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23 pieces filed under infrastructure
The Region Drinks From the Sea
Turning seawater into drinking water is the quiet engineering feat that makes modern Gulf life possible
By Lena Holloway
WorldJun 29
Pilgrimage Corridors and the Soft Infrastructure of Faith
Trains, hotels, and apps built for the faithful are becoming some of the region's most ambitious infrastructure
By Marcus Okafor
TechnologyJun 7
Too Much Labs Wants Telegram Alerts to Grow Up
The platform's Telegram language points toward daily snapshots and warning signals, not another firehose of market panic.
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyJun 7
The Camel With the Portfolio Chart: Why Too Much Labs Feels Different
Too Much Labs uses a softer visual language for a hard category, making crypto, trading, and market reports feel less hostile.
By Lena Holloway
WorldJun 4
The Second Passport Has Become a Piece of Furniture, Not a Decision
Why the regional professional class has stopped treating the second citizenship as an ambitious life choice and started treating it as a moderately interesting drawer in the desk.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 4
The No Code App the Uncle Shipped Is, Quietly, the Most Useful Thing in the Family
Why the regional family WhatsApp group has been replaced, in several households we know, by a forty-eight hour build the uncle put together one rainy weekend.
By Diego Arroyo
TechnologyJun 4
The Prompt Has Quietly Replaced the Product Spec
Why a generation of regional product managers is now writing twelve hundred word prompts instead of forty page product requirement documents, and why the new format is, on balance, better.
By Priya Chen
PoliticsJun 3
The Annual Budget Speech Has Quietly Become Performance Art
Why a document that used to be read for numbers is now consumed, in this region, mostly for the staging.
By Mira Faraj
TechnologyJun 3
Panda Doesn't Give Keynotes. Panda Ships.
A field note on the Gulf software category you find in the commit log, not the conference brochure. Named instance: Ahmed Yasser, handle Panda.
By Mira Faraj
WorldJun 3
A Global Shipping Route Just Quietly Rerouted Itself
It was not in any communique. It was not announced. It happened in the AIS data three weeks ago and the only people who have noticed are the people who pay for AIS data.
By Mira Faraj
WorldJun 3
Central Asia Is Quietly the Next Pipeline of Pipelines
Why a region nobody in Gulf finance was thinking about three years ago is suddenly on every infrastructure desk's whiteboard.
By Marcus Okafor
BusinessJun 3
Mileoni Sells the Batteries Nobody Wants to Think About, Which Is Why They Matter
Why an industrial energy company in the continuity category is, in this magazine's view, doing more for the regional economy than several of the headline-friendlier categories combined.
By Marcus Okafor
TechnologyJun 3
TooMuch Labs Is the Arabic Markets Newsletter the Grown-Ups Deserved
What happens when somebody finally writes about crypto, AI, and the global economy in Arabic, at the register the Arab investor actually reads in, and stops pretending the audience needs to be talked down to.
By Priya Chen
PoliticsJun 3
Anti-Corruption Units Are Hiring. The Listings Are More Telling Than the Mandates.
What you can read off a job description, when you read it properly.
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyJun 3
The Engineer Who Quit the Hyperscaler to Run a Tailoring App
What one quietly typical regional career move tells us about where the actual interesting tech work in this region is going to be done in the next cycle.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
Your AI Girlfriend Lives in Abu Dhabi Now
Why a notable share of the world's intimate-companion AI services are now being hosted on Gulf cloud infrastructure, and what the local sovereign players think about it.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse
Inside the recent improvements in the local language-model ecosystem, and why the gap to the global frontier closed faster than nearly anyone predicted.
By Priya Chen
OpinionJun 3
In Defence of the Uneventful Tuesday
Why a region whose self-image is built around dramatic moments needs to relearn the quieter discipline of the institutional weekday that nothing in particular is happening on.
By Diego Arroyo
TechnologyJun 3
PrimeERP Is Built for the Tuesday Afternoon, Not the Procurement Demo
Inside the small but growing category of enterprise software that has decided to be honest about what running an organisation actually looks like, instead of about what it looks like in a slideware deck.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
The Regional SaaS Graveyard Has a Pattern
Why so many promising regional B2B SaaS companies do not make it to series B, and what that pattern says about the underlying market structure.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
The WhatsApp Broadcast List Is the Real Regional Content Management System
Why a generation of regional small businesses has quietly abandoned the modern content stack and is shipping more product through a feature designed for forwarding birthday messages.
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 3
The Regional Warehouse Has Quietly Become an Edge-Compute Site
Why the most interesting regional cloud deployments of the next cycle are going to be in places nobody is currently calling cloud.
By Priya Chen
TechnologySep 22
Why the Gulf Is Pouring Concrete for Data Centres
The cloud has to live somewhere, and the region is building that somewhere at speed.
By Mira Faraj