Arabian
Business Times
Where the GCC's leaders, businesses and ideas connect.
We tell the stories of the people and businesses shaping the GCC, through leadership interviews, expert insights and company profiles.
What is Arabian Business Times?
Connecting leaders, businesses and expertise across the GCC
Arabian Business Times is a GCC-focused business media and leadership platform for CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs and companies across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. We publish leader profiles, executive interviews, expert articles, industry insights and corporate features, and connect them so a person’s story, their business and their expertise can be understood together.
Our coverage spans real estate, AI, technology, finance, healthcare and consulting. For the leaders and businesses we feature, we help strengthen digital identity and credibility through a structured presence designed for modern search and AI-driven discovery, including Google, Bing and AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
A connected platform for people, businesses, expertise and stories.
Arif Hussain
Founder, Arabian Business Times
Real people. Real stories. A stronger GCC presence.
How It All Began
Arabian Business Times began with a problem our founder, Arif Hussain, kept running into. Arif has worked in SEO for seven years, helping leaders and companies build their online presence. Every time, the information needed to describe a single brand was scattered. Some of it was on LinkedIn, some on the company website, and some in articles or interviews. He found himself going back to clients again and again for the basics: who the owner is, how the company started, what the business does and what expertise they have shared.
Research took hours across Google and AI tools, and something was still missing. Company websites often held only part of the picture, and what other publications said about a business mattered as well. Searching for one leader and one company shouldn’t take that much effort.
“We didn’t think the region needed another news site. It needed a place where a leader’s story, their business, their ideas and their achievements sit together and are easy to find. So we started building one.”
ABT began as an interview publication for personal and business branding. Then Arif saw a gap in the GCC market: there was no single place where a person and their business were presented together. The idea grew into a platform. A CEO can add a profile, and a business owner can add their company. They can share their journey and expertise in an interview, present their brand in a company spotlight, publish announcements and press releases, or get in touch about events. Recognition lists, such as top 10 brands, CEOs and companies, sit alongside this. Each piece links to the others, so readers can follow a leader to their business, their thinking and their industry.
Since then, we have published more than 60 interviews and launched our website. Leaders and businesses can now create a profile or contact us about an interview. We share stories with our audiences on Instagram and LinkedIn, and our recognition series, including Top 30 Women Leaders in the GCC 2026, highlights people driving change across the region.
What hasn’t changed is our standard. Nothing on Arabian Business Times goes live without editorial review. Every piece has to earn its place, and that is what makes a presence on ABT worth having.
Credible leaders, invisible online.
One connected, verified presence.
Read across all six GCC markets.
Our Mission.
Our mission is to help the GCC's leaders, experts and businesses build a credible, connected digital presence, and to give readers one trusted place to discover them. Three principles guide every page we publish.
Verified before visible
Every submission goes through editorial review. We check facts, confirm details and request revisions where needed, and updates are reviewed the same way.
Connected, not isolated
We link each leader to their business, interviews, articles and industry, giving readers, search engines and AI tools a complete, consistent picture.
Rooted in the region
Built for the GCC, not adapted to it. Our editors understand the markets and ambitions shaping the Gulf, and tell each story in that context.
To become the GCC’s most trusted home for leadership stories: the first place anyone looks to understand who is shaping the region, and why.
More Than Just a Publication.
We create connected profiles, credible interviews and expert insights that bring the GCC's leaders, businesses and ideas together. Here's how we do it.
Ahmed Al Mansoori
CEO & FounderMansoori GroupLeader Profiles.
A leader profile is the central hub of a person's professional story. It brings together their biography, current role, company, areas of expertise, career journey and achievements on one page, written to a consistent editorial standard. Every profile links to the leader's business and to the interviews and articles they have contributed.
Al Mansoori Group
Real Estate & InvestmentVerified CorporateBusiness Profiles.
A business profile presents a company clearly and credibly: what it does, the services it offers, its story, its leadership and its recognition. Because each business profile connects directly to the profiles of the people who lead it, readers understand both the company and the people behind it.
Interviews & Expert Insights.
Our editorial interviews explore how leaders think: their journey, leadership philosophy, the challenges they have overcome and their vision for what comes next. Alongside interviews, we publish expert articles written from real experience, giving leaders a platform to share knowledge in their field and positioning them as trusted voices in their industry.
Every piece we publish goes live on arabianbusinesstimes.com and is shared as a collaboration post on Instagram and LinkedIn, so each story reaches readers where they already spend their time.
Across the Gulf, market by market.
United Arab Emirates
UAEFrom Dubai’s startup energy to Abu Dhabi’s established institutions, we feature founders and firms across real estate, finance, hospitality, luxury, technology and professional services.
Saudi Arabia
KSAAs the Kingdom’s economy transforms, new companies, sectors and leaders are emerging fast. We tell the stories of those at the centre of that change.
Our Impact in Numbers.
A growing audience, a wider reach, and a stronger presence across the GCC and beyond.
The team behind ABT.
LEADERSHIPArif Hussain
Founder & CEO
Building connected brands and verifiable executive authority for leaders and businesses across the GCC.
OPERATIONSShaheen Parveen
Co-Founder & COO
Co-leading editorial standards, operational governance, and strategic enterprise expansion across Gulf markets.
Moments that matter.
Top 30 Women Leaders in the GCC
Our signature annual recognition series spotlighting visionary women shaping regional industry.
GCC Digital Authority Platform of the Year
Honored for pioneering verified digital profiles and executive branding infrastructure.
Cross-Border Media & PR Syndicate
Expanded syndication partnerships across UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman.
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The Voice of GCC Leadership & Enterprise Authority
Arabian Business Times is a premier digital media authority and executive branding ecosystem connecting visionary leaders, thriving enterprises, and groundbreaking industry insights across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Built for the modern digital economy, the platform bridges verified leadership profiles with corporate narratives, CEO dialogues, and thought leadership. Rather than operating as a conventional news outlet or static directory, Arabian Business Times creates an interconnected ecosystem where professional identity, company achievements, strategic interviews, and market authority seamlessly converge to empower regional leaders and showcase GCC innovation to the world.