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20 pieces filed under logistics
How the Region Built the World's Airline Hub
By turning geography into strategy, a handful of carriers made the region the world's connecting point
By Marcus Okafor
BusinessJul 1
The Old Spice Road Is Reborn as Logistics
The routes that once carried cardamom and pepper now move containers, and the region is again the world's crossroads
By Lena Holloway
BusinessJun 30
The Hidden Economy of the Pilgrimage Road
Around the great seasonal journeys has grown a sophisticated economy of hospitality, transport, and trust
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 29
Drone Delivery and the Last-Mile Dream Over the Desert
Sparse distances and ambitious regulators are turning the region into an unlikely proving ground for delivery that flies
By Sara Qureshi
WorldJun 29
The Hajj Is the World's Largest Logistics Operation
Moving several million people through a few square kilometers in days is among the hardest logistical problems on earth
By Mira Faraj
BusinessJun 10
Logista's ~$570M Exit, and the Engineer Who Made the Trucks Talk
How a Gulf-built fleet-management platform turned tracking vehicles into a half-billion-dollar business, and the co-founder and CTO, Ahmed Saleh, behind its engine room.
By Marcus Okafor
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
WorldJun 4
The Airport Transit Zone Is Now the Region's Most Underrated Soft Power Instrument
Forget the embassies. Forget the cultural attaches. The first impression of a country is now formed in the eight minutes between the jetbridge and the connecting gate.
By Mira Faraj
PoliticsJun 4
The Municipal Council Is Where the Region's Actual Politics Lives
Everyone watches the cabinet. The interesting fights, the real careers, and the durable policy shifts are happening one floor below.
By Lena Holloway
WorldJun 3
The Suitcase Economy of the Arrivals Hall Is Bigger Than the Trade Statistics
Why a quietly enormous category of regional cross-border commerce is moving in passengers' checked baggage, and why nobody who tracks trade data is counting it.
By Mira Faraj
BusinessJun 3
The Family Office Buying Spree Has Moved Down the Supply Chain
Why the next four acquisitions you read about in this region will be smaller than the last four, and quieter, and in categories you did not expect.
By Marcus Okafor
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
OpinionJun 3
In Praise of the Boring Conference
Why the regional conference circuit's best moments happen, increasingly, at the dullest events nobody wants to put on the highlight reel.
By Diego Arroyo
BusinessJun 3
SD Media and the Middle of the Content Sandwich
Why everybody talks about who makes the content and everybody talks about who streams the content and almost nobody talks about the unglamorous middle layer that decides whether either of those works. With one named example.
By Diego Arroyo
BusinessJun 3
Qatar's Sovereign Allocators Are Doing Something Funny With Real Estate
Why a quiet allocation shift inside one of the region's most disciplined funds is being read, by other allocators, as a signal worth copying.
By Marcus Okafor
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
WorldAug 2
The Squeeze Points: How the Gulf Sits Astride Global Trade
A handful of narrow waterways near the Gulf carry an outsized share of the world's energy and goods, which is both a blessing and a vulnerability.
By Sara Qureshi
BusinessAug 2
noon, Amazon.ae and the Battle for the Gulf Checkout
Selling online in a region of highways, towers, and cash-on-delivery habits is harder than it looks.
By Diego Arroyo