Lusail City: Qatar’s Smart Urban Development Model and Its Business Lessons
Lusail City, located 15 kilometres north of Doha, represents Qatar's most comprehensive demonstration of smart city principles applied at urban scale. Built entirely on...
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...
GCC Commodities Markets: Beyond Oil, Gold, Petrochemicals, and Agricultural Trade
The Gulf Cooperation Council countries collectively control some of the world's most strategically important commodity markets. While oil and natural gas remain the dominant...
Expert View: The Evolving Role of GCC Sovereign Wealth Funds in Global Markets
Expert Analysis, Gulf Times NowThe Gulf Cooperation Council is home to some of the world's largest and most sophisticated sovereign wealth funds, collectively managing...
Saudi Aramco and AWS Sign Cloud Transformation Partnership for Digital Oilfields
Saudi Aramco and Amazon Web Services have signed a multi-year cloud transformation partnership. It moves Aramco's oilfield operations, reservoir management systems and upstream data...
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Formula 1’s Most Glamorous Race and Its Economic Impact
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, held at the spectacular Yas Marina Circuit, has become one of the most coveted races on the Formula 1...
NEOM’s Innovation Districts: Saudi Arabia’s Blueprint for a Technology-Driven Future City
NEOM is perhaps the most ambitious urban development project in human history, a $500 billion city being built from scratch in the northwest corner...
GCC in the World: How Gulf Nations Are Shaping Global Affairs in 2025
The Gulf Cooperation Council countries have never been more active, or more influential, on the global stage than in 2025. Once content to operate...
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup: How GCC Cricket Nations Are Competing on the Global Stage
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup has become the landmark event around which cricket nations in the GCC calibrate their development ambitions. For UAE...
Abu Dhabi or Dubai: Key Differences for Residents, Professionals and Investors in 2026
For internationally mobile professionals, families, and investors considering a move to the UAE, the choice between Dubai and Abu Dhabi is one of the...
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...
The Rise of Saudi Arabian Football: Al-Hilal, the Saudi Pro League and Global Ambition
Saudi Arabian football has undergone a transformation of extraordinary speed and ambition, propelled by Public Investment Fund backing and a strategic decision to position...
