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A passion for technology
Four days after graduating college in Saudi Arabia, serial entrepreneur Albara Hakami founded his first business. Seven years and several companies later and he’s just sold his latest software startup to one of the world’s largest providers of business payments.
Adventure and tranquillity in Arabia
From a vantage point high in the clouds, on a verdant mountain top soaring some 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) above the Arabian Peninsula, Husameddin Al Madani looks down on an unexplored world of adventure, experience and tranquillity.
Resetting ESG for the post-pandemic world
As world leaders mobilise investment capital to fight climate change and secure the economic recovery from Covid-19, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria have never been more prominent.
Life, art, ambition
A love of storytelling and a passion for animation have put Saudi-born special effects producer Jumanah Shaheen on the fast track to Hollywood success.
Saudi Art Star
Part of a dazzling new wave of Saudi artists, Zahrah Al-Ghamdi is delighting international audiences with her poetic and sensitive meditations on memory, loss, and identity.
Capital vision for the Middle East
As the pandemic transforms the daily life of billions of people around the world, the fast-growing Saudi capital of Riyadh is preparing to lead a new era in urban living.
Reinventing Food
Saudi female entrepreneur Deem Al Bassam represents the new generation of innovators changing the way that Saudis eat out and spend their leisure time.
Regenerative tourism takes shape by Red Sea
While the world’s tourism industry labours under lockdown, the visionaries at the Red Sea Project in Saudi Arabia are pressing on with a development that has the potential to transform the world of luxury travel. In November, CEO John Pagano…
Ithra points way to future of creativity
It is a question that is on the minds of everyone who works in arts and culture today. What will happen when the pandemic ends and museums, galleries and cultural centres lift their restrictions? Will visitors return or will the…
Keep on smiling
When historians tell the tale of the modern transformation of Saudi Arabia, they might like to start with the story about a night in Riyadh 10 years ago. On the empty stage of an unassuming cultural center, a young Saudi…