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...“UAE foreign policy seems to have shifted toward one that is primarily driven by economic statecraft,” said Afshin Molavi, senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies...
...The enterprising Greek-American, together with her sommelier husband Afshin Molavi, runs several of Chania’s most fashionable restaurants....
...said Afshin, Kohinoor’s 58-year-old son, who now runs the restaurant. “[Bacha] said, ‘I’ll invent a masala for the berry pulao.’...
...While global Chinese overseas investment declined in 2018, the Middle East and north Africa have seen an increase in recent years, according to data collected by Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins...
...“This is a dramatic overture to the US at a time of heightened regional tension,” said Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies....
...“No water in this river means I had to leave my farmlands in the town of Varzaneh and work for the Isfahan municipality for 15,000 tomans [$5.6] per day,” says Afshin as he cuts weeds on the riverbed....
...“It now feels like a small net is being spread but too many fish are being attracted,” said Afshin Farsyabi, a tour guide. “The net has holes which need to be fixed very quickly.”...
...“We tried several times to break through $1,735,” said Afshin Nabavi, head of trading and physical sales at MKS Finance, a gold refiner....
...“It’s another major jolt for us, to design incentives that align managers’ incentives with the long-term interests of the firm and stakeholders such as customers and shareholders”, says Afshin Mehrpouya...
...“Dubai has emerged as the hub of this New Silk Road, linking entire continents,” says Afshin Molavi, senior Middle East adviser at Oxford Analytica....
...It gets a little bit hairy at times,” said Afshin Nabavi, head of trading and physical sales at MKS Finance, a gold refiner....
...“At the moment safe-haven buying tends to be the way the market is going,” said Afshin Nabavi, head of trading and physical sales at MKS Finance, a gold refiner....
...Increasing import tariffs would decrease people’s purchasing power and indirectly encourage women to wear manteaux,” Afshin Roghani, the deputy industry minister, said last year....
...Afshin Nabavi, head of trading and physical sales at MKS Finance, a gold refiner, says: “With these prices we had expected to see much more.”...
...Afshin Nabavi, head of trading and physical sales at MKS Finance, a gold refining company in Geneva, said the physical market remained cautious....
...Despite the political absentees, sports figures Hossein Rezazadeh, a weightlifter, and Afshin Ghotbi, coach of Iran’s football team, took part in the ceremony in an apparent attempt by the regime to gain...
...Afshin Nabavi, head of trading and physical sales at MKS Finance, a gold refining and trading company in Geneva, says: “Sales of scrap have picked up but not that much.”...
...The man put in charge of rescuing World Cup qualification is Afshin Ghotbi, a 45-year-old Iranian-American....
...“I am concerned about economic issues but I’m not afraid,” says Afshin, 27, a psychology student....
...The writer, a fellow at the New America Foundation, was a Dubai-based correspondent for Reuters and is working on a study of hub cities...
...“The Bush administration believes that Iran sees the US as a kind of paper tiger, and this is Washington’s answer to that,” said Afshin Molavi, at the New America Foundation in Washington....
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