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The Next Arabian Renaissance is Here

Riyadh Expo 2030 Announced I’m a westerner and I spent seven years of the previous decade in the United Arab Emirates. The news of Riyadh winning the bid to host World Expo 2030 came as no surprise at all. The volume and speed of societal progress recently has been barely comprehensible in the Kingdom and […]

Saudi Foundation Invests $1 Billion a Year in Human Longevity

For years, the conversation about global population has been about our impending inability to feed ourselves, because there’ll be too many of us. Then the narrative changed to the reverse; a population implosion and the average age of humankind reaching into the non-productive 60’s. These have been the headline grabbers. And they’ve been legitimate, too. […]

Saudi Arabia Invited to Join BRICS

Maybe the Alliance will Actually Achieve Something Now If I walk out into my garden and look towards the north west, I can just see in the distance the location of the BRICS conference, where Saudi Arabia has been invited to join BRICS. It sits smack bang in the middle of the richest square kilometre […]

Empowering Regional Creativity

I’ve known Heather McDonald, one of the two protagonists of this article, for the better part of a decade. The impression she made on me, and doubtless, the whole media industry in the UAE was pure dynamite. As head of Filmmasters MEA, she had vision and an uncompromising attitude towards quality in both the films […]

KSA’s XVRS: Cognition at the Heart of the Metaverse

The future is cognitive, and NEOM is here to ensure it. And despite being a project in KSA, it is actually a global project above all else. But NEOM’s projects go beyond the realm of reality to delve into one of this era’s main focal points, the metaverse. But a little more complex. In fact, […]

KSA’s Newest LEAP

Saudi Arabia is Nokia’s biggest market in the Middle East and Africa, and it plays a significant role in society in the nations where it does business. Accordingly, Nokia sees Saudi Arabia as a crucial market. The company is dedicated to offering the most cutting-edge technologies. Including 5G. To help the country develop a robust […]