PRESS RELEASE: "Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East: Major Regulatory Restrictions"
October 16, 2007

Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East: Major Regulatory Restrictions
Svitlana Khyeda, Senior Program Administrator, International Law Institute

Published:  INSIGHT TURKEY, April – June, 2007, Vol. 9, Number 2

This article focuses on the comparative analysis of major regulatory restrictions on foreign investment in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, countries that are representative of the Muslim Middle East: the Egyptian legal system has served as a pattern for many of the Middle Eastern countries, Shari'a is the primary source of law in Saudi Arabia as in some other Middle Eastern countries and Turkey is a Muslim secular state which adopted more modern version of the civil code system.