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  • What is holding back Qatar’s startup ecosystem?

    This roadmap highlights entrepreneurship as a key pillar of Qatar’s knowledge economy. The government has already executed several projects and initiatives to ease the establishment of startups including two free zones regulated and run by the Qatar Free Zone Authority (QFZA), the Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP), a technology development hub, and the Qatar Fintech Hub (QFTH), a fintech incubator and accelerator.

  • U.S. Power and Influence in the Middle East: Part Seven

    What should the U.S. posture in the Middle East look like going forward? While there is a broad consensus that the last two decades produced few successes, there is less agreement on exactly what the United States should do to produce more successes or if success is even the right metric for U.S. efforts. How should the United States engage with partners in the Middle East, and how should it engage with adversaries? How does the Middle East fit into U.S. global strategy, especially one with an increased focus on Asia?

  • Saudi Arabia shows strong intent to drive a cloud-first, cloud-smart, and multicloud strategy

    While multicloud adoption is rising, these are early days that create some challenges. Both in Saudi Arabia (54%) and globally (49%), respondents mentioned managing security across cloud borders most often as a multicloud management difficulty. Saudi respondents named maintaining consistent performance, second most often, notably more than average, while the task of integrating data across cloud environments consistently ranked in the top three most-mentioned issues among ECI respondents.

  • Saudi food startup raises $ 170 mn from Sequoia Capital India, others

    Sequoia Capital India and Prosus NV have backed a $170 million funding round for Saudi Arabian food and beverage technology startup Foodics, as global investors increasingly seek to back fast-growing firms in the Middle East.

  • Foodics: Sequoia, Prosus Back Saudi Food Startup Raising $170 Million

    Sequoia Capital India and Prosus NV have backed a $170 million funding round for Saudi Arabian food and beverage technology startup Foodics, as global investors increasingly seek to back fast-growing firms in the Middle East.

  • United Arab League suspending Israeli parliamentary participation

    The UAL party members, led by Mansour Abbas, are mostly comprised of Israeli Arabs. Notably, over 20 percent of Israel's population is Palestinian. The UAL was the first party representing Palestinian citizens to ever join an Israeli government and holds four seats in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition.

  • Everything to Know About Saudi Arabia’s Inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in 2023

    Cementing Saudi Arabia’s status as a serious art powerhouse on the world stage, the Diriyah Biennale Foundation has announced its inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale. Taking place in Jeddah in early 2023, this incredible event will showcase the vibrancy of Islamic art, both past and present.

  • CEO steers electric truck startup Rivian through supply chain twilight zone

    Scaringe can't get all the semiconductors Rivian needs to accelerate the assembly lines at its factory in Normal, Illinois. Chip suppliers are skeptical of the young electric vehicle company's capability to hit promised production numbers. They are instead allocating more chips to established customers based on the numbers of vehicles they have built in the past, Scaringe said during a tour of the plant.

  • Raisi says Iran will target heart of Israel if it acts against Iranian nation

    Israel, widely believed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, says it will not be bound by any Iran nuclear deal and could eventually take unilateral action against Iranian nuclear sites.

  • Interior Department to resume oil and gas leasing, charge higher fees

    The department said it plans to open roughly 144,000 acres up for lease next week and will charge oil and gas companies higher royalties to drill on federal land, raising the fees for the first time. Under the plans unveiled Friday, royalty rates would increase to 18.75 percent from 12.5 percent for oil and gas lease sales.