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  • 19 Newcomers Join Forbes Middle East’s Top 50 Most-Funded Startups 2022

    Forbes Middle East has released its annual list of MENA's Top 50 Most-Funded Startups, celebrating the mission-driven young businesses attracting investor attention. Combined, the 50 startups on the 2022 list have raised $3.2 billion in funding, up from $3 billion in 2021.

  • 19 Newcomers Join Forbes Middle East’s Top 50 Most-Funded Startups 2022

    Forbes Middle East has released its annual list of MENA's Top 50 Most-Funded Startups, celebrating the mission-driven young businesses attracting investor attention. Combined, the 50 startups on the 2022 list have raised $3.2 billion in funding, up from $3 billion in 2021.

  • Commentary: Morocco’s World Cup victories are historical revenge for subaltern dreamers from the global south

    Modern soccer was codified in nineteenth-century Britain and soon became a European favorite. The collective sport turned into a global sensation with the creation of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and organization of the first World Cup in 1930 in Uruguay. Soccer remains a largely euro-centric sport today, supported by professional leagues, media, and capitals in the old continent with outliers in the Americas. Thus, soccer culture is linked to iconic players who built their careers in Spanish, British, Italian, and other European teams. It is also largely associated with ritualistic beer drinking, ultras chanting, and shots of beautiful white models featured on television screens.

  • The world cup is not a MERS superspreader event

    The sensationalist headlines about MERS are stoking all sorts of extreme reactions among readers. The very name of the disease is problematic, as it associates the virus to a location, adding stigma and causing confusion. One of the largest outbreaks of MERS was in South Korea, where 200 people got sick in 2015. Because of this risk, the UN recommends not naming pathogens after locations, although MERS pre-dates such guidelines.

  • Yemeni farmers turn to planting wheat as prices bite

    Some Yemeni farmers have turned to planting their own wheat as global disruptions dent imports and send prices soaring in Yemen where a seven-year conflict has pushed people deeper into poverty and left millions hungry. Farmer Khaled Maasar said most Yemenis cannot afford foreign wheat with prices rising to some 20,000 riyals, equivalent to $33. Food price inflation had already doubled in just two years in some part of the country.

  • Egypt’s farmers are using apps to fight climate change

    The looming threats of climate change and food insecurity, plus the hype surrounding the COP27 climate summit is drawing in more investors into Egypt.

  • Swizz Beatz Is Opening An Immersive Roller Rink In Saudi Arabia

    Swizz Beatz is ready to rock in Saudi Arabia. The producer/musician and his Good Intentions creative agency co-founder, Noor Taher, are onto their third project together —  this time teaming up with the Royal Commission of AlUla to create the FIRST EVER immersive roller rink experience in Saudi Arabia, AlUla on Wheels, with music curated personally by Swizz. As part of the AlUla Wellness Festival, guests will glide under the twinkling desert stars in the art-centric AlJadidah district this October.

  • Saudi’s Amaala to open immersive marine life centre

    John Pagano, CEO of TRSDC, said it is a “first-of-its-kind facility that extends far beyond any existing marine life attraction”. “With 10 zones that provide everything from AR experiences to night diving, and spaces for the scientific community to effectively progress their environmental projects, the Marine Life Institute is undeniably unique,” Pagano said. Designed to resemble the Red Sea’s coral formations, the institute will cover an area of more than 10,000 square metres. It will provide panoramic views of the Red Sea.

  • Majid Al-Futtaim, Dreamscape launch immersive VR destination in Saudi Arabia

    A leading Middle East and Africa retail, leisure, and entertainment company has launched a first-of-its-kind virtual reality experience in Saudi Arabia. As part of a regional partnership, Majid Al-Futtaim and Dreamscape VR entertainment company recently inaugurated the immersive VR attraction on the first floor of Riyadh Park Mall, next to VOX Cinemas. The opening comes three years after Dreamscape debuted in the Middle East at Mall of the Emirates in Dubai.

  • Inflation-Scarred Consumers Fire Up Turkey’s Economy by Spending

    Turkey’s economy lurched forward at a faster rate than expected, as the highest inflation in 24 years prompted consumers to bring forward purchases in anticipation of steeper prices ahead.