Next week, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is due to meet with GCC leaders at a summit in Bahrain to talk about what the post-Brexit future will look like for relationships with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and other neighbors in the region. Read More »

To visitors in downtown Dubai, the results of rapid innovation are evident: smart city infrastructure blinks behind glass windows. Read More »

A new e-commerce platform from IKEA Saudi Arabia will help regional customers get furniture products from the popular Swedish store directly to their doorsteps. Read More »

A real estate community in the emirate of Ras al Khaimah is attracting a lot of attention from overseas investors and others looking to settle on the Persian Gulf coast. Read More »

Observing the efforts of countries around the world to keep up their infrastructure, experts are noticing that these kinds of investments tend to pay off very well. Read More »

New advances in clean energy are making big headlines in the GCC, as United Arab Emirates (UAE) leaders discover they have reached the critical mass point where it is now cheaper to produce a unit of energy from the sun than from oil. Read More »

The time-honored Muslim holiday of Ashura still has quite an effect around the globe: on Wednesday, Oct. 12, Islamic communities and individuals observed this holy day, the 10th day of the month of Muharram. Read More »

While consolidating the city's position as a vibrant cosmopolitan regional hub — aiming for various green energy and sustainability standards and generally modernizing the quality of life in this coastal Persian Gulf region — Dubai planners are also looking to leverage new technologies to better industry and commerce. Read More »

As the gulf country of Qatar gets a look at first quarter numbers for 2016, officials are finding that the GDP rose in that time period by only 1.1 percent, much lower than the 2.7 percent growth in the last quarter of 2015. Read More »

A company called Vincitore Real Estate Development LLC is making a grand entrance into the city of Dubai with the Vincitore Palacio project, a 135 million AED residential community with a per-unit cost of 475,000. Read More »

Egyptian citizens are decrying the quick monetary changes implemented by the federal government, and the impact they have on their lives. Read More »

A pilot project in Qatar aims to address the fight against diabetes and other serious health conditions in the region. Read More »

A new national privacy and data protection law is in the works for the Gulf nation of Qatar. Read More »

As GCC countries start looking at the real impact of the coming Value Added Tax (VAT), planned for the beginning of 2018, the country of Oman is realizing that it may have quite a lot of extra revenues to manage even as financial pressures threaten the region. Read More »

Hospitals, medical resellers and patients in the country of Egypt are having big problems. Read More »

In preparing for the 2022 World Cup, Qatari officials are trying to placate international parties with concerns about the labor force needed to pull off this enormous event in a country historically criticized for labor abuses. Read More »

The long-running conflict threatening to throw world nations into proxy warfare in Yemen seems to be winding down, as officials announced a ceasefire, planned for Nov. 17. Read More »

Earlier this month, at the annual conference of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Finance Institutions (AAOIFI), participants looked at a preliminary study for centralized sharia boards in order to regulate finances in GCC nations. Read More »

As the international oil relationship between Saudi Arabia and its long-time customer the United States starts to chill, and the dynamics of the world oil market change, Saudi leaders are looking at the future of oil and gas administration through the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Read More »

Seeking to impose standards on the meat used for various Muslim festivals and traditions, the Dubai municipality is promoting a new web application called Al Mawashi that residents can use to preorder meat from government slaughterhouses. Read More »