What does inflation mean
Inflation is a term that is often used in the economic and financial world, but what does it actually mean? In short, inflation is the general increase in prices for goods and services...
From Dhows to Bytes: Kuwait’s Cultural Evolution With Technology and Innovation
Modern technological progress is constantly redrawing the world's countries as the key to 21st-century growth and new-age modernity. In the Kuwaiti situation, such growth is firmly founded on a solid tradition, the archaic...
From Desert to Oasis: How Israel’s Water Conservation Initiatives Resound Internationally
By Yael Ben-David ~ Where deserts previously towered as a threat for dry climates and unpredictable rains, Israel has turned the dictum on its head: it has fashioned scarcity into means to irrigate surfeit. Through advancements in water desalination, water-conserving irrigation, and green recycling, Israel has turned its natural limitations the water-saving model for the world. What was needed became a clarion call to the nation—a culture of innovation that pinches pennies on every ounce. A Thirst for Innovation Since Israel's inception, all the way back to 1948 when it was founded, its survival had been doubtful at least partly because it was entirely open to aridity. It's largely a half-arid country,...
Made in Iraq: Home-Made Products Power the Economy
By Yasir Al-Dulaimi ~ In a basement workshop in Erbil, copper is hammered and soldered and the ring comes off like a pulse. Coffee sets...
Almost no one uses Bitcoin as currency, new data proves. It’s actually more like gambling
John Hawkins, University of Canberra - Bitcoin boosters like to claim Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, are becoming mainstream. There’s a good reason to want people to believe this. The only...
Tech for Good
Jordanian Apps Solve Global Real-Life Issues By Hala Al-Momani ~ In trendy Weibdeh district cafes and start-ups in Amman, an open welcoming office space has young coders shoulder to shoulder in rows facing computer screens. Coffee surrounding them, code on the screen, mission in front of them — they are not coding phone applications. They are coding solutions to some...
Tech Grasps Hold: Iraq Startups Illuminate an Electronic Future
By Omar Al-Khalidi ~ In one of Baghdad's tiny co-working spaces in Karada, the soft buzz of laptops and sighs of collaboration are heard. Under the sheen of fluorescent lights, clusters of young Iraqis...
Bahrain Grand Prix Invoked Tourism and Technological Advancements: On the Road to the Future
By Layla Al-Hashimi ~ The Formula One Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix is not just a world sporting event at...
