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Cities must embrace strategic foresight and adaptive governance
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Cities of all sizes across the Middle East are facing a mounting array of pressures – and, increasingly, outright crises.
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MENA : fragile but sustained economic recovery in 2026
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Improvement in the MENA region economy is also supported by a slight rebound in agriculture and tourism in some energy‑importing countries, partially compensating for the slowdown seen in developing oil exporters, where conflicts and reduced production continue to weigh on growth.
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If the AI bubble bursts, will MENA startups survive?
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Is there an AI bubble? From the head of Google’s parent company to officials from the Bank of England, many fear that the AI’s growth is being driven by massive investment and hype, similar to the dot-com boom . . . .
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City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress
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When structural engineers design a building, they aren’t just stacking floors; they are calculating how to win a complex battle against nature.
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Sustainability and resilience
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Sustainability has become the construction industry’s defining challenge. From embodied carbon accounting to net-zero targets, contractors, designers and material suppliers are all grappling with ways to lower emissions while keeping projects on budget and on schedule.
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Africa’s biggest dam turns Ethiopia into a regional power hub
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With national installed power capacity now reaching 9.6 gigawatts, the dam is transforming Ethiopia from a power-constrained economy into an emerging regional electricity hub, supplying energy to domestic industry while expanding cross-border power connectivity across the Horn of Africa.
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Global population living with extreme heat expected to double by 2050
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A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels—a scenario that climate scientists see as increasingly likely.
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Tourism offers a golden opportunity for MENA countries
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.Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa region should be viewed through the prism of strategic significance. This is because tourism is one of the most dynamic sectors when it comes to the regional economy.
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Hospitality skills can help all businesses adapt to the AI revolution
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The future of work is being rewritten by artificial intelligence (AI) – but technology competence alone will not be enough to empower the workforce of the future.
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