Daily Archives: April 24, 2025

Business & Investments

GCC Family Offices Emerge as New Venture Capital Powerhouses

GCC Family Offices Emerge as New Venture Capital Powerhouses Amid Global Tech Push78 percent of family offices globally plan to invest in digital assets in the next two to three years, redefining the future of private capital

24 April 2025, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Family offices in the GCC are undergoing a significant transformation. Once focused primarily on managing & preserving wealth, these entities are now embracing high-growth strategies that resemble the behavior of venture capital firms. A new report by LOGIC Consulting, titled “Beyond Wealth: How Family Offices Are Shaping the Future of Investment”, reveals that 78 percent of family offices globally are planning to invest in digital assets over the next two to three years. This shift highlights how these entities are moving toward innovation-driven and tech-focused investment models.

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Real Estate

Dubai Land Department strengthens transparency with AI-enabled real estate advertising governance

  • Since its inception, the platform has monitored over 279,000 real estate advertisements across Property Finder, Dubizzle, and Bayut.
  • 29% of the monitored ads were automatically modified on the platforms using artificial intelligence.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 24 April 2025: Dubai Land Department (DLD) announced the outcomes of its AI-powered Real Estate Advertising Governance Platform, which was launched during GITEX 2024. The initiative is part of the DLD’s ongoing efforts to enhance transparency and credibility in real estate advertisements across key marketing platforms, such as Property Finder, Dubizzle, and Bayut. These efforts align with Dubai AI Week’s objectives, which kicked off on Monday, 21 April, and runs until 25 April.

Ali Abdullah Al Ali

According to the latest data, the platform has monitored over 279,000 real estate advertisements across these platforms since its launch; notably, 29% of the monitored listings were automatically modified using artificial intelligence.

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Sharjah International Book Fair

SCRF’s popular cookery corner bubbles with joy… and Boba

Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2025 features workshops that go beyond recipes, equipping children with life skills, nurturing creativity, and fostering independence

Sharjah, April 24, 2025

In the late 1980s, a humble tea shop in Taiwan gave birth to what would become a global sensation: Boba Tea. Today, these chewy pearls have percolated into cultures around the world, captivating palates from London to Los Angeles – and, perhaps most fervently, here in the UAE, where the grab-and-go drink enjoys something of a mass following.

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Sharjah Children Reading Festival

Renowned Emirati and American authors share how to make big ideas simple for young readers at SCRF 2025

Linda Booth Sweeney and Fatima Al Mazrooi get together at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival to discuss how stories can simplify complex ideas, connecting children to values that shape their world


Sharjah, April 24, 2025

At a time when children are navigating an increasingly complex world, authors have a critical role to play in helping them make sense of it all – one story at a time. That was the heart of the conversation on the opening day of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2025) on Wednesday evening during a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring celebrated children’s and Young Adult (YA) authors Linda Booth Sweeney and Fatima Al Mazrooi.

The session, moderated by literary editor and cultural commentator Hala Harb, explored how storytelling can turn subjects like systems thinking, emotional growth, and nature’s interconnectedness into fun, digestible narratives for young minds.

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Sharjah Children Reading Festival

“UAE is a a beautiful country where books bring people together”, says Popular Italian author Elisabetta Dami at SCRF 2025   

Creator of Geronimo Stilton, the beloved cheese-chasing, mild-mannered mouse shares stories, values, and her admiration for Sharjah on the opening day of the annual festival


Sharjah, April 24, 2025

The Reading Corner at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2025 (SCRF) – that opened at the Sharjah Expo Centre on Wednesday – went abuzz as acclaimed Italian author behind the globally adored Geronimo Stilton series wowed children, parents, and teachers alike with a lively and heartwarming reading session.

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