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...
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...
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...
