Exports of Dubai for alcoholic beverages? Middle East business tips ...
General
First, the real experience of your own I think that's true, is an error to apply it to the whole Middle East. Islam forbids the "drunkenness", but also in the Middle East constraints corresponding to the [drinking] is different for each country. Visited Dubai, for which is not blessed with unusual hydrocarbon resources in the Arabian Gulf countries, as a business function city to cover the surrounding area, also, we are a nation-building as a tourist city. For it, regulations on alcohol is relatively is reflected and loose than the surrounding countries. In addition, Bahrain, Qatar, drinking of foreigners / non-Muslims in the also limited places Oman is possible. However, Kuwait among the GCC countries, and, in particular Saudi Arabia is very strict abstinence countries. (Also, in the emirates that make up the UAE, Sharjah Emirate is abstinence Emirates.) Also in the previous countries that can be drunk conditionally, Muslim country because of basically abstinence, only, it needs to be understanding that it is a drinking acceptable as long as in accordance with the "exceptionally" rules.