Founders

Buying a home in Dubai is, by any objective measure, one of the most administratively intensive consumer experiences in a city famous for doing...

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...

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...

When Khalid Al Ameri first began posting videos on Facebook from his Abu Dhabi apartment in 2014, the concept of an Emirati man narrating...

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...

There is a particular irony in the fact that Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, the man who disrupted Saudi Arabia's financial sector with a new generation of...

In 2019, Hosam Arab was sitting in a modest Dubai apartment with a whiteboard, a co-founder, and a single conviction: that the GCC's hundreds...

Fadi Ghandour is the founder of Aramex, the logistics and courier company that became one of the Arab world's first technology-enabled businesses to list...

Mohamed Alabbar is the most recognisable name in GCC real estate and e-commerce, the founder of Emaar Properties who built the Burj Khalifa and...

Careem, the ride-hailing superapp that became the first GCC tech unicorn and was acquired by Uber for $3.1 billion, was founded by two unlikely...