UAE Has Been Secretly Striking Iran
The United Arab Emirates has secretly carried out military strikes against Iran, including an early-April attack on Iran’s Lavan Island oil refinery.... Read more.
UAE Receives First Nvidia AI Chips Boasting its Tech Ambitions
The shipment marks a turning point in the UAE’s push to become a global AI hub, but it also places Abu Dhabi inside Washington’s widening contest over advanced... Read more.
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.
Ziad Rahbany and Expressing Beirut in Jazz
In the music of Ziad Rahbany, jazz was not imported into Arab culture as a foreign fashion. It was translated into the sound of Beirut: ironic, wounded, political,... 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.
Iraq Turns to Turkey for Air Defenses After Drone War Exposes Its Skies
Baghdad is finalizing a deal for 20 Turkish systems as the Iran conflict pushes Iraq to protect oilfields, diplomatic sites and critical infrastructure from cheaper,... 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.
Egyptian Fighters in the UAE Signal New Phase in Cairo-Abu Dhabi Security Coordination
Sisi and Mohamed bin Zayed’s visited an Egyptian air detachment revealing that Egypt has deployed a Rafale fighters squadron in the UAE.... Read more.
Israel’s Education Minister Threatens University Budgets in Push to “keep politics off campus”
In a statement issued Wednesday, Kisch said university leaders must commit to three principles: avoiding institutional political positions, maintaining continuity... 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.