Thursday 11 October 2012
Egypt
Buying wheat
Nomani Nasr Nomani is arguably the most powerful figure on the global wheat market; he is also the man who ensured Egypt's revolution for freedom didn't turn into "a revolution of hunger".A short walk from Tahrir Square, cauldron of last year's uprising, Nomani works in a run-down Cairo building as chief grains buyer for Egypt, the world's biggest importer of wheat.
Source: reuters
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