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#MiddleEastTech

The Middle East tech ecosystem is younger, smaller, and more interesting than its coverage suggests, and these posts are a running field report from inside it. I write about the startups building for regional problems that global software ignores, the funding dynamics shaped by sovereign wealth and family offices, the talent that leaves and the talent that stays, and the regulatory experiments, some promising, some alarming, that governments are running with AI and data. The pieces here avoid both the boosterism that treats every seed round as a milestone and the dismissal that writes the region off as a consumer market. There is real engineering happening here, constrained and shaped by conditions that make it distinct, and it deserves to be read on its own terms.