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Enterprise Strategy in a Changing Middle East Market

Published Aug 27, 26
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Secret challenges consist of determining and handling these threats effectively, stabilizing worker needs with compliance, and adapting MTC guidelines for protected and affordable mobility. If managed well, remote work can be a strategic advantage for multinationals, using operational continuity and access to skill. However, depending on out-of-date guidelines could produce liabilities, such as unanticipated tax direct exposure and compliance problems.

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Daida Hadzic is Director, KPMG LLP.

Words by Kevin McKenna, Elder Advisor, EMIR Mirages typically deceive the eye in the desert, appealing water and relief where there is none. Likewise, the Middle East, at the minute, can appear daunting to worldwide magnate who erroneously look at it as one uniform bloc. However unlike mirages, and regardless of geopolitical tensions in the wider area, the Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) economies' capacity is no impression.

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Yet, numerous local leaders of global business still have a hard time to unshackle themselves from mistaken beliefs and predispositions held by a global HQ that frequently looks at the Middle East through a narrow keyhole. Global budget holders' often misguided perspectives can lead to missed opportunities and prevent development. With over a decade of experience recommending regional magnate in the Middle East, I have actually seen how critical it is to make the case for the area by concentrating on these 5 simple steps.

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This place also operates extremely in a different way from our domestic market, so do not expect the same linear pathways to growth and timelines." This method needs robust preparation, clear communication, a deep regional network and an abundant understanding of the local service environment because, eventually, you need to deliver on that assured growth.

By eliminating misconceptions and engaging proactively, regional CEOs can open the area's real capacity, transforming perceived mirages into a sanctuary of chances waiting to be discovered.

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Middle East News: Major Corporate Trends in 2026

Concerning Israel's questionable policies of limiting humanitarian help into Gaza, the Trump administration has actually followed Netanyahu's lead.

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Taken together, these policies reflect 2 intertwined aspects of the Trump administration's technique to Gaza: a deference to Prime Minister Netanyahu's choices and a deprioritization of humanitarian needs. The administration has not pressed back on the Israeli federal government's strategies to inhabit Gaza City and forcibly evacuate Palestinians into a smaller location of Gaza.

They can best be caught by unpacking how Israel and Saudi Arabiaeach with strong ties to the United Stateshave responded. Not remarkably, their responses differ considerably in all three cases. Their actions also show the growing variation between these two local powers as they pursue widely differing techniques for how to shape the Middle East's emerging order.

Israel has not equated these military gains into enduring strategic wins. For Saudi Arabiathe Arab world's existing center of gravitythe necessary for financial diversification has fueled a drive to de-escalate stress in the region, a push for post-conflict stabilization in the Levant, and goals to build out business and trade ties across the Middle East and beyond.

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Similar to Israel, however, whether and how Saudi Arabia translates its expanding leverage into long lasting tactical gains stays to be seen. Israel was highly supportive of the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear centers. For decades and throughout numerous U.S. administrations, Prime Minister Netanyahu sought U.S. support for and participation in strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

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Israel has made clear that it will strike Iran againideally with U.S. supportin either scenario. Missing a clear U.S. "red light" opposing additional Israeli military intervention in Iran, possibly paired with a U.S.Increasingly, the Gulf views Israel, not Iran, as the primary threat to regional stability.

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