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MENA inbound remittance corridors

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Sending Money to the MENA Region: Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt Some of the world's most expensive and difficult remittance corridors run into the Middle East and

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Karim Fasih

Karim is a Cairo-based writer who covered fintech and the InstaPay rollout for a regional business outlet. He writes the Egypt lanes and the currency/devaluation explainers. Register: analytical, macro-aware, close to the pound-devaluation story.

Layla Hassan

Layla is a journalist who covered humanitarian finance and cash-transfer programming across the region for an NGO-sector publication before starting the site. She writes the Afghanistan and Iraq lanes and the hawala/banking explainers. Register:...

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