Day: May 3, 2024

Empowering Vision: Canon Young People Programme and Lens on Life Collaboration Explored

Mr Mohammed

Sam and Jack Powers are the driving force behind Lens on Life’s groundbreaking partnership with the Canon Young People Programme (CYPP) in Central and North Africa and in the Middle East. Lens on Life is a nonprofit organisation, supporting photography and computer literacy training for young people around the world. During a recent visit to Dubai, Sam and Jack shared insights into their inspiring journey and the transformative impact of their partnership with Canon YPP. Q1: How did Lens on Life come to fruition? What led to the collaboration with…

World Press Freedom Day 2024

Mr Mohammed

Dear colleagues! Today, May 3, we are once again celebrating World Press Freedom Day, as declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. Unfortunately, press freedom has not increased globally over these years, nor has democracy. Reporters Without Borders will publish the latest edition of the World Press Freedom Index today too, and many circumstances indicate that the decline in press freedom will continue. These topics also intersect with agriculture and food production. As our president, Lena Johansson, highlighted in the latest newsletter from the International Federation of Agricultural…

Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) Publishes New Book on Applications of Agent-Based Simulation in Islamic Finance

Mr Mohammed

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, May 2, 2024/ — The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) (https://IsDBInstitute.org) has released a new book detailing applications of agent-based simulation in Islamic Finance. Titled “Applications of Agent-Based Simulation in Islamic Finance”, the book is an edited collection of papers authored by students who graduated from the Islamic Financial Engineering Laboratory based in Rabat, Morocco. The Laboratory was established in 2013 by Mohammed V University in Rabat and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). Former heads of the Laboratory, Prof. Rajae Aboulaich and Prof. Mohamed Tkiouat, edited the…