Voices

Younesse Bouziani

One column a month. After years of watching the same story framed three different ways by rival capitals, he had a vision: a newspaper that gives the world clarity. He counts himself lucky that a team of brilliant minds joined him to build it.

Dounia Filali

Moroccan business, African retail, and consumer markets.

Casablanca. Dounia spent six years running retail for Inditex and three selling sugar for a state-owned company — she reads the African consumer the way traders read tickers. Her argument: the economy isn’t what ministers announce, it’s what shoppers decide.

Malika Ahardane

Global consumer brands, marketing, and corporate power.

Casablanca. A marketing manager at Procter & Gamble since 1999 — working with Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Sony Entertainment Music, and L’Oréal — Malika writes about brand power: how the world’s biggest corporations decide what billions of people buy, and what that means for everyone else.

Khalid Al Harbi

OPEC+ and oil markets, Vision 2030, and Gulf finance.

Riyadh. He reads OPEC+ communiqués the way other people read weather — for what they don't say. When ministers talk about “market stability,” Khalid translates it into barrels, and barrels into who gets paid. His columns tend to arrive before the market has finished digesting the news.