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The King Abdullah Financial Centre (KAFD) in Riyadh on December 1, 2024. Reuters

Building the future: Gulf states pave the way to diversification

More than $75bn of construction projects were awarded in Gulf states last year, with much more expected, but the cranes across Riyadh, Muscat, and Dubai are building more than just skylines.

Neil Quilliam 26 July 2025
India and the Gulf States have a thriving economic relationship. Shutterstock

India and the Gulf: ancient trading ties still flourishing today

From dhows carrying spices to tankers carrying oil, trade between South Asia and Arabia has been healthy for hundreds of years, with room to grow further.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 08 July 2025
People visit the Global Logistics Forum in Riyadh on October 13, 2024. Fayez Nureldine / AFP

Can non-oil sectors shape the future of Gulf economies?

Sectors such as tourism, manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare have the potential to continue growing as a share of the Gulf states' overall revenue and to provide employment for the future

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 04 May 2025
A couple watch the sunset at the Red Sea resort of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, December 20, 2023. AFP

Generous Gulf pension benefits may soon be a thing of the past

With populations living longer and oil income expected to start tailing off, the region's recent largesse may need adjusting, as funding for changed demographics could soon become unsustainable

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25 September 2024

Major EU-Gulf trade boost revives talk of reducing barriers

With $175bn worth of annual business between the two blocs, a free trade deal seems only sensible, yet visas and vested commercial interests remain obstacles.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25 April 2024
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud (R) and Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Hu Chunhua attend the 10th Arab-China Business Conference in Riyadh on June 11, 2023. AFP

China and GCC steadily grow economic ties amid challenges

Both China and the Gulf have much to offer one another, especially with the Gulf's thirst for big infrastructure projects and China's thirst for carbon.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 28 February 2024
This 2013 pictures shows the destroyed Khaled bin Walid mosque in the al-Khalidiyah neighbourhood of the central Syrian city of Homs. AFP

Syrian reconstruction will only come from Syrian realism

Analysis of the diplomatic movement regarding Syria including the positions of Gulf states, Syria's neighbours, world powers, and Turkey

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 25 April 2023
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (2nd R) welcomes US Vice President Joe Biden (C) at the Riyadh airbase on October 27, 2011, upon his arrival in the Saudi capital with a US official delegation to offer condolences to the King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz following the death of his brother, Crown Prince Sultan. BY AFP/GETTY IMAGES.

Biden’s Middle East Return Shows Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher

When U.S. President Joe Biden finally arrives in the Middle East in mid-July, it will be 18 months since he assumed office. They say a week is a long time in politics. A year and a half in the…

Dalia Ziada 24 June 2022
Abdelkader Zaoui

Iran Becoming Nuclear State Threatens Regional Balances

The eighth round of talks between Iran and major powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal kicked off on December 27 in the Austrian capital of Vienna. Tehran is holding direct talks with the P4+1…

Abdelkader Zaoui 11 January 2022
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