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In late November, during a conversation that would have ended with a shrug in any other year, I became aware…
There is a certain type of ambition that doesn’t go unnoticed. You start to realize that what’s being built here…
Last month, I was sitting in a coffee shop near Abu Dhabi’s corniche when a wealth manager I know slid…
When Bitcoin moves 30% in a week, a certain silence descends upon a trading desk. Not quite panic. It’s more…
Most travelers never take the time to look twice at a certain landscape on the road north of Riyadh. Beige,…
When NASA made its announcement in early February, it sounded almost professional. The agency’s engineers were planning an unmanned Starliner…
Over the past two years, Riyadh has experienced a low hum that doesn’t quite fit the city’s traditional rhythms. It’s…
Last week, the atmosphere at cryptocurrency trading desks had a peculiar dual quality that was equal parts déjà vu and…
On most weekday afternoons, a certain type of conversation takes place at a cafe in Dubai’s DIFC. Two individuals, one…
It begins to feel less like a museum and more like a prospectus in the visitor hall of the Mohammed…