Leading stories of the day
James M Dorsey The Taliban’s record in recent weeks on making good on promises to respect human and women’s rights as well as uphold freedom of the press is mixed at best. Afghanistan’s neighbours…
James M Dorsey The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan perpetuates a paradigm of failed governance in the Muslim world based on a…
Arabian Post Staff UAE headquartered investment group Yas Holding has completed the acquisition of Gulf Inject LLC (GI) from Ras Al…
Matein Khalid The Toast (TOST) IPO will be a spectacular winner on Nasdaq when the restaurant software unicorn finally reaches its…
Matein Khalid Freshworks is going to be the mother of all software IPOs on Nasdaq now that it has filed its…
Arabian Post Staff Swvl Inc., a Dubai-based provider of transformative mass transit and shared mobility solutions, announced that several investors, including…
Matein Khalid It is time that the government and WHO tell the world that the mutations of the COVID virus will…
James M Dorsey Afghanistan is showing the United Arab Emirates the downside of being a haven for deposed leaders and exiled…
By Matein Khalid Mark Twain was so right when he observed that “history does not repeat but it surely rhymes”. In…
By James M Dorsey Abu Omar Khorasani was taken from Kabul’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison and unceremoniously shot. The first and only person…
By Matein Khalid The horrific fall of Kabul to the Taliban is an indictment of both the systemic corruption that plagued…
James M Dorsey Taliban advances in Afghanistan shift the Central Asian playing field on which China, India and the United States…
James M Dorsey Israel’s first post-Netanyahu government is seeking to rebuild fractured relations with the Jewish Diaspora and rebrand the country…
Arabian Post Staff Emaar Malls recorded an increase in net profit by 80 per cent to AED 622 million (US$ 169…
Emirates new advertisement features an Emirates cabin crew member in full uniform standing tall on the tip of the Burj Khalifa…
Performance across Saudi Arabia’s various real estate market asset classes remains mixed. However, the residential market continues to outperform, according to…
Arabian Post Staff Anghami Inc, the music streaming platform and service in the Middle East and North Africa, and Vistas Media…
James M. Dorsey The United States and Iran seem to be hardening their positions in advance of a resumption of negotiations…
James M. Dorsey A recent analysis of Middle Eastern states’ interventionist policies suggests that misguided big power approaches have fueled a vicious cycle…
Despite the recent softer tone for the US dollar, a deterioration in US/China geopolitics and a rise in the delta/lambda variants…
Arabian Post Staff Lucid Group, which is setting new standards for sustainable mobility with its advanced luxury EVs, today became a…
James M Dorsey This month’s indictment of a billionaire, one-time advisor and close associate of former US President Donald J. Trump, on…
Airbnb (ABNB) is one of the great investment regrets of my life since I turned down a chance to invest in…
After an epic fall in 2020-2021 due the coronavirus shock and the subsequent explosion in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet to…
Arabian Post Staff Trump’s former inaugural chairman Tom Barrack has been indicted for illegally promoting the interests of UAE by building…
I believe Brent’s 6% plunge last night to close below 70 for the first time since May is an ideal opportunity…
So I hear from the Valley grapevine that the Robinhood could hit Nasdaq anytime in the next few weeks and the…
In the battle to be the pre-eminent travel hub in the Middle East, the latest research from ForwardKeys, which has the…
