The Emirates Literature Foundation and Seddiqi Holding are celebrating a major milestone for First Chapter, the ELF Seddiqi Writers’ Fellowship, with the launch of The Squatters, the debut novel by former fellow Saba Brelvi. The novel marks another significant success for the programme, which has spent five years nurturing emerging writers and helping bring new literary

UAE businesses spent five times more on AI in Q3 2026 than in the same quarter last year, according to the first ever Pemo SME Spend Index. The new quarterly index from Pemo, the UAE spend management platform trusted by more than 10,000 businesses, is built on millions of anonymised business transactions. It shows where UAE

Ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference, co-hosted by the UAE and Senegal in Abu Dhabi this December, Abdulla Balalaa, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Energy and Sustainability, called for water resilience to become a central priority in economic and investment planning, emphasising the need to connect water, energy, technology, and finance to drive

H.H. Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Development and Fallen Heroes’ Affairs, has met with Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, on the sidelines of his participation in the NDTV World Summit 2026 in New Delhi. During the meeting, the two sides discussed

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that the UAE economy will grow by 7.7% in 2027, an increase of 2.4 percentage points compared to its forecasts issued last April, highlighting the country’s substantial financial buffers, advanced infrastructure, and economic and technological capabilities that strengthen its readiness to seize future growth opportunities and address regional

One of the region’s leading innovation festivals, “Baku ID 2026,” held on September 17-18 at SABAH.city innovation city, has concluded. The two-day programme brought together local and international speakers, including Balázs Hendrich, Head of the Representation of the Organization of Turkic States in Hungary; Khamis Said Abdalla, Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held an expanded meeting with Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India, during his working visit to Mumbai. The meeting reflected the two countries’ shared commitment to strengthening their strategic relations and growing bilateral cooperation