From left to right: Jose Mas, his father Jorge Mas, Lionel Messi and Sir David Beckham pose after the 2025 MLS Audi Cup final between Inter Miami and Vancouver Whitecaps at Chase Stadium on December 6, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Elsa/Getty Images Football has long played a secondary role in the American sports landscape, … Read more
Egyptian actress Salma Abu Deif Featured She is among the faces of the new Loewe campaign launched earlier this week, marking the 180th anniversary of the Spanish luxury house, joining a group of international figures chosen to represent the brand’s legacy of craftsmanship. Photographed by New York-based artist Talia Chetrit, Anniversary campaign It brings together … Read more
The Internet was not originally created with privacy as a primary consideration. Every time users visit a streaming website and access content to cloud-based services or communicate over the Internet, their data passes through multiple networks and servers. As concerns about digital privacy continue to grow, Internet users in the MENA region are becoming increasingly … Read more
As insurers withdraw from markets vulnerable to climate change, governments and investors are quietly abandoning the assumption that systems can return to their old equilibrium. Photo by Jeff Gretchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images In 2018, California’s insurer of last resort transferred nearly 127,000 policyholders. By the end of 2025, it carried more than … Read more
A new atmosphere seems to be emerging across today’s global biennials that is grounded in immersion, affect and a carefully calibrated sense of experience. Photo: Alessandro Brasile, courtesy Diriyah Biennale Foundation Recent controversies surrounding major biennials suggest that these exhibitions are anything but neutral cultural platforms. The 2022 edition of documenta, curated by the Indonesian … Read more
After a year of tariffs reshaping global trade, beverage brands face a more fragmented, price-sensitive and unpredictable market. Unsplash+ A year after the latest wave of US tariffs reshaped global trade, the beverage industry is still absorbing the aftershocks. Scotch whiskey exports to the United States have It decreased by 15 percentEuropean wine imports were … Read more
Kat Graham had her family by her side during a special night at Global Citizen NOW this week. The actress and singer attended the event on May 14, 2026 alongside her husband, Bryant Wood, and the couple’s baby son, Prospero “Spero” Nyemah Wood. Embed from Getty Images Graham shared photos from the appearance on Instagram … Read more
ninji omoko, Assembly2020. Oil on Sanyan. Thanks to the artist In Nengi Omoko’s painting Assemblya wounded figure lies on a stretcher, his body falling on what appears to be shards of rubble, surrounded by a group of figures with amorphous faces. A small hand is raised as if to bless the injured person as he … Read more
In 2003, a newly established subsidiary of Telecom Egypt called Xceed began its first contact center operations in Cairo, handling customer-facing communications for global companies. Its early contracts were straightforward: inbound voice support, handled in Arabic, English, and French. At the time, India, China, and Malaysia dominated the global outsourcing conversation, with Egypt not even … Read more
The growth in cross-border payments exposes deeper vulnerabilities in how money is financed, transferred and settled. Unsplash+ Liquidity has become the litmus test for the scalability of cross-border finance. In the last quarter of 2025, Visa began Testing new financing models To move money across borders without relying heavily on pre-funded accounts. Recently, MasterCard moved … Read more