MENA Market Watch

About the show

MENA Market Watch

MENA Market Watch is APH's monthly read on the Middle East and North Africa as one of the most strategically important commercial regions of this decade. Every issue is built from the ground in the region: we work with reporters and operators based across the GCC and North Africa, plus diaspora investors and Western desk heads with skin in the game, to put together a brief on the trends, investments, regulatory moves and strategic plays worth tracking. The brief covers Saudi Vision 2030 and its operational reality, UAE diversification, Egyptian and Moroccan capital markets, Africa-MENA trade corridors, sovereign wealth fund activity, family office structures, and the specific founder, fund manager and corporate moves that signal where the next round of capital is going. MENA Market Watch is read by people who need a structured monthly view they can trust — not a press release feed, not a thinly-rebranded wire summary, but a genuinely curated view from people on the ground. We name names. We are honest about what is hype, what is real, and what is too early to tell. The brief is paired with the occasional sit-down interview series, and we host a quarterly briefing call for advertiser partners. Sponsors who advertise here are reaching one of the most concentrated senior decision-maker audiences on the APH network, and the inventory is tightly held — the newsletter sponsorship slots are sold by season, not by issue.

Audience

GCC and MENA investors, regional executives, sovereign wealth and family office leadership, diaspora capital allocators, and the senior strategists at multinationals running MENA portfolios. Reads as well in London, Geneva and Singapore as it does in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Cairo. The audience is small (a few thousand confirmed senior subscribers) but unusually wealthy and unusually well-positioned. Many subscribers control or directly influence deployable capital in seven and eight-figure sums; a meaningful portion sit on multiple boards. The list is closely guarded — we do not run heavy acquisition campaigns on it — and as a result it punches several weight classes above its size in terms of who actually opens the brief and what they do next.