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21 pieces filed under trade
Gulf and South Asia Business: A Closer Look at Economic Ties
Exploring the intricate economic relationships between Gulf nations and South Asian countries, focusing on trade flows and investment.
By Rasha Karim
BusinessJul 16
Gulf-South Asia Trade Corridor: An Economic Lifeline Amidst Global Uncertainty
Amid global economic volatility, the Gulf-South Asia trade corridor continues to flourish, bolstered by strategic partnerships and resilient market dynamics.
By Rasha Karim
WorldJul 1
The Frankincense Road and the Memory of Trade
The ancient perfume route still lingers in the region's ports, palates and sense of its own history
By Sara Qureshi
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 Free Zones Are Growing Up
Built to attract anyone, the region's free zones are now choosing whom they want to become
By Diego Arroyo
WorldJun 30
The Indian Ocean Was Always a Single Market
Long before borders and passports, the monsoon stitched three continents into one breathing economy
By Sara Qureshi
BusinessJun 29
The Spice Trade Never Ended. It Just Changed Hands.
The old routes that built the region's wealth still run, now wearing the clothes of containers and commodity desks
By Priya Chen
BusinessJun 29
The Region's Airlines Are Really Infrastructure Bets
The flag carriers are less about flying than about wiring a small geography into the center of global trade
By Lena Holloway
BusinessJun 28
Free Zones and the Architecture of Ambition
How the special economic zone became the region's signature instrument for importing growth, and where it quietly runs out of road
By Priya Chen
WorldJun 28
The Indian Ocean Is Quietly Becoming the Center of the World Again
For centuries the ocean linking the Gulf, East Africa, and South Asia was the heart of trade, and it is quietly returning to that role
By Sara Qureshi
OpinionJun 18
Small Businesses Need a Shipping Buffer
Regional uncertainty makes delivery promises harder. A visible buffer can protect customers, cash flow and reputation.
By Diego Arroyo
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
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
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
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
WorldJun 3
The Diaspora Is Banking Differently. The Banks Have Not Quite Noticed.
Why the remittance corridor between a particular pair of countries is being quietly disintermediated, and what the incumbent banks are doing about it, which is mostly nothing.
By Lena Holloway
WorldJun 3
The Embassy Iftar Is the Most Underestimated Instrument of Regional Foreign Policy
Why a single carefully assembled guest list, served on a single carefully assembled plate, can do more strategic work in three hours than a year of communiques.
By Lena Holloway
WorldJun 3
North African Renewables Are Quietly Becoming a Gulf Investment Story
Why several Gulf funds have started buying meaningful positions in renewables projects across North Africa, and what the local governments are doing about it.
By Lena Holloway
PoliticsDec 2
One Market, Six Flags: The Long Road to a Gulf Single Market
The idea of a unified Gulf economy with seamless trade, shared rules and even a common currency has been pursued for decades with halting results.
By Mira Faraj
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