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Perplexing Agents: Redefining the Boundaries of Online Agency

Perplexing Agents: Redefining the Boundaries of Online...

05 September, 2025 | By

As AI agents surpass human activity online, the clash between companies like Perplexity and Cloudflare...

The Future Trajectory of Power in Iran  

The Future Trajectory of Power in Iran...

04 September, 2025 | By
  • Kamyar Kayvanfar

Iran’s leaders invoke the rhetoric of unity and resistance to face Israel, but rising  domestic...

Anatomy of a Stalemate: Lebanon’s Path to an IMF Recovery

Anatomy of a Stalemate: Lebanon’s Path to...

29 August, 2025 | By

Lebanon’s IMF deal remains stalled as political and financial elites resist reforms, deepening the country’s...

UAE’s Talent Paradox: Job Trends, Skill Mismatches and AI’s Impact

UAE’s Talent Paradox: Job Trends, Skill Mismatches...

28 August, 2025 | By
  • Ahmed Dawoud
  • Ahmed Wael Ahmed Habashy

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an economy defined by ambition. Its growth story is...

Too Hot to Sustain: Confronting the Gulf’s Extreme Heat

Too Hot to Sustain: Confronting the Gulf’s...

27 August, 2025 | By
  • Leigh Mante

Although the Gulf is accustomed to extreme summer heat, projected temperature increases, especially in rapidly...

Integrating the EU’s hinterland through IMEC

Integrating the EU’s hinterland through IMEC

25 August, 2025 | By

Stretching over 6,400 km, from the Indo-Pacific to the Mediterranean, the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor...

Harnessing Civilian Nuclear Energy Using a Cooperative Framework

Harnessing Civilian Nuclear Energy Using a Cooperative...

22 August, 2025 | By
  • Cauvery Ganapathy

Civilian nuclear energy is at an inflection point globally, and considering its potential, it could...

Leveraging Nuclear Energy Through Small Modular Reactors

Leveraging Nuclear Energy Through Small Modular Reactors

21 August, 2025 | By
  • Cauvery Ganapathy

Civilian nuclear energy carries the potential to deliver on the two critical national pursuits of...

Countdown to BRICS 2026: The India-Africa-UAE Trilateral

Countdown to BRICS 2026: The India-Africa-UAE Trilateral

14 August, 2025 | By

Back in 2019, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Digital Infrastructure, Strategic Power: The Gulf’s Data Centre Boom

Digital Infrastructure, Strategic Power: The Gulf’s Data...

26 June, 2025 | By
  • Kristian Alexander

The Gulf states are investing heavily in sovereign, sustainable, and secure data infrastructure, recasting data...

Breaking the Economic Fragmentation Paradigm: UAE-Romania, Interregional Cooperation between Connectivity Hubs

Breaking the Economic Fragmentation Paradigm: UAE-Romania, Interregional...

20 June, 2025 | By

UAE-Romania ties reflect how gateway states can counter global economic fragmentation through strategic interregional trade...

Syria and the Abraham Accords: Recalculating Middle East Power Equations

Syria and the Abraham Accords: Recalculating Middle...

19 June, 2025 | By

Damascus’s potential entry into the Abraham Accords could reshape regional alliances, strain old loyalties, and...

Building Sustainable Infrastructure in a Rapidly Expanding Gulf Estate Market

Building Sustainable Infrastructure in a Rapidly Expanding...

23 May, 2025 | By
  • Antonios Vouloudis

As the Gulf's real estate market rapidly expands, building sustainable infrastructure is essential to securing...

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