Grow Inc.Arabia Staff Holding Their Ground: Anthem Hospitality Group Co-Founders Robby Ce... As the operators of the recently launched Barrafina in Dubai, Ceriale and Gerschel offer a snapshot of how the UAE's hospitality sector is contending with the ongoing uncertainty in the country.
News Inc.Arabia Staff talabat UAE To Offer 100 Rent-Free Cloud Kitchen Spaces To Homegrow... The initiative aims to empower F&B brands in the UAE by reducing cost hurdles to their operations and growth, while also giving them access to scalable infrastructure.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff 8 Practical Ways To Run Your Business Through Uncertain Times Chiara Spina, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD, shares insights for a more structured, deliberate way of navigating disruption.
Grow Yasmine Abdelkhalek Without A Corporate Village, We Lose Working Mothers When organizations create environments that support parents, they are doing more than meeting a social expectation; they are protecting the nation’s human capital.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff 5 Supply Chain Experts On How Companies Can Navigate Iran War Disru... With prices volatile and key shipping routes at risk, here’s where companies should look first to understand exposure and limit damage.
Lead David Ribott A Contingency Plan Without A Cash Buffer Is Not A Plan In volatile markets, resilience is built when boards and leadership teams leave enough financial room to absorb disruption without forcing panic or value-destructive decisions.
Grow Ankita Dhawan When Conflict Hits Home: A Guide For Digital Businesses In The GCC “Conflict, grim as it is, compresses the timeline between invention and necessity.”
Grow Yasmine Nazmy Runway Equals Resilience: Why (And How) MENA Entrepreneurs Should R... Inc. Arabia spoke to ADNOC Drilling CFO Youssef Salem and Shorooq Founding Partner Shane Shin to secure insights that offer a pragmatic lens on navigating volatility.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff The ENTERTAINER’s “Our Home. Our Heart.” Initiative To Support UAE... The ENTERTAINER founder and CEO Donna Benton told Inc. Arabia that the initiative has led to the redemption of nearly 100,000 of its buy-one-get-one-free offers at venues across the UAE.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff From The Investor Desk: Silicon Badia’s Hossam Shafick On What MENA... “In uncertain markets, relationships become a real strategic advantage. Founders who invest in them early will always have more options when the environment tightens.”
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff From The Investor Desk: VentureSouq’s Sonia Weymuller On What MENA... “The companies that endure are those designed to survive shocks... Growth still matters, but resilience is what allows you to keep growing if and when the market tightens.”
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff From The Investor Desk: KBW Ventures’ Ekta Tolani On What MENA Foun... "A strong business focuses on elevating customer service—it is important to retain clients, no matter the scale, to help you in good and bad markets."
Lead Aby Sam Thomas As The MENA Marks International Women’s Day Amid Regional Volatilit... Careem’s Shaden Khallaf says female leaders need to be more than just participants in this region’s transformation; they have to be its architects.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff From The Investor Desk: Wamda Capital’s Fares Ghandour On What MENA... “The uncertainty that lowers other people's appetite for this market is precisely what creates room for those of you who choose to stay.”
Lead Randall S. Peterson Adaptability Over Strength: A Practical Guide To Leadership Under P... Major crises over the past two decades, from the global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, have reinforced a simple lesson: survival depends less on size or dominance, and more on agility.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff From The Investor Desk: Pact VC’s Lucy Chow On What MENA Founders S... “I advise all SME and startup founders to focus on riding out the long-tail effect that this geopolitical situation will have on their businesses.”
Lead Inc.Arabia Staff From The Investor Desk: Plus VC’s Hasan Haider On What MENA Founder... "I think the most important thing to give yourself and your team time and space to adjust, and settle in to a new normal."
Grow Yasmine Nazmy Paradigm Shift: RiseUp Summit’s Abdelhameed Sharara On How His Egyp... “Today, every youth, not just from Generation X or Gen Z or Gen Alpha even, they all want to start something or even to work with a startup; so, that’s a massive change.”
Grow Devina Divecha Sweet Success: How Brooki Bakehouse Founder Brooke Bellamy Is Scali... After securing an AED60 million (US$16.34 million) investment from UAE-based property developer Arada, Bellamy is all set to take the brand that she launched in Brisbane in 2022 beyond Australian shores.
Grow Laurie Drummond Aligned Over Hustled: The New Definition Of Ambition For Women Aged... Sisterhood Collective founder Laurie Drummond explains how women at 35+ are creating leadership models that don’t require them to cosplay as their male counterparts.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff Why Even Brilliant Leaders Freeze On Stage—And 4 Ways To Prevent It Controlling your private panic will help you to protect your personal brand.
Grow Anas (Andy) Abbar Earned Vs. Paid Media In The MENA: The Model Is Broken, And We Need... The question is not whether earned media still exists. The question is whether we are brave enough to redefine it.
AI Everything Mark Minevich Humanoid Robots Will Be Bigger Than Artificial Intelligence—And Bus... The question is no longer whether humanoid robots will reshape the global economy. It is whether the people in charge are ready.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff How To Build A Business Where Failure Fuels Growth Encouraging employees to do the one thing they’ve been conditioned not to do could bring the best out of them.
Startup Lorenzo Jooris From Setup To Scale: A Practical Founder’s Roadmap For Launching, B... In the global race to attract founders, Qatar has quietly moved from emerging to intentional.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff By Competing In The A2RL Drone Championship, Technology Innovation... “My message to all Emirati women is to be patient, be strong, [and] work hard. You are the author of your story—make it remarkable.”
Lead Anas (Andy) Abbar Dubai Is More Than A Location, It’s A Brand In a city built on clarity, ambition, and trust, the strongest brands are not the ones that borrow the name—but the ones that make it stronger by association.
Technology Aby Sam Thomas The Power Of Proximity: WHOOP's John Sullivan On Why His Boston-Hea... "We saw a real opportunity to build something meaningful, not just expand our presence in the Middle East, but contribute to the ecosystem long-term."
News Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi-Based Shorooq Launches US$200 Million Fund Backed By Qata... Shorooq Founding Partner Mahmoud Adi told Inc. Arabia that this new fund is "not about chasing momentum—it’s about compounding institutional quality into companies that are ready to operate at public-market standards.”
Grow Yasmine Nazmy Oola’s Haya Al Ghanim On How Stepping Back Made Her A Better Founder The founder of the Qatari modest sportswear brand oola shares how a hiatus led her to move from building with urgency to building with clarity.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff Microsoft’s Mirna Arif On Career Growth, Perspective, And “Getting... "The learnings from the path are way, way, more valuable than those from you just getting what you want.”
Innovate Stiven Muccioli From Experimentation To Execution: In Qatar, Fintechs Are Being Bui... Qatar has laid down the ideal groundwork, and now, it’s the fintech industry’s turn to ensure that innovation can actually be deployed, scaled, and sustained.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff Meta's Moon Baz On Why Confidence Is The Most Underrated Career Skill For Baz, leadership has been shaped less by certainty and more by the courage to act despite doubt, trusting that growth follows commitment.
Grow Inc.Arabia Staff Here’s How To Design Meetings Around How Human Brains Actually Work... Stop stacking your meetings like dominoes. Build them like systems.
Grow Hesham Mohamed Sound Finances, Steady Growth: Seven Habits That Keep Startups Aliv... In the end, the strongest startups aren’t necessarily the ones with bigger balance sheets, but those with clearer sightlines.