Something has changed if you stroll through any upscale pharmacy in Dubai on a weekday afternoon. The diabetes and metabolic health section’s shelves move more quickly than they did in the past. Customers and pharmacists have longer, more technical conversations. Drug names that most people in the area couldn’t pronounce even two years ago are becoming more and more familiar. Ozempic. GLP-1. Tirzepatide. In the UAE, the vocabulary of a quiet medical shift has permeated daily life and is progressing more quickly than the healthcare system had anticipated. The announcement made by Abu Dhabi in June 2025 may be the…
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The King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh doesn’t seem like the birthplace of international tech regulations. Footsteps are absorbed by the thick carpets. Besides the translation headsets are half-finished coffee cups. Attendees lean forward and pay close attention as presenters go over a topic that was previously thought to be solely Californian: the proper conduct of artificial intelligence. Silicon Valley is not the source of this conversation. In collaboration with the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority has started to develop an ethics charter that goes beyond governing AI in the…
On a Monday morning in early March 2026, the leadership team of the Chalhoub Group personally visited the Dubai Mall lobby to see how the employees who had consented to come in were doing. In Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, store attendance was made “voluntary”—a term that conveys a sense of the mood. The shops in Bahrain were just shut down. The vice president of communications for Chalhoub, which runs 900 stores in the area for companies ranging from Versace to Sephora, sent a cautious and measured message: employees who felt at ease came in. The others…
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