Global The realty of the metaverse Amash Malik is director of performance marketing at Bayut & dubizzle From the moment Facebook rebranded to Meta, the concept of... Thought Leadership • 04 April, 2022 metaverse
Regional This is the year cryptocurrency will come of age in the Middle East Areije Al Shakar is the senior vice president at Bahrain Development Bank & director at Al Waha Venture Capital Fund of Funds Banks... Thought Leadership • 17 March, 2022 crypto cryptocurrency Al Waha Fund of Funds
Regional Mena’s startup euphoria is more fragile than it looks Tarek Sakr is a former investment banker and CEO of Kuwait’s largest classifieds company – 4Sale Market participants are now... Thought Leadership • 07 March, 2022 valuations
Iraq An investor's outlook on Iraq in 2022 Pat Cline is an investment advisor at Five One Invest in Iraq Although the past two years have been tumultuous economically, the Iraqi... Thought Leadership • 07 February, 2022 Kurdistan Region Iraq Five One Labs
Regional How can the GCC countries become digital leaders? Tarek El Zein is a partner with Strategy& Middle East, part of the PwC network The digital economies of GCC countries have... Thought Leadership • 24 January, 2022 GCC Innovation
U.A.E Startups and SMEs can only grow with access to funding Ahmed Mohamed Al Naqbi is the chief executive officer of Emirates Development Bank The UAE government is steadfast in its commitment... Thought Leadership • 12 January, 2022 funding gap
Palestine Fintech: A force for financial inclusion in Palestine Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. This year has... Thought Leadership • 27 December, 2021 Fintech financial inclusion
Egypt Has the Egyptian startup ecosystem “made it”? Michel Assaad is a startup mentor and the vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa strategy at Citi Bank.The views expressed below... Thought Leadership • 13 December, 2021 fawry Swvl Vezeeta
Regional How open banking is changing the payments landscape in Mena Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway, which recently closed a $12 million pre-Series A round... Thought Leadership • 16 November, 2021 Open banking Tarabut Gateway
Palestine Family businesses need to support startups in Palestine Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. In recent... Thought Leadership • 07 November, 2021 family businesses
Global Tech hegemony: Friend or foe? Salwa F. Darraj is a senior consultant at Ernst and Young (EY), where she is the Women’s Network Champion. Darraj is a Member of the... Thought Leadership • 01 November, 2021 Technology
U.A.E Enabling innovation: A blended approach to university education Education is one of the critical elements of an innovation ecosystem. Here, Professor David Sadler, Provost at the University of Birmingham... Thought Leadership • 24 October, 2021 blended learning EdTech
Regional Tourist VCs and their impact on emerging market ecosystems There is a rising number of foreign VCs investing in the Middle East. Of the 10 Egyptian startups that raised investment in September, four... Thought Leadership • 17 October, 2021 Egypt Investment
Regional Women cannot have it all... Julie Nguyen is the founder of Crunchmoms, a professional network based in the UAE for talented, working mothers. There is... Thought Leadership • 12 October, 2021 Women empowerment
Regional Do robots create or destroy jobs? Eugene Kovalenko is the chief commercial officer of Rozum Robotics, the company behind the first robot cafe in the UAE. When it... Thought Leadership • 03 October, 2021 robotics
Regional Should online retailers pay greater attention to men? Leith Mathews is the founder and CEO of UAE-based rokpool, an online platform dedicated to men’s personal care products. Safe... Thought Leadership • 27 September, 2021 E-commerce
Regional Should we care about Philosophy of AI in the Mena region? Aliah Yacoub is an AI philosopher and head of techQualia at Egypt-based Synapse Analytics, a data science and AI company The... Thought Leadership • 19 September, 2021 Artificial intelligence AI
Regional Can data regulation be Mena's competitive advantage? Khaled Lababidi is vice president and general manager of the Middle East, Africa and Turkey, for InCountry – a data... Thought Leadership • 02 September, 2021 Fintech Data regulation
Palestine What does the future generation of Palestinian startups look like? Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. Last month,... Thought Leadership • 31 August, 2021 palestine
Regional The need for edtech in higher education Brendan Vyner, is the director of marketing and student recruitment at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. Covid-19 has... Thought Leadership • 26 August, 2021 Education EdTech
Regional Beauty and the online beast: Driving online sales in the Middle East Nicolas Bruylants is the co-founder and chief visions officer of UAE-based CNNB Solutions, which helps brands to build, operate and scale... Thought Leadership • 22 August, 2021 D2C Beauty
Regional Fintech is poised for consolidation in the Middle East Mahmoud Hamouda is a strategy and operations consultant at Dell Technologies. He is also the head of Dell for Entrepreneurs in Egypt. In... Thought Leadership • 15 August, 2021 Fintech
Egypt Is a virtual demo day better for pitching? Karmah El Naggar is the special projects lead at Falak Startups, an accelerator based in Egypt In February 2020, we were quickly... Thought Leadership • 12 August, 2021 Falak Startups accelerator
Global Lessons for Mena: The rise of bus-sharing in Bangladesh Wes Schwalje is the co-founder of Tahseen Consulting, a boutique consulting, government relations and development firm based in the UAE.... Thought Leadership • 03 August, 2021 mobility buses