Research & Analysis

AI Hallucinations in the Legal Field: Present Experiences, Future Considerations

AI Hallucinations in the Legal Field: Present...

14 August, 2025 | By
  • Debajyoti Chakravarty

When legal AI invents cases, the risk is real—justice, credibility, and ethics hang in the...

A Partnership of Paradoxes: Analysing the Latent Potential in Egypt-UAE Trade

A Partnership of Paradoxes: Analysing the Latent...

12 August, 2025 | By

The strategic and investment relationship between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt has reached...

The Consistent Setbacks to a Proverbial ‘New Middle East’

The Consistent Setbacks to a Proverbial ‘New...

09 August, 2025 | By
  • Kabir Taneja

As old conflicts resurface, the ‘new Middle East’ risks becoming a mirage, revealing the fragility...

United States’ Crypto Vision

United States’ Crypto Vision

09 August, 2025 | By
  • Sauradeep Bag

Cryptocurrency has moved to the centre of US economic strategy, with the Trump administration embracing...

Bridging the Financing Gap for the SDGs: A Framework for Renewed Action

Bridging the Financing Gap for the SDGs:...

05 August, 2025 | By

Introduction Since the adoption in 2015 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their...

From Sea Lines to Fault Lines: Managing the Economic Fallout of the Houthi Shipping Attacks

From Sea Lines to Fault Lines: Managing...

01 August, 2025 | By

Since November 2023, Houthi militants have conducted a sustained campaign against international shipping in the...

A More Connected Mediterranean: France, Egypt, and the Future of IMEC

A More Connected Mediterranean: France, Egypt, and...

01 August, 2025 | By

The Mediterranean Sea: a small maritime space on a global scale, but one that holds...

Why Israel–Syria Normalisation Remains Elusive in the Wake of Suweida

Why Israel–Syria Normalisation Remains Elusive in the...

31 July, 2025 | By
  • Evangeline Cheng

The ceasefire declared in Suweida, Syria on 19 July 2025, was meant to halt a...

The Power of the Stars: Harnessing Nuclear Fusion for Energy Needs

The Power of the Stars: Harnessing Nuclear...

31 July, 2025 | By
  • Mukesh Jindal

From tokamaks to laser beams, fusion energy research is transforming science’s most ambitious dream into...

Chokepoint Checkers: Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Gambit

Chokepoint Checkers: Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Gambit

31 July, 2025 | By
  • Kabir Taneja
  • Prithvi Gupta

Iran’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz reveals the high geopolitical and geoeconomic stakes...

Bridging the Climate Finance Gap in Africa through Debt Swaps

Bridging the Climate Finance Gap in Africa...

30 July, 2025 | By
  • Anika Chhillar

As international climate finance retreats, Debt-for-Climate swaps offer African countries a promising pathway to reconcile...

The Future of Ocean Finance: Scaling Blue Bonds

The Future of Ocean Finance: Scaling Blue...

28 July, 2025 | By
  • Abhishree Pandey

Once a niche asset, blue bonds are riding a wave of climate urgency and investor...

Explaining the Freelance Performance Gap: Egyptians vs Indians

Explaining the Freelance Performance Gap: Egyptians vs...

26 July, 2025 | By
  • Ahmed Dawoud
  • Ahmed Wael Ahmed Habashy

Strategic misalignments, not skill deficits, explain why Egyptian web developers on global freelance platforms like...

EU-UAE Trade Negotiations: A Potential Path to Gulf-Wide European Trade

EU-UAE Trade Negotiations: A Potential Path to...

25 July, 2025 | By

Against the backdrop of adversity and tensions which redefine trade cooperations and economic exchanges, the...

The Impact of Trump’s Energy Policy Reset on the UAE’s Transition Agenda

The Impact of Trump’s Energy Policy Reset...

25 July, 2025 | By

Introduction  United States (US) President Donald Trump’s stated energy policy, framed in the context of...

The European Union A.I. Act 2024: Understanding the Context and Exploring its Future

The European Union A.I. Act 2024: Understanding...

23 July, 2025 | By

Introduction The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI platforms in recent years...

An AI Blueprint for the Future of Work: Lessons from Egypt’s Labour Market

An AI Blueprint for the Future of...

23 July, 2025 | By
  • Ahmed Dawoud
  • Ahmed Wael Ahmed Habashy

Egypt’s labour market is marked by systemic skills mismatches, geographic inequalities, and rising automation risks....

From Resistance to Recovery: The Iranian Economy’s Fight to Survive

From Resistance to Recovery: The Iranian Economy’s...

18 July, 2025 | By

The fragile ceasefire announced in late June 2025 has paused the missile exchanges over the...

Sketching the Future: Bahrain Between Two Visions

Sketching the Future: Bahrain Between Two Visions

16 July, 2025 | By

Since 2024, Bahrain has started revealing the skeleton of what will emerge as a national...

A Maximalist Moment: Why Israel Isn’t Done with Iran

A Maximalist Moment: Why Israel Isn’t Done...

10 July, 2025 | By
  • Michael Horowitz

Following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, experts are assessing the impact, particularly the...

France’s strategic potential: Having agency in the Middle East’s regional stabilisation

France’s strategic potential: Having agency in the...

10 July, 2025 | By

P5 and E3 are acronyms with significant geopolitical weight. The first term refers to the...

Political Participation in the Gulf: Parliaments and Technology

Political Participation in the Gulf: Parliaments and...

08 July, 2025 | By

As of 2024, the Gulf region has undergone a subtle but significant transformation in its...

Iraq on the Sidelines of Regional Conflict

Iraq on the Sidelines of Regional Conflict

07 July, 2025 | By
  • Neil Quilliam

Amidst Israel’s confrontation with Iran and its broader campaign against the Axis of Resistance, Iraq...

The UAE–Jordan CEPA: Trade as a Tool for Middle East Stability

The UAE–Jordan CEPA: Trade as a Tool...

04 July, 2025 | By

The UAE-Jordan CEPA marks a geoeconomic shift—leveraging trade, investment, and labour ties to stabilise Jordan...

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