A Cairo-based artificial intelligence startup has released Horus 1.0-4B, a fully open-source large language model built in Egypt that outperforms several ...

A change to one labor rule can ripple far beyond a single page of legislation. That is the central message of a new study examining Oman’s Labor Law of 2023, which treats the law less like a list of ...

Emmanuel Marill will be tasked with expansion of ChatGPT’s parent company in key markets, where political pressure is ...

Why these famous films were banned around the globe. It should go without saying that art is subjective—one person's masterpiece could be another's obscenity. Movies have a way ...

The Turkish-initiated war of words with Israel, which ebbs and flows depending on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ...

Rian Malan writes on the cycle of conquest and humiliation, and the process of coming to terms with the past A day or two ...

Every few months, a new AI model lands at the top of a leaderboard. Graphs shoot upward. Press releases circulate. And t ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts ...

Practically every person in the Middle East has been affected by the chain of events put into motion by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Tens of thousands of people, mostly Gazans, have been ...

Asharq Al Awsat Tourists crowded beneath the Door of No Return, an arch built by the beach at Ouidah in southern Benin in memory of those crammed onto slave ships bound for the New World. Benin, which ...

CAIRO, March 29 - Arab foreign ministers agreed unanimously on Sunday to nominate Egyptian diplomat Nabil Fahmy as secretary-general of the Arab League, succeeding Ahmed Aboul Gheit, whose second term ...