GCC Sports Economy 2026: How the Gulf Became a Global Sports Powerhouse
Sport has become one of the Gulf Cooperation Council's most powerful instruments of economic transformation, global brand-building, and soft power projection. What began as...
Editorial: The Gulf SME Gap — Why Small Business Is the Region’s Untapped Engine
The Gulf's small and medium enterprises are the invisible backbone of an economy that likes to celebrate its tallest towers and biggest sovereign wealth...
UAE vs Saudi Arabia 2026: Competing Visions for Gulf Economic Leadership
In 2026, two visions are competing to define the future of the Gulf — and by extension, the broader trajectory of the Arab world....
GCC Tourism 2026: How the Gulf Is Competing for the World’s Visitors
The GCC tourism industry has undergone a transformation so rapid and comprehensive that analysts who wrote off the Gulf as a transit destination barely...
UAE-India CEPA 2026: Trade Volumes, Benefits and Opportunities
The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the UAE and India — signed in February 2022 and implemented from May 2022 — has fundamentally...
