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CEO Sami Khoreibi sheds light on how solar power is taking over the grid. His company, Enviromena, is spearheading the way for this hot technology in the Middle East. The future is now, according to Sami Khoreibi, CEO of Abu Dhabi-based Enviromena. With a growing list of large-scale sol…
In the Arab world, conflict and poverty too often limit access to schooling. Maysa Jalbout, chief executive of a billion-dollar foundation, is determined to change that for thousands of struggling youths, one student at a time.
As Wikipedia – the free, open content digital encyclopaedia created through the collaborative effort of a community of online users – celebrates its 15th anniversary, its co-founder, Jimmy Wales, says his dream is that every single person on the planet has free access to knowledge. Acco…
In a world awash with crude, drilling nears completion at southern Azadegan, the region's largest oilfield. After years of sanctions, the struggle to bring new production online is etched across the ageing infrastructure.
At last year’s Davos World Economic Forum, John Defterios caught up with the Managing Director and CEO of King Abdullah Economic City, Fahd Al Rasheed, so we could learn more about their 100 billion USD megaproject in Saudi Arabia that’ll one day span an area the size of Washingto…
In 2004, Studio Libeskind, with Zaha Hadid Architects and Arata Isozaki, won the redevelopment of an abandoned thirty-six-hectare plot that once held the Fiera di Milano. Their bold master plan seems quietly touched by the Middle East.
A seed was sown when a Paris-based tech company, founded by Lebanese data scientist Rand Hindi, turned down a lucrative US contract to build useful technology ethically. Now they seek to free us from digital enslavement.
Abdlatif Youssef Al-Hamad's career has glittered: an honours graduate of Claremont McKenna and Harvard, a Kuwaiti delegate to the United Nations, then Director-General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development and, briefly, a government minister.
When it comes to Arab titans of business, we’re all familiar with the Ghosns, Slims and Hayeks of this world. I would assume you’re also aware of others like Lubna Olayan and Nemir Kirdar. You may even know that Steve Jobs is among our greats given that he was the biological son of a Sy…
In a world where powerful women are still too often defined by powerful men, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is refreshingly her own person. John Defterios meets the architect of her country's economic reforms.
Collaborating with such designers as Paul Smith, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, The Rug Company, spearheaded by Suzanne and Christopher Sharp, do not make modern rugs per se. Rather, they make beautifully handmade traditional ones that embrace a contemporary aesthetic. It isn’…
Developers once champed at the bit to break ground on Oman's integrated resort towns. Despite the global financial crisis and the Arab Spring, two of the Sultanate's most ambitious projects are still plodding on.