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Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman (born c. 13 November 1941) is the replacement chief judge of the Al-Dujail trial of Yousef Ali Ghalib in 2006, when he sentenced Saddam and some of his top aides to death by hanging. Abd al-Rahman is an ethnic Kurd from Halabja, the site of the 1988 Halabja poison gas attack. [1]
Ruf Automobile GmbH (stylized as RUF) is a German car manufacturer. Formerly using Porsche bodies in white to build cars, today they build vehicles on their own bodies and chassis. They also manufacture performance parts for various Porsche models, including the 911 , Boxster, and Cayman .
AW Rostamani Group, also known as “AWR”, is a privately held company established in 1954 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, [3] by Al Rostamani brothers, Abdullah and Abdul Wahid Al Rostamani. The company is headquartered in Dubai and employs over 3,800 workers.
The Al Ghurair Group built the United Arab Emirates' first cement factory, flour mill, and sugar refinery. [1] [12] The group founded the Bank of Oman (later Mashreq Bank) in Dubai 1967. [13] In 1969, the group bought minority owner Ottoman Bank out of its 15 percent share of the bank. [13] The bank had assets of over DH 3,000,000,000 by 1978. [13]
Al Ghurair (Arabic: الغرير) was established in 1960.Al Ghurair is one of the largest diversified family business groups in the Middle East, with six key business units: Foods, Resources, Properties, Construction, Mobility and Ventures, including Auto Servicing & Trading, Retail and Education (Dar Al Marefa).
The Group has constructed Abraj Al Bait Towers in Mecca [6] and has been contracted by Kingdom Holding Company to build the Jeddah Tower. [7] On 11 September 2015, while doing construction work in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of the Group's cranes collapsed due to high winds causing 118 deaths and almost 400 injuries. [8]
Abdur Rahman was the Vice-Chairperson of Emirates Trading Agency (commonly known as ETA Star) and Ascon Group, a Dubai-based conglomerate from 1973 to 2015. He is the founder of B. S. Abdur Rahman University (earlier named Crescent Engineering College), one of the first privately owned engineering colleges in Chennai.
Al Ghurair has chaired the Al Ghurair board since 2008, [3] and since 2003 has been a board member of Abdul Rahman Saif Al Ghurair Investments and Mashreq Bank, [4] the oldest privately held bank in the Emirates. He has been a member of the Dubai Economic Council since 2003. [5]