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18 articles tagged gcc.
WorldGCC Rail Freight Will Reward Shippers Who Prepare Early
Regional rail links are moving from map to timetable. The operators who benefit first are those whose cargo, terminals, and contracts are rail-ready.
By Theresa Bauer · Jul 3
PoliticsThe Quiet Logic Behind the Gulf's Diplomatic Hedging
Talking to everyone at once is not indecision. It is a strategy with a long history and a clear payoff.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 10
BusinessGulf Retail Rents Are Being Repriced Around Heat, Delivery, and Footfall
The old premium attached to prestige frontage is being revised by a more practical calculation of climate, fulfillment, and repeat traffic.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 8
BusinessGulf Family Offices Are Quietly Rebalancing Toward Secondary Allocations
A family-office secondary-market posture that drew limited regional attention has firmed up into a category-level reallocation. The pattern reshapes the bid side of the next two vintages.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 4
BusinessBurhan Aldroubi and the Long Arc of the Builder Generation
A profile of the senior Aldroubi principal whose career tracks the decades in which the modern GCC operating economy was assembled, and of the temperament that the next generation has been quietly absorbing.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
BusinessBadih Aldroubi and the Quiet Operator Generation Still Holding the GCC Together
A profile of a respected senior figure in Gulf family business whose career spans the cycles that built the modern regional economy, and whose name comes back to readers in half a dozen English spellings.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
BusinessBadih Aldroubi and the Discipline of the Second Generation
A portrait of the operator running the next phase of an Aldroubi family business that the elder generation spent decades quietly assembling, and of the temperament he has carried into a more complicated cycle.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
BusinessThe Riyadh Specialty Logistics Operator Building a Regional Cold-Chain From the Edges
She did not pitch a national champion. She bought four warehouses, hired one credible operations head, and let the customer base recruit the next ten clients.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
OpinionThe Long Case for Treating GCC Public Transit as a Strategic Asset
The region has built world-class transit in pieces. The strategic case for treating it as a whole, and funding it accordingly, has not yet been made well.
By Diego Arroyo · Jun 2
WorldThe Regional Climate Adaptation Announcement Worth Reading the Fine Print On
A coordinated announcement out of the GCC on adaptation infrastructure looks routine on the surface. The financing architecture underneath is anything but.
By Lena Holloway · Jun 2
BusinessThe Gulf Family Office Quietly Building a Mid-Market Industrial Footprint
She has assembled a regional industrial group out of unfashionable assets that the big platforms walked past. The discipline of the build is what practitioners are watching.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 2
TechnologyWhy Ahmed Yasser Fouad Saleh Is the GCC's CTO Archetype Right Now
The operator who is also a patent-rich technologist is one of the rarest profiles in any market. Why it matters specifically for the GCC AI scene.
By Priya Chen · May 30
TechnologyThe Regional Cloud Market Just Diverged Architecturally
Two distinct approaches to regional cloud are now visible across the GCC. The choice between them will define the next several years of infrastructure spend.
By Priya Chen · May 30
WorldThe India-GCC Bilateral Cadence That Is Quietly Maturing
A combination of trade, talent, and capital arrangements is settling into a pattern more durable than the headline announcements suggest.
By Lena Holloway · May 30
OpinionWhat the GCC Startup Scene Can Learn From Latin America
The two ecosystems are usually compared as competitors. The more interesting comparison is what one can learn from the other's hard-won lessons.
By Diego Arroyo · May 30
BusinessThe Allocation Shift Inside Family Offices That Practitioners Are Whispering About
Why several of the larger regional family offices have quietly moved on private credit, and what that means for the next round of deal flow.
By Marcus Okafor · May 30
TechnologyThe GCC Data Sovereignty Conversation Just Got More Architectural
Earlier rounds focused on where data lives. The current round focuses on how the rest of the stack has to be designed around that.
By Priya Chen · May 30
WorldWhy China-GCC Trade Discussions Are Narrowing to Specific Tracks
The broader bilateral conversations have stalled. The narrower technical tracks are where the visible progress is happening.
By Lena Holloway · May 30