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  • Banking and Finance
    Saudi Arabia dominates $881m MENA IPO market during Q2

    More than $880m was raised in the Middle East and North Africa through nine IPOs during the second quarter of 2018

  • Saudi Economy
    MENA Country Report Saudi Arabia 2018

    Although the gradual implementation of “Saudi Vision 2030” should be the driving force of medium-term growth of the non-oil economy, many obstacles remain.

  • Careem
    Careem’s Mudassir Sheikha And Magnus Olsson On What’s Next For The MENA Unicorn

    In a chat with Entrepreneur Middle East, the co-founders of Careem discussed the road ahead for the company, which includes presenting more affordable options in terms of transport and car pooling choices, a better platform based on seamless infrastructure, and of course, establishing themselves to new cities to further provide new jobs and expand their enterprise.

  • Deep State of Mind
    Deep States in MENA

    The "concept traveling" of the deep state from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to the United States is one of the few cases of an even quasi-social-science term originating there and then being generalized.

  • U.S. MENA Exports
    U.S. Exports to MENA Region a “Mixed Bag” in 2017

    The overall trend in the region was downward, with MENA’s biggest markets for U.S. goods – the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia – each experiencing a drop of approximately 10 percent (totaling $4.12 billion in year-on-year losses).

  • Arabian Gulf Center for Iranian Studies
    New Saudi think tank ranks 28th globally and 10th in MENA

    Saudi based Arabian Gulf Center for Iranian Studies (AGCIS) has been ranked in the 2017/2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report 28th world-wide and 10th in the Middle East and North Africa.

  • MENA Conflict
    Commentary: Instability in the MENA Region, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Key Conflict States: A Comparative Score Card

    It has long been all too clear that the U.S. has gradually built up the military capability to help local powers defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq without having strategy for dealing with the host of other problems that exist in bringing any kind of lasting stability to the region. We are effectively fighting "failed state wars" in ways that only address half the problem.

  • Water
    Urgent action needed for water sustainability in MENA

    Water scarcity has always been a major challenge in the mostly arid MENA region. However, overdrawing of ground­water compounded with climate change, high rates of population growth and the effects of con­flicts and forced displacement have jeopardised the region’s stability and the livelihood of generations to come.

  • MENA Instability
    Instability in the MENA Region, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Key Conflict states: A Comparative Score Card

    "Nation building" has become a remarkably unpopular concept in U.S. policy circles since U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is important to note, however, that the fact that U.S. failed to "transform" Afghanistan and Iraq—just as it failed to transform Vietnam—does not mean that it can ignore the reality that military force and security assistance can only deal with half the problem—and that military force and security assistance only become useful after a given state's stability has degenerated to the point where there is civil war or a major security challenge.

  • MENA M&A
    Mergers And Acquisition Deals Back On MENA’s Agenda

    The latest Capital Confidence Barometer report from EY finds that 47% of MENA executives expect deal activity to increase in the next year. In the first quarter of 2017, there were 80 M&A transactions on the go, versus the average number of 100