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The Mal Show is a conversation-driven podcast about money and the human condition.

Hosted by ADNOC CFO Youssef Salem  — The show brings together founders, investors, operators, policymakers, and thinkers to examine what really happens inside finance, entrepreneurship, and capital allocation.

Each conversation explores how money moves through modern systems, how capital is raised and deployed, and how ambition, power, faith, and ethics intersect in real life. Islamic finance appears as a living moral lens within these discussions — not as theory, but as practice.

Powered by Mal, the first AI-native Islamic digital financial platform, the podcast reflects Mal’s broader mission: to create space for serious, nuanced conversations about money, values, and modern financial systems without slogans or easy conclusions.

This is where finance is examined with depth, clarity, and intellectual honesty.

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Cryptocurrency is one of the most talked-about industries in the world today. Some people see it as the future of finance. Others see it as speculation and hype. But beyond the headlines and price charts, an entire financial infrastructure is being built — exchanges, platforms, and systems that allow millions of people to buy, sell, and store digital assets. One of the people helping build that infrastructure in our region is today’s guest. Talal Tabbaa is the CEO of CoinMENA, a cryptocurr...
In this episode of The MAL Show (Podcast), we sit down with Wael Nafee — former Careem executive and now Partner at Raed Ventures, one of the region’s leading venture capital firms. Wael has seen both sides of the table: • building companies as an operator • and backing founders as an investor After studying and working abroad, he made the decision to come back and build in the region. In this conversation, we discuss: • Why some founders choose to return and build in emerging markets • T...
Islamic finance is worth trillions; but does it actually fix anything? In the first episode of The Mal Show (podcast), we sit down with Abdallah Abu Sheikh, Founder & CEO of MAL, who raised $230 million in one of the largest seed rounds in the region to build what to be the world’s first AI-native Islamic digital bank. But this conversation goes deeper than fintech. We explore: • Are Islamic banks truly different — or just conventional banks with different terminology? • Is Sharia com...
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