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Emrina A.Ş., a Türkiye-based real estate development company, is expanding its activities in Saudi Arabia under the Bayt Al Maqam brand, with a focus on next-generation residential and real estate projects in Makkah.Bayt Al Maqam aims to establish an institutional bridge between local developers in Saudi Arabia and Muslim buyers in Türkiye and other international markets. The company plans to focus particularly on the international promotion, sales organization, and business development of projects located in Makkah’s rapidly developing residential and urban transformation areas.As part of this strategy, Bayt Al Maqam has opened a dedicated sales, marketing, and promotion office in…

Tolga Özdil, Regional Commercial Director, Middle East, Türkiye and Africa (META) at ASUS. ASUS has announced its participation at AI Everything Abu Dhabi from 6–7 October 2026, at ADNEC Centre. Driven by the idea of “Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities,” a wide range of AI-powered business solutions supporting organisations with smarter, more efficient, and secure ways of working will be showcased. “We are pleased to be back at AI Everything and to contribute to the conversation around how AI can deliver practical value for organisations. With businesses across the UAE exploring new ways to adopt AI, ASUS is focused on providing…

The central kitchen operated by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) provided 25,000 hot meals on Sunday to the most vulnerable groups in central and southern Gaza Strip, benefiting 25,000 people. The initiative was carried out as part of the Saudi campaign to provide relief to the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip. These humanitarian and relief efforts, provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through KSrelief, aim to meet the basic needs of affected families and strengthen their resilience in facing the prevailing humanitarian conditions. Source: Riyadh Daily

RIYADH — The Saudi Ministry of Commerce detected foreign workers who had left their sponsors without authorization and were establishing and operating online stores for their own benefit after receiving training at an unauthorized facility in Riyadh. The facility was operated by a foreign investor and two residents in violation of regulations. Based on the ministry’s findings, a joint campaign was carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development and the Riyadh Region Police’s field enforcement authorities at the facility in Riyadh’s Al-Batha district. The facility was providing training on establishing and operating online stores…

A child stepping into Desislava Kouzeva’s school library might be looking for an adventure, an answer to a question or simply a quiet place to spend time. Her first task, she says, is to listen. “The library is not only about shelves with books. It’s about how they make us feel,” said Kouzeva, the librarian at Dubai International Academy, Emirates Hills. “I ask them what’s important to them.” That approach has earned her the 2026 School Librarian of the Year award in the private school category. The Emirates Literature Foundation presented the award at a ceremony at Dubai’s Museum of…

GENEVA — Saudi Arabia reaffirmed that the only path to achieving a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region is the implementation of the two-state solution and support for the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and to establish an independent, sovereign state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Speaking at a general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories during the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Dr. Salem Al-Qahtani, director general of the General Administration of Humanitarian Affairs at the Saudi Ministry of…

RIYADH — Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman met with United Arab Emirates Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Riyadh on Tuesday. During the meeting, they reviewed matters of mutual interest and ways to further strengthen cooperation and coordination between the two countries. They also exchanged views on regional and international developments. Source: Saudi Gazette

Adil Ali, General Manager – Hiperdist Gulf; Wang Jack, Director of Cloud Ecosystem at Huawei Cloud Middle East; and Salman Syed, Senior Channel Sales & Alliance Manager at Huawei Cloud Middle East. Adil Ali, General Manager, Hiperdist Gulf, and Salman Syed, Senior Channel Sales & Alliance Manager, Huawei Cloud Middle East, discuss partner enablement, cloud adoption, and emerging opportunities across AI and data services.  Hiperdist’s appointment as an Authorised Huawei Cloud Distributor for the UAE marks a new phase in the companies’ regional collaboration, extending a relationship established across Africa into one of the Middle East’s fastest-growing cloud markets. The partnership…

 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has developed a computational prototype as part of a research project that uses artificial intelligence to reduce uncertainty in mineral exploration across Saudi Arabia and deepen understanding of geological formations beneath the resource-rich Arabian Shield. The project is led by Professors George Turkiyyah and David Keyes, in collaboration with geophysical imaging experts at the University of British Columbia in Canada. The project attracted the interest of Maaden, Saudi Arabia’s national mining company, which led to a follow-on 30-month research and development contract and a pathway for testing and deployment using actual Saudi geological data.…

For many children in the UAE, the language they hear at home is different from the one they use at school. Parents may worry that learning both will leave their child struggling with each. Dr He Sun, a professor and researcher who studies children’s language learning, says children are capable of learning more than one language from an early age. The more useful question for parents is how to give them meaningful opportunities to use each one. “Children are more capable than your imagination. They can handle two languages since early on,” she told Khaleej Times. “They know which language…