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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...

Trump Returns to the Gulf: Experts Decode the Strategic Implications

Trump Returns to the Gulf: Experts Decode...

Trump Returns to the Gulf: Experts Decode the Strategic Implications Last week, the United States...

Bahrain Must Rethink Its Stand on the SIDS Classification

Bahrain Must Rethink Its Stand on the...

15 May, 2025 | By

The UN and SIDS The Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA) of 1994, a policy document...

Addressing the Critical Minerals conundrum: Pathways for the India-France-UAE Trilateral

Addressing the Critical Minerals conundrum: Pathways for...

11 May, 2025 | By
  • Cauvery Ganapathy

While the United States (US)-China dynamic will undoubtedly curate the broader context of the subject...

I2U2: An Opportunity to Forge a Climate-Resilient Minilateralism

I2U2: An Opportunity to Forge a Climate-Resilient...

07 May, 2025 | By

From tariff wars and strategic decoupling to climate-induced catastrophes and regional conflicts, geopolitical whirlwinds have...

Powering the AI-Nuclear Nexus: Strategic Integration of Nuclear Energy for AI Infrastructure in Gulf Nations

Powering the AI-Nuclear Nexus: Strategic Integration of...

If public statements are any indication of future policy direction, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s...

Beyond Oil and War: A Closer Look at MENA’s Economic Subsystems

Beyond Oil and War: A Closer Look...

02 May, 2025 | By

Oil and conflict dominate headlines, but MENA’s real story lies in the contrasting economic paths...

The AI-Sustainability Paradox and the Global South: Regulation for Sustainable Innovation

The AI-Sustainability Paradox and the Global South:...

29 April, 2025 | By
  • Dewi de Weerdt

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly been framed as a solution to environmental challenges, contributing to...

The Gulf Railway Project: Bridging the Gaps between Vision and Reality

The Gulf Railway Project: Bridging the Gaps...

24 April, 2025 | By

The Gulf Railway Project (GCC Railway) has ambitiously attempted to develop a transnational infrastructure plan...

Revisiting Türkiye-GCC Economic Cooperation amid Trump 2.0

Revisiting Türkiye-GCC Economic Cooperation amid Trump 2.0

17 April, 2025 | By
  • Gamze Coskun Bakir
  • Nesibe Hicret Battaloglu

The economic relationship between Türkiye and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has evolved significantly...

Global race for minerals will define new power equations

Global race for minerals will define new...

11 April, 2025 | By
  • Pranjal Sharma

The hunger for rare earths and critical minerals is shaping global geo-political developments. The control...

Bytes and Bubbles: Comparing the 90s Dot-Com Bubble and the AI Race

Bytes and Bubbles: Comparing the 90s Dot-Com...

08 April, 2025 | By

Every disruptive technology sparks excitement, investment, and the risk of a bubble—and AI is no...

Strategies for UAE’s Future Development: Promoting Equitable Growth Across Emirates

Strategies for UAE’s Future Development: Promoting Equitable...

02 April, 2025 | By

Abu Dhabi and Dubai have led the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) economic transformation. Other emirates...

Examining the UAE’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) Landscape

Examining the UAE’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement...

21 March, 2025 | By

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has a clear goal to achieve AED 4 trillion (US$1.1...

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