Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambitions Move From Infrastructure to Industrial Execution
IBM’s latest pitch to the Kingdom reflects a wider shift in Saudi Arabia’s AI strategy from building compute capacity and sovereign infrastructure to embedding... Read more.
Turkey’s Tech Sector is Growing but Global Gaps Persist
Turkey's ICT exports grew from $1.5 billion in 2020 to $3.3 billion in 2024, an average annual growth rate of about 22%, with software becoming the dominant export... Read more.
Egypt’s Manufacturing Revival Faces Limits of Fragile Economic Model
Egypt's manufacturing recovery is not purely new industrial dynamism; it is also the release of previously suppressed production capacity.... Read more.
The New Arab LLM Race: Sovereign AI and the Limits of Gulf-Egyptian Ambition
The recent wave of Arabic large language models, Jais in the UAE, ALLaM in Saudi Arabia, and Karnak in Egypt, marks a decisive shift in the region’s AI politics.... Read more.
The Iran War’s Economic Shockwaves Hit Turkey
As missiles crossed the skies of the Middle East and fears mounted over the security of the Strait of Hormuz, the economic shockwaves of the Iran war quickly reached... Read more.
Q&A: 10 Questions Explain War Effect on UAE’s Hub Economy
Higher oil prices may boost revenues in the short term, but prolonged conflict and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz threaten the trade, aviation, finance, tourism,... Read more.
Q&A:14 Questions on the Strait of Hormuz and the Global Economy
The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow maritime passage linking the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. It is the single most important oil chokepoint... Read more.
Inside Saudi Arabia’s $925 Billion Power Machine
No longer just a sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund now sits at the center of Saudi Arabia’s development model—financing giga-projects, building... Read more.
Trump’s Hormuz Blockade: The Economic Shockwave From Military Gamble
By moving from war around the Strait of Hormuz to a direct naval blockade of Iranian ports, Donald Trump has deepened a crisis that was already distorting oil flows,... Read more.
Egypt Announces New Gas Discoveries in Mediterranean, Nile Delta and Western Desert
Cairo announces new offshore and onshore gas finds as production declines by over 20% from peak levels, but early data suggests the discoveries may only slow the... Read more.