Universities are vital institution of human development, with the MENA region investing heavily predominantly in technology, production and innovation. It’s interesting to view top institutes vital for the regions future development and self reliance. We have ranked the top 30 MENA universities in IT and engineering which are local based than foreign branches of European

The GCC dominates the top 50 list dominant by Saudi Arabia and it’s flagship company Aramco followed by UAE being second on the list. 1. Company Name: Saudi Aramco International Rank: #5 Market Cap: $1.936 T Categories: Oil/ Gas/Energy Country: Saudi Arabia Founded on May 29, 1933, as California-Arabian Standard Oil, Saudi Aramco has grown

According to Qatar’s policy of workforce and fostering economic diversification enhancement, in a strategic move, the Qatar government introduces a new 5-Year residence permit program to attract talented and entrepreneurial individuals. Qatar tries to become the region’s talent and entrepreneurship hub, allowing eligible applicants to use a five-year residence permit program with renewal options. This

The DIFC aka the Dubai International Financial Center has welcomed Napier to lead UK fintech to its innovation hub. It was founded back in 2015 and since then, it has been developing a smart compliance platform for AML along with trade compliance using AI. Their aim is to fight against financial crime threats and reduce

The popular fastest-growing science venture from Egypt, Nawah Scientific has announced its official launch in Jordan. Although this isn’t the first time Nawah is doing business in Jordan since their collaboration with Jordanian universities and scientists has been already established back in 2018 via Nawah’s hub in Cairo. “With a very vibrant and strong scientific

The US government has seized Iranian media outlet domains once more, this time targeting it’s primary international news arm Press TV, it’s Arab news arm Al-Alam and Al Masirah which is a Yemeni TV channel controlled by the Houthis in Yemen. This is the second time in less than 12 months where America has seized

Federal Bank has gone into an essential tie-up with Mashreq Bank to work with cash moves from the UAE to India by supporting the latter’s faster payment product QuickRemit. It was launched back in 2017 and has been fully functional ever since. Because of the association, Mashreq clients can appreciate considerable investment funds just as

The Detroit-and Dubai-based startup, DERQ has recently announced raising a $500k fund from Wadi Makkah Ventures as a feature of a pre-Series A round that incorporated a few other driving worldwide tech, investors and that’s not all. The venture, made in December 2020, brings the all-out reserves raised by the organization to almost $6M until

It was very recently announced that the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has been working with SWIFT which is a worldwide supplier of secure transaction messaging systems. Their goal is to make additional upgrades to the speed and enhance the methods of cross-border transactions and that’s not all. The CBUAE said that it will

FOODICS, a Saudia Arabia-based all-in-one restaurant management platform raised about a $20M Series B funding round at the start of the year. The funding round was led by Sanabil Investments and was also co-led by STV earlier this year. Other investors included Derayah, Endeavor Catalyst, and Elm in the same round. We did have a