MBW's World Leaders series meets Spek, PopArabia's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Reservoir's Executive Vice President of International and Emerging Markets
Ajram was the biggest-selling female singer in the Middle East in the 2000s, and released the first Arabic-language song to hit Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart
For years, Spek has been a fixture of the UK and US music publishing industries – and their relationship with the MENA region. Here, he explains why he recently upped sticks from New York to live in (and work from) the UAE...