Culture & Society
Abhishek Mishra Leaves DPIFF After Ten Years, Closing a Chapter in India’s Cinema-Festival Landscape
After a decade at DPIFF, Abhishek Mishra has announced his departure, bringing a long period of leadership continuity…
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Culture & Society
From Cannes to Jeddah: How Film Festivals Are Redrawing the Geography of World Cinema
Legacy festivals still define prestige, but new institutions across Asia, India and the Arab world are changing where…
Middle East
From Mumbai to the Middle East: Sundeep Kochar and the Global Journey of Vedic Guidance
Sundeep Kochar’s international career reflects how Indian traditions travel through diaspora communities and acquire new meanings in modern,…
Technology & AI
The UAE Is Building an AI Infrastructure State
Abu Dhabi’s expanding data-centre capacity and partnerships with OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia and G42 reveal a strategy that treats…
Business & Economy
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 Enters Its Value-Realisation Phase
Saudi Arabia is moving from rapid scale-building to value realisation. The decisive question is whether state-led investment can…
Geopolitics & Diplomacy
Syria Diplomacy Returns under Security Pressure after Damascus Blasts
Explosions near a diplomatic hotel during Macron’s visit showed both the ambition and fragility of Western re-engagement with…
Middle East
Gaza’s Sanitation Crisis Shows Why Reconstruction Cannot Wait for Perfect Politics
Sewage, pests and collapsed services are turning Gaza’s humanitarian emergency into a public health threat that governance talks…
India–GCC
Maritime Energy Resilience Study Recasts the India–Gulf Corridor as a Risk System
New modelling of chokepoint disruption places strategic inventories, alternative routes and corridor planning at the centre of energy…
Energy & Infrastructure
Qatar Gas Disruption Research Shows Asia’s Exposure to Gulf Supply Shocks
A new scenario study argues that disruption in Qatar’s gas sector can ripple unevenly through importers, with India,…
Technology & AI
Desert Data Centres Put the Middle East’s AI Ambition under a Sustainability Test
As Gulf states compete for AI infrastructure, energy efficiency and cooling strategy are becoming strategic questions, not technical…
Technology & AI
GCC Workforce Readiness Becomes the Missing Link in the Region’s AI Build-Out
Research on Gulf AI strategies suggests regulatory coherence and skills may matter as much as capital expenditure on…
Technology & AI
Saudi Arabia’s GenAI Adoption Shows the Next Vision 2030 Challenge Is Skills
New research points to wide use of generative AI in Saudi Arabia, but also uneven understanding, privacy concerns…