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Healthspan is the new GDP
There’s a moment in Hevolution’s new Global Healthspan Report 2025 when the data stops reading like a scientific snapshot and starts looking more like an economic warning.
Inside the making of the city of Earth
In the valley of Wadi Hanifah, on the western shoulder of Riyadh, one of the most ambitious urban projects on the planet is rising from the desert.
The making of a music city
There’s a moment when Soundstorm hits critical mass—not when the first act comes onstage, but when the entire crowd syncs into one collective frequency.
Building Saudi’s next chapter
“We want to do our part in a meaningful way,” says Anis Alhabshi, vice president of Arabian Dyar. “To provide housing for Saudi citizens that feels real, family-oriented, and aligned with Vision 2030.”
Living the vision
On Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, investors are not just buying homes—they are buying into an idea of the future.
SOUNDSTORM accelerates the tempo
There are festivals, and then there is the moment a city flicks from ordinary reality into a huge humming circuit board of sound.
Where heritage meets progress
In the ochre light of dusk, the mud-brick walls of Diriyah glow like embers against the desert sky. From afar, it looks ancient — a fossil of Arabia’s past — yet the closer you walk, the more the illusion breaks.
A global movement for healthy humanity
Something big is happening in global health, and it didn’t start in a lab. It started in Riyadh.
The Southward shift of AI
The sands of Riyadh were warm, but the atmosphere inside the grand hall of FII9, the annual gathering hosted by the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute, felt hotter.
Riyadh’s rise as Esports capital
You could feel the switch flip this summer. The Esports World Cup 2025 in Riyadh wasn’t just another tournament — it was a seven-week celebration that drew more than three million visitors to Boulevard City and confirmed that gaming has…