Turkey Gaming
The National, Turkey’s gaming start-ups raise more than $1bn over five years to outpace Mena region, 16 Sep 2023 “The $1.2 billion attracted by these companies during the five-year...
MENA AI Biometric Concerns
Cathrin Schaer, Deutsche Welle, AI-enhanced identification: A danger in the Middle East?, 23 Aug 2023 “The use of digital biometric identification — recognizing people by their unique features —...
New & Noted: “Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users”
This looks interesting: Charles, M., Friedland, R., Afary, J., & Yang, R. (2023). Complicating Patriarchy: Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users in the Middle East, North Africa, and South...
African Arabic
Vaughn Rasberry, New Lines Magazine, In Search of African Arabic, 30 September, 2021 I missed this article the first time around: “For more than a millennium, Arabic in Africa...
MENA Podcasts
Arab News, Swedish Acast partners with MidEast podcast networks Sowt and Kerning Cultures “Podcasts are an estimated $6 billion market opportunity in MENA and have largely gone untapped. We’re...
Iraq: 20 Years On
Jeremy Bowen, BBC News, Iraq war 20 years on: How invasion plunged country into decades of chaos, 20 March 2023 “It is a sign of how bad the past...
‘Digital Islam and Muslim Millennials’
Zaid, Bouziane, Jana Fedtke, Don Donghee Shin, Abdelmalek El Kadoussi, and Mohammed Ibahrine. 2022. “Digital Islam and Muslim Millennials: How Social Media Influencers Reimagine Religious Authority and Islamic Practices”...
MENA FinTech
Alvin R. Cabral, The National, Demand and public initiatives ‘to drive digital payments in Mena’ , 31 May 2022 “Consumer demand and government initiatives will boost the Middle East...
Jeddah’s Digital Art Museum
The National, Borderless: what to expect from Jeddah’s new digital art museum “The first permanent teamLab Borderless museum in the Middle East broke ground last month and the project...