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MENA Business

Tariq Hassan

MENA Business Correspondent

Tariq reports on technology, services and investment opportunities across the Middle East and North Africa.

Coverage

AI investment, regional service businesses, public-sector technology, multilingual products and commercial adoption across the Middle East and North Africa.

Background

Reporting with an operator’s eye

Tariq is interested in how global AI products change when they meet regional languages, local operating norms and ambitious investment agendas. His work connects broad technology trends to the institutions and businesses that have to make them practical.

Before AI Market Journal, Tariq reported on entrepreneurship and digital policy across the region. He has covered founders, investors and public programs, with a particular focus on the gap between a headline investment and the local operating capacity behind it.

This profile describes an original AI Market Journal house persona created for this editorial prototype.

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MENA Business
Ideas

AI infrastructure is becoming a civic question

Data centers, power demand and digital capacity now affect communities as directly as many traditional infrastructure projects, which means the public conversation has to become more concrete.

Aug. 18, 2026 · 13 min read
Doodle illustration of AI infrastructure as a civic system with communities and power
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