Lethbridge joined Commercial Bank in July 2017. In 2023, the Commercial Bank of Qatar reported $45.2 billion in total assets and a net profit of $827 million. It had a market value of $5.8 billion as ...

Tinubu-Karch joined Sidra Medicine in November 2022. Sidra Medicine is an entity of the Qatar Foundation, and fosters precision medicine, education, scientific discovery and research. It works closely ...

El Sayed has been CEO and managing director of ARTIC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Al Faisal Holding, since 2017. ARTIC’s current portfolio includes over 35 hotels and projects in the Middle East and ...

Zainal founded Arzan VC in 2013, before which he worked at the Global Investment House’s private equity department. The firm made its 47th investment in U.A.E.-based ERP provider Hulexo in August 2024 ...

أصبحت منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا مركزًا حيويًا للابتكار وريادة الأعمال، وأسهمت في تشكيل بيئة ديناميكية للشركات الناشئة. وفي العقد ...

I am a staff writer at Forbes covering retail. I’m particularly interested in entrepreneurs who are finding success in a tough and changing landscape. I have been at Forbes since 2013, first on the ...

Mohamad Jad El Fakhani, known as “Wolfofbey” on social media, is the founder and CEO of Beycom LLC, a company that launches, acquires, and invests in online e-commerce businesses. Its subsidiaries ...

The last few months have been tough for listed businesses in the Middle East, with many experiencing a sharp drop in market value due to the coronavirus effect on stock markets worldwide. However, by ...

The startup scene in the Arab world continues to boom, culminating this year in several high value deals. These include the acquisition of Souq. com by Amazon, construction major Emaar Malls buying a ...

Forbes Middle East proudly presents the Top 100 Indian Leaders in the UAE. In addition to trade and investment between the two countries which stands in the multibillions of dollars per year, ...

This past year wasn’t kind to billionaires all over the world. Plummeting oil prices, shaky stock markets and a stronger dollar wreaked havoc on fortunes. In the Arab world, aggregate net worth was ...

Haytham Esmat interned at the Space Telescope Science Institute (operated for NASA by AURA), working on the James Webb Space Telescope in the instrumentation team. In 2020, NASA presented her research ...