational systems and hence, the human capital. This paper provides an overview of the current status of key indicators in the region regarding the subject and examines possible relationships between the proxies. This study aims at examining critically how education systems have contributed to downturn in socioeconomic development in the MENA region. It also suggestsa framework based on possible solutions that can allow the region to finally realize the returns on its investments in the education sector. The dependent variable of this study was Human Quality Investment in MENA region while the explanatory variables were; use of technology in learning, centralized control, regional threat, common language, information technology in education, unemployment rate and quality of education.

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A comprehensive analysis of AI adoption, implementation strategies, and challenges in higher education across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

Al-Zahrani,

Alasmari

2025

Educ Inf Technol

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Background to the MENA Region

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Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

The Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Human Capital Investments A comparative study of the MENA Region

A comprehensive analysis of AI adoption, implementation strategies, and challenges in higher education across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

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