Category: Military and Technology

  • Qatar Foundation University. Qatari woman Student building a robot for the botball competition. arabianEye FZ LLC / Alamy Stock Photo. Sylvie Van Roey/phocal Media. 13 June 2016.

    Artificial Labour Markets in the Gulf

    Recent Al advancements have dominated news headlines as the world debates how to integrate artificial intelligence into our lives and workplaces. Within the Middle East, these debates are particularly prominent in the Arab Gulf where governments are committing huge investments to AI. According to Qatar’s National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, an AI-augmented workplace – whereby […]
    Zoe Davies/
    May 22, 2024
  • The Soyuz MS-18 rocket is launched with Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy, Friday, April 9, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

    Emerging space power in Central Asia: Kazakhstan at the crossroad

    After the disintegration of the USSR, Kazakhstan inherited a significant technological artefact of the Soviet space program, the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The management of the spaceport, from which the historically significant Sputnik 1 was launched, was transferred to Russia through a lease agreement from 1994 till 2050. However the Kazakhstani leadership had remained committed to the […]
    Nelly Bekus and Zhomart Medeuov/
    May 22, 2024
  • Baghdad, Iraq. 10th Jan, 2020. Anti-government demonstrators wave a huge Iraqi national flag during a demonstration in Tahrir square, against the breach of Iraqi sovereignty by the US and Iran. Credit: Ameer Al Mohammedaw/dpa/Alamy Live News.

    How Iraq became Iran’s cash cow

    With the October 2021 Iraqi Parliamentary elections recording the lowest ever voter turnout in post-2003 Iraq, there is little doubt that Iraq’s yet-to-be-announced next government already faces a legitimacy crisis. Amid the problems that Iraq faces in overcoming its domestic challenges, there is a massive driver of its cyclical political system in neighbouring Iran of […]
    Bamo Nouri/
    May 22, 2024