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...
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...
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...
