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Ronaldo Mouchawar: How Souq.com Became the Middle East’s First Billion-Dollar Exit
The founder story of Ronaldo Mouchawar, who built Souq.com into the Arab world's largest online marketplace and sold it to Amazon in 2017 for about $580 million.
Majid Al Futtaim 2026: Inside the Emirati Empire Behind Mall of the Emirates and Carrefour
Majid Al Futtaim company profile 2026: the Emirati conglomerate behind Mall of the Emirates, Carrefour across 38 markets, Ski Dubai and VOX Cinemas explained.
Inside the UAE’s Most Powerful Conglomerates: Al Futtaim, Majid Al Futtaim and Emaar
The UAE's economy is shaped significantly by a small number of extraordinarily large and diversified private conglomerates that have grown over decades to become...
Reem Asaad: The Saudi Woman Who Changed Labour Law with Facebook, Then Built a Tech Leadership Career
In 2009, when a Saudi woman used Facebook to campaign against a retail labour regulation, the likelihood that it would change a decades-old national...
Nayla Al Khaja: The UAE’s First Female Filmmaker Who Put Emirati Cinema on Netflix
When Nayla Al Khaja decided to study film in Canada on a UAE government scholarship, cinema was not a profession that Emirati women were...
Jad Antoun: Fixing the Most Painful Transaction in the UAE, One Mortgage at a Time
Buying a home in Dubai is, by any objective measure, one of the most administratively intensive consumer experiences in a city famous for doing...
Nora Al Matrooshi: The UAE’s First Female Astronaut and the Mission That Goes Far Beyond Space
When Nora Al Matrooshi completed her NASA Astronaut Candidate Training Programme in 2024 and received her astronaut pin, becoming the UAE's first female astronaut...
Sky Kurtz: Growing Tomatoes in the Arabian Desert, How Pure Harvest Changed the GCC’s Food Security Story
The idea of growing fresh tomatoes in the middle of the Arabian desert, in temperatures that regularly exceed 45°C, sounds like an agricultural thought...
Mohamad Ballout: The Lebanese-American Who Turned Cloud Kitchens Into a SoftBank-Backed Global Empire
In January 2018, Mohamad Ballout and three co-founders launched a company with a premise that many in Dubai's restaurant industry considered absurd: instead of...
Khalid Al Ameri: The Emirati Who Turned Storytelling Into a Stanford-Backed Global Business
When Khalid Al Ameri first began posting videos on Facebook from his Abu Dhabi apartment in 2014, the concept of an Emirati man narrating...
Dr. Sara Al Madani: The Emirati Entrepreneur Who Started at 15 and Never Stopped Building
Most entrepreneurs point to a university project, a failed job, or a late-night idea as the origin of their first business. Dr. Sara Al...
