Welcome to this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. We’ll be covering:
- Humain prepares for IPO and $2.5 billion fund launch
- Mena startup funding doubles in August—but one megadeal did all the heavy lifting
- Qatar’s budget deficit balloons as LNG exports shrink
- ADGM defies geopolitical turmoil to see assets surge 54%
- And, the three we enjoyed reading this week