Diversity in the Islamic economy: ‘I’m a white non-Muslim woman specialising in halal travel analysis’
This article is written by Hannah Pearson, Director of Pear Anderson, a Kuala Lumpur-based boutique tourism consultancy specialising in Muslim tourism. Her article is part of Salaam Gateway’s International Women's Day 2020 series that is co-designed and curated by Nyra Mahmood, MD of UK-based Simply Sharia Human Capital (SSHC LTD), the publishers of the 2016 report "Women in Islamic Finance & Islamic Economy”.
The world of halal travel analysis is not particularly diverse. You tend to come across the same names at every conference or in every publication, names and faces which typically belong to Muslim, non-Caucasian males. So as a non-Muslim, white British woman, talking about Muslim travel, I certainly stand out! When I share where I live, Malaysia, it is not a place many would have guessed.
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