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Zawya
Zawya Limited is a company that provides business intelligence and news focused on the Middle East and North Africa regions.
It is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
It was founded by Ihsan Jawad in London, UK in the year 2000 and re-located to Dubai in 2002. Zawya pioneered the concept of online subscriptions in the Middle East and had 212,000 subscribers in 2009, providing profiles of 12,500 companies and 2,300 projects. The company grew to over 200 employees and a large profitable client base before it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in June 2012.