AI strategies, laws, data protection rules and regulators in the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait, with dates and official sources. An EPIC tracker.
What the Muslim Brotherhood is, how it organises, and why the UAE designated it a terrorist organisation in 2014: a sourced Emirati analysis from EPIC.
When a government ministry drafts a policy brief with a foreign large language model, when a schoolchild receives homework explanations shaped by training data collected far from home, and when a public portal answers citizens in…
When artificial intelligence (AI) systems rank, flag, and recommend inside public administration, the philosophically interesting question is not only whether their outputs are accurate but where advice ends and authoritative…
Government AI systems often become permanent by inertia: pilots harden into infrastructure without a scheduled decision to continue. Drawing on the legislative idea of sunset clauses, this policy essay argues that significant…
Gulf states are racing to host artificial intelligence (AI) compute on their own soil while remaining deeply dependent on foreign chips, cloud platforms, and export-control regimes. This study examines that paradox as a strategic…
This article develops the concept of algorithmic wasta to explain how artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tools remake social capital in Gulf labour markets, where intercessory networks have long shaped access to jobs, promotion,…
Arabic is spoken by hundreds of millions of people, but it is not one variety. Arabic speakers write and speak formally in Modern Standard Arabic and live much of their lives in regional dialects that differ widely from it and…
The Muslim Brotherhood presents European democracies with a problem their constitutional traditions were not built to solve. Founded in Egypt in 1928 as a political project, it has operated in Europe for decades through…
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