2026 World Cup: football in the age of AI

From 3D players to data-transmitting balls, the sport's biggest tournament is awash with technology to help with everything from offside decisions to viewer angles, but does this come at a cost?

Marco Mossad

Iran’s Virus Diplomacy

The coronavirus has hit the Middle East at a time when the region is already burdened with a series of long-running conflicts, economic crises, and political unrest. The first Covid-19 deaths in the…

Yasmine El Geressi

The Coronavirus and EU Divisions?

Back in February of this year, Health ministers from the EU 27 held a summit where they discussed the Coronavirus outbreak. German health minister, Jens Spahn, had praised the EU member states’…

Ali El Shamy