Abdullah Al-Salloum·2d agoManaged from AfarThe ancients understood that contest is the engine of transformation. It overturns hierarchies: followers become leaders, and the powerful…
Abdullah Al-Salloum·Jul 13Non-Oil Exports… Please!As has become customary, no sooner had the Council of Ministers approved, at its latest meeting, the draft decree-law adopting the state’s…
Abdullah Al-Salloum·Jul 6Every Word in Its Rightful PlacePraise be to Allah, who has poured upon us from His blessings, placed calm and prosperity among us, and granted us enough for today and…
Abdullah Al-Salloum·Jun 29Beyond AccountabilityThought is often unsettled. It moves, at times, toward horizons of expectation, and at others into shadows of pessimism, until it is…
Abdullah Al-Salloum·Jun 29Beginnings Do Not SufficeOver the past two decades, a different kind of logic has seeped into institutional thinking and social culture: a logic that carries little…
Abdullah Al-Salloum·Jun 17The Orbit of Symbolism.. From One Era to AnotherThere is a repetition that accelerates with every era. It resembles an orbit around a vast circle, except that its circumference narrows…
Abdullah Al-Salloum·Jun 8The IPO Wave: Between Growth and ExitA company’s decision to list is often read as a sign of maturity. It suggests that the business has grown large enough, organized itself…
Abdullah Al-Salloum·Jun 3On Disciplining Debate: Kuwait and the Age of Difficult CalmA calling for a more disciplined public debate between forced optimism and suspicious pessimism, and for a fair reading of reform.
Abdullah Al-Salloum·Jun 3The Gulf beyond the ‘energy surplus’A reflection on the Gulf’s future through energy surplus, beyond oil prices, production volumes, and the usual post-oil debate.
