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Visitors stand in front of works by Bybit on display during the 15th edition of Art Dubai at Madinat Jumeirah in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, on March 10, 2022. - Art Dubai, the Middle East's largest annual contemporary art fair, featured for the first time digital works, as the wealthy Gulf emirate seeks to position itself as a crypto-assets hub. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)
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Technicians work at the headquarters of the Israeli company 1MRobotics, in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on, January 11, 2023. - Behind a seemingly ordinary storefront in Tel Aviv, the Israeli company is speeding up online shopping by replacing staff with robots that manoevure around small, streetside storerooms. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Middle East joins the global supercomputer competition

David Rosenberg
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A worker operates a production line panel in a production hall at the Agrana food factory in the Egyptian capital Cairo on October 11, 2016. Agrana is an Austrian multinational company which processes agricultural commodities into industrial products, with a joint-venture in fruit preparation in Egypt. / AFP / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED (Photo credit should read MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images)
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Egypt’s bid to localize electronics manufacturing starts to pay off

Marc Español
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A worker is seen at the Kuwait Global Steel Services factory in Kuwait City on December 5, 2018. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP) (Photo credit should read YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Gulf industrialization potential gains traction

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Steel workers walk at the Iran National Steel Industrial Group facility in Ahvaz in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province on December 22, 2020. (Photo by Reza SOLEYMANI ROUZBEHANI / ISNA / AFP) (Photo by REZA SOLEYMANI ROUZBEHANI/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Will Iran’s mining sector become key contributor to economic diversification?

Bijan Khajehpour
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An Israeli worker walks between solar panel rows laid out at a farm on the outskirts of Moshav Haspin in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on January 8, 2023. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Green-tech demand to unlock more deals for Israel in Middle East

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Cars queue before embarking on ferries bound for Tangier at the Algeciras port on July 27, 2019. - Thousands of Moroccan nationals working and living in Europe pass through the Strait of Gibraltar as they return to spend summer holidays in Morocco. (Photo by JORGE GUERRERO / AFP) (Photo credit should read JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Morocco to accelerate transition to EV manufacturing 

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Saudi Arabia’s film industry ready to boom, but won’t lack drama 

Samuel Wendel
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A farmer inspects plants in a cannabis field in the village of Azila in Morocco's Ketama region at the foot of the marginalised and underdeveloped mountainous region of Rif on September 16, 2022. - High in the hills of northern Morocco, vast cannabis fields are ready for harvest, but farmers complain that a government plan to market the crop legally is a slow burner. The marginalised region has long been a major source of illicit hashish smuggled to Europe while Moroccan authorities, wary of social unrest,
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Morocco's share in formal cannabis market to remain minimal despite reforms

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