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Sufian Bayram

Middle East and Africa regional manager at Techstars Ahmad Sufian Bayram. (Courtesy of Ahmad Sufian Bayram)

Refugee entrepreneurs creating financial value across the world

Khadija Hamouchi

Khulud Abu Homos

TV and film production veteran Khulud Abu Homos. (Courtesy of Khulud Abu Homos)

The changing face of region’s TV landscape

Khadija Hamouchi

MENA

(L-R) Broadcast Journalist May Bin Khadra, Vice-President of EMEA, PSB Rob Vance, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund Jihad Azour and President of ASDA’A BCW Sunil John. (Courtesy of Arab Youth Survey)

Arab youth survey reflects ‘need for new social contract’

MENA

Visitors attend a panel at the Travel Tech Show at the Arabian Travel Market. (ATM)

Technology redefining MENA’s travel industry

N.P. Krishna Kumar-16163

Religions

Christian worshippers attend the Good Friday epitaphios procession outside the 10th century Greek Orthodox Church of St George in the Old Cairo district of the Egyptian capital on April 26, 2019. (AFP)

Persecution of Christians seen on the rise in Middle East

Ramadan

Students partake in the mid-day prayer during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic Boarding School in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

Month of Ramadan fasting for many Muslims begins Monday

pan-Arabism

Tourist photos on display next to a poster of late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (C) in a shop at a tourist bazaar in Luxor. (AFP)

Is pan-Arabism a lost cause?

Internet

English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, delivers a speech during an event at the CERN in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday March 12, 2019. (AP)

The internet’s 30th anniversary

water scarcity

Secretary General of the Arab Countries Water Utilities Association Khaldon Khashman speaks at the opening of the Fifth Arab Water Week in the Dead Sea. (ACWUA)

Resilient water sectors needed in arid MENA region