Industrial Research Unit · Straits Institute for Applied AI
Applied AI in Middle East & North Africa
101 entries on the record across Middle East & North Africa — 68 deployments, 13 regulations, 12 pieces of evidence of adoption, 8 pieces of evidence of impact. Each one is traced to a named source and dated. Maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit; the record was last updated 14 Sep 2026.
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Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorYemen11 Sep 2026
Yemen cell used Claude to write missile guidance software
Anthropic — Anthropic blocked accounts behind AI weapons development in Houthi-held Yemen, where a cell drove Claude Code for guidance, navigation and control programming across three arms efforts. From December 2025 to August 2026 on Claude Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, the missile guidance push targeted a guided rocket, a ballistic multistage missile reaching beyond 2,000km, plus proposed hypersonic glide vehicle concepts. A rocket trial misfired; no functioning weapon emerged, though the cell's offline simulation kit survived.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesLebanon10 Sep 2026
Lebanon's accountancy body opens an AI diploma for auditors
Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants — The Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants ran an AI qualification for auditors in Beirut, 8-11 September 2026, with the Arab Federation of Accountants and Auditors. Kamal Shehade, Minister of State for Administrative Development and Artificial Intelligence, gave his patronage. The Jordanian Association of Certified Public Accountants attended the artificial intelligence diploma opening.
Evidence of adoptionMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentYemen9 Sep 2026
57% of Yemeni investigative journalists use AI at work
University of Aden — Dr Sahar Muhammad Ahmad Ali, assistant professor at the Faculty of Media, University of Aden, puts AI in investigative journalism at 57% among Yemeni practitioners, from a digital questionnaire answered by 30 reporters. Dependence rates as middling for 53%, with hunting down information and checking facts the top applications and ChatGPT the favoured tool. Barriers to AI-assisted reporting: poor instruction, at 93%, and frail digital infrastructure, at 86%.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIraq8 Sep 2026
Iraq's security service opens a public tool for spotting AI fakes
Iraqi National Security Service — Iraq's National Security Service has detailed 'Mayyiz', a cybersecurity-directorate platform for AI deepfake awareness that quizzes users on telling genuine images, video and audio from fakes and explains online fraud and disinformation methods. Billed by the service as the country's first specialised platform on AI and deepfake risks, the fake-spotting test is in preliminary trials via the government's 'Aman' platform, which hosts its data.
Dubai clears airport passengers in 12 seconds with a mobile biometric service
General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs, Dubai — Dubai's General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs launched 'Click and Travel', which lets officers clear a passenger's immigration transaction in roughly 12 to 15 seconds through biometric immigration clearance. The mobile immigration service combines live passenger records, automated pre-screening and electronic passport reading with facial recognition, and handled 31,373 passengers in a May-to-end-August pilot.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorOman7 Sep 2026
Oman's statistics office publishes a national survey produced with AI
National Centre for Statistics and Information — Oman's National Centre for Statistics and Information released the Household Income and Expenditure Survey, applying AI in official statistics to generate indicators efficiently and sustainably. Calling the AI-produced survey a national, world-first achievement, the centre puts average monthly Omani household income at RO1,839.3 for 2025, up 18.5 per cent on 2018.
Evidence of adoptionBusiness OperationsEgypt7 Sep 2026
Egyptians who have heard of AI chatbots rise from 22% to 65% in three years
Information and Decision Support Center, Egyptian Cabinet — The Egyptian Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center found 65 per cent of respondents knew of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini in 2026, up from 22 per cent in 2023. Among those aware of AI, 26.3 per cent use ChatGPT and 10.9 per cent Gemini, chiefly for work (51.7 per cent), personal matters (38.3 per cent) and study (32.3 per cent). Generative-AI habits were surveyed from 15 to 28 July.
Dubai Police put 36 automation robots into policing and admin work
Dubai Police — Dubai Police has deployed 36 robots for robotic process automation in policing and administration, automation robots that take routine admin work off staff. The force also finished 104 strategic and operational technology projects last year, disclosed at Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Abdulla Khalifa Al Marri's annual inspection of the General Department of Artificial Intelligence.
UAE Cabinet puts 32 AI advisers to work alongside its ministers
UAE Cabinet — UAE Cabinet has approved a Cabinet AI Advisor system of 32 specialised AI policy advisers working with ministers around the clock. These digital advisers review policy and legislation, gauge impact, benchmark global best practice and recommend; Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum approved it at the season's first Cabinet meeting, at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi.
Dubai's land registry cuts property registration from 30 minutes to five
Dubai Land Department — Dubai Land Department's Initial Registration platform brings AI property registration to developers, reading Emirates IDs, passports and sales contracts, extracting the relevant data and auto-filling fields. Project and transaction registration and escrow account management now share one system; senior manager Mustafa Al Rifai says data entry drops up to 80 per cent and 30-minute registrations take under five.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorJordan3 Sep 2026
Jordan gives its government an AI-generated spokesperson called Farah
Government of Jordan — Jordan's government has introduced Farah, an AI government spokesperson created as a virtual character, to inform citizens and others, explain decisions and policies and speed official news, says Government Communications Minister Mohammad Al-Momani. Farah has an Instagram account, and Al-Momani later announced an English-language version of the virtual spokesperson.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi deploys AI tools across its imaging
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi — Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has deployed several AI medical imaging tools. Transpara highlights suspicious mammogram areas ahead of clinician review, intelligent radiotherapy software adapts cancer treatment doses mid-care, and ARTIS Icono 3D imaging aids urgent stroke intervention.
Two UAE hospitals deploy AI to flag patients at risk of sepsis
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City & Al Ain Hospital — Sheikh Khalifa Medical City and Al Ain Hospital have brought in AI sepsis detection, with algorithms and alerts flagging patients' risk of sepsis and septic shock. Catching early warning signs buys clinical teams extra time to start treatment, the hospitals say.
Al Jalila Children's uses AI-assisted EEG to flag epileptic seizures
Al Jalila Children's — Al Jalila Children's Speciality Hospital has introduced AI seizure detection using algorithm-assisted digital EEG equipment. The system recognises patterns linked to epileptic seizures, aiming to warn early.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesOman24 Aug 2026
Oman's AI retina screening cuts eye-clinic waits from 62 days to eight
Ministry of Health, National Centre for Virtual Health — Oman's national AI diabetic retinopathy screening has examined over 43,000 retinal images and flagged over 12,000 patients, about 30% of those screened, for specialist review, per the director of the Ministry of Health's National Centre for Virtual Health. Over its first seven months it reached 91.3% accuracy and 85% sensitivity, cut specialist eye-clinic waiting lists 87%, reduced appointment waits from 62 days to eight and trimmed operating costs 43.2%. AI eye assessments now take roughly fifteen minutes, where pupil-dilating drops once meant about an hour and a half; phase one spans 25 health institutions.
Sharjah fits AI cameras to its intercity buses to watch the road and the driver
Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority — The Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority is fitting AI bus cameras to 131 intercity buses, ten each with six inside and four outside, to catch driver fatigue or inattention, count boarding and alighting passengers and log accidents and unusual incidents. Taxis already carry five AI-supported smart cameras watching the road and the cabin. Chairman Yousef Khamis Al Othmani says the rollout continues for safety, efficiency and customer experience.
Rotana checks guests in by face across 15 Abu Dhabi hotels
Rotana — Rotana has introduced H2O Hospitality's AI hotel check-in at 15 Rotana-branded Abu Dhabi properties, 4,240 rooms across Rotana Hotels & Resorts, Arjaan and Centro. Guests send passport details and a face photo over WhatsApp a day or two ahead, and facial recognition confirms them at the front desk. Both firms are discussing expansion outside Abu Dhabi.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt19 Aug 2026
Egypt launches a property-tax app that verifies identity with AI
Egyptian Tax Authority — The Egyptian Tax Authority's mobile app for real-estate transaction tax uses AI identity verification against a national ID or passport, so citizens register property deals and pay online. Beyond the AI ID check, the app gives indicative prices from actual market values and serves Egyptians abroad without a tax-office visit.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTurkey19 Aug 2026
Türkiye orders public bodies to spend 2% of investment budgets on AI
Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye — The Artificial Intelligence Action Plan for 2026-2030 took effect through a presidential circular signed by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and published in the Official Gazette. Now binding Türkiye AI policy, it requires public institutions to spend at least 2 per cent of investment budgets on AI projects and promises AI literacy training for five million citizens across 81 provinces within two years. A national programme will train 10,000 specialists and 100,000 application professionals under the AI plan.
UAE launches a national project to run services on AI agents
UAE Federal Government — The UAE federal government's new National Agentic AI Project moves services onto agentic AI in government, keeping human oversight, with early workflows in technical support, customer service, tax auditing and procurement. Over 50 federal entities have joined, aiming to run half of federal services on autonomous AI agents within two years.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesSyria10 Aug 2026
Ada matches Damascus doctors on 82% of 100 pharmacy cases
Damascus University — Ada mirrored the prescribing doctor outright on 82% of 100 complaints and partly on 17% more, beating Symptomate's 68% and 25%, in AI symptom checker testing across five Damascus community pharmacies. Treatment advice matched the physician 49% of the time for Ada, 37% for Symptomate. Damascus University staff logged differing caution, Symptomate sending 53% of visitors to a doctor against Ada's 43%; the diagnostic app comparison stays an unrefereed preprint.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesJordan9 Aug 2026
Jordan uses AI to find leaks across its water networks
Ministry of Water and Irrigation — Jordan's Smart Transformation Project for Water and Wastewater Services Management applies AI water leak detection to its networks, ministers Raed Abu Saud (Water and Irrigation) and Sami Smirat (Digital Economy) were told at the Dabouq Operations Centre. Abu Saud called it the Kingdom's first such project, with pilot areas showing lower pressure, smaller losses and better distribution. AI analysis of consumption and demand lets the Water Authority of Jordan and water companies detect supply imbalances sooner and move affected areas onto alternative sources.
ADNOC deploys SLB's AI drilling analytics across 120 rigs
ADNOC — ADNOC and SLB run a DrillOps-powered Real-Time Operations Centre across 120-plus onshore and offshore rigs, feeding live data to AI drilling analytics that flag problems early. ADNOC credits the AI-led monitoring with 30 to 40 per cent less engineering effort, two to three times more rigs per engineer and up to two days' downtime avoided; no independent evaluation is published.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar2 Aug 2026
Qatar's prosecutors take inmate requests through AI-supported kiosks
Public Prosecution (Qatar) — Qatar's Public Prosecution and the Ministry of Interior have launched AI self-service kiosks letting inmates of penal and correctional institutions lodge requests by speaking in their preferred language. Requests reach the Execution of Judgments Prosecution, which reviews, decides and replies through the same AI system, and inmates can view case reports and follow each step.
Abu Dhabi launches an AI platform to analyse case files
Abu Dhabi Judicial Department — The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department launched an AI judicial platform that automates case-file analysis, quickly finds and compares legal precedents and helps draft legal memoranda and judicial documents. Judges retain full authority with the AI as legal assistant, in what officials call the world's first fully integrated AI-powered judicial platform.
Annahar airs a news bulletin read entirely by AI presenters
Annahar Media Group — Annahar Media Group aired a bulletin read entirely by AI news anchors in Beirut on 27 July 2026. Digital presenter Noor interacted directly with digital correspondent Nahar, billed as a first for Lebanon and the Arab world. Points Information Technology, a Lebanese firm led by Bilal Kassassir, runs the strategy.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingLebanon28 Jul 2026
Lebanese University has trained 430 academics to use AI in teaching
Lebanese University — The Lebanese University has now run 430 professors and researchers through AI training for university faculty, 260 of them in a second round split across 13 groups. The courses cover applying artificial intelligence in teaching and research, and sit inside Supporting Integration of AI in Higher Education in the Middle East, a French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs project reaching 13 universities across Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine. A third and closing round was set for early September.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesTurkey22 Jul 2026
Istanbul's water utility says AI assistant will cut call-centre load
İSKİ (Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration) — Istanbul's water and sewerage administration, İSKİ, launched the in-house İSKİ AI platform on 20 July for AI consumption forecasting, fault prediction and handling citizen requests. Deputy mayor Nuri Aslan says the Alo 185 smart assistant will cut call-centre workload by about 40% and forecasts will reach 97% accuracy.
Egypt adopts a national AI competency framework for teachers
Ministry of Education and Technical Education (Egypt) — Egypt's Ministry of Education and Technical Education and UNESCO launched a national AI competency framework for teachers on 3 June 2026, localising UNESCO's global model. The teacher AI standards set the knowledge, skills and ethics for responsible classroom use; UNESCO counts the country among the first with a nationally contextualised version.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesTunisia21 Jul 2026
Tunisia says AI chest X-ray tool will go to 300 clinics
Ministry of Health (Tunisia) — Tunisia's health ministry will put an AI chest X-ray reading model, built by Ariana and Monastir university hospital teams with local technology partners, into more than 300 primary health centres, notably inland, minister Mustapha Ferjani says. Trained on regional conditions such as tuberculosis, the lung-screening AI is meant to help doctors spot lung anomalies and tumours early, with clinicians keeping the medical decision.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMorocco21 Jul 2026
Moroccan police put AI-equipped patrol vehicles on Rabat's streets
General Directorate of National Security (DGSN, Morocco) — Morocco's national police (DGSN) have deployed two home-designed AI patrol vehicles, Amane and Madar, in Rabat, with Casablanca and Tangier next before wider rollout. The smart patrol cars' 360-degree cameras feed real-time facial recognition and automatic number-plate reading through AI algorithms for instant checks; officers trained first, the DGSN says.
Turkey's education ministry launches AI language platform with teacher module
Ministry of National Education (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of National Education launched DİLİM, an AI foreign-language learning platform, on 16 June and later reported 220,417 users. The platform analyses speech and writing live with personalised feedback, while a teacher module shows pupils' progress alongside class and individual performance reports.
Annahar gives its Lebanon newsroom an AI news correspondent
Annahar Media Group — Annahar Media Group has equipped its newsroom in Lebanon with an AI news correspondent, Nahar, assembled with Points Information Technology. Nahar sweeps thousands of outlets within moments, follows world affairs, weighs rival accounts, renders languages and condenses documents. Editor-in-chief Nayla Tueni cast the AI reporter as a colleague enlarging what journalists achieve.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSaudi Arabia14 Jul 2026
Saudi Arabia issues a national framework for managing AI risks
Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) — The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) has launched the National Framework for AI Risk Management in Riyadh, for government and private bodies. It sets a national method to identify, assess, treat and monitor AI-system risks, which SDAIA says differ from ordinary software because behaviour may shift in use and outputs resist explanation or reproduction. The framework is non-binding guidance.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorJordan11 Jul 2026
Jordan bars public bodies from altering national symbols with AI
Prime Ministry (Jordan) — Jordan's government has barred ministries, public institutions, state universities, municipalities, Greater Amman Municipality and government-owned companies from using AI to produce or alter flags, seals, official photographs, sovereign symbols or national emblems in ways that affect authenticity or approved form. The Jordan AI regulation also bans publishing or adopting AI-compromised symbols or seals; government AI rules require the original approved versions.
Algeria gives new baccalaureate holders an AI university-orientation assistant
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Algeria) — Algeria's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has opened an AI university orientation assistant for 2026 baccalaureate holders, alongside a digital edition of its ministerial orientation circular. According to the ministry's notice, the orientation chatbot replies instantly on every step of choosing a course and enrolling.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesLebanon7 Jul 2026
AI fails to predict Lebanese hospital resilience once other factors are controlled
Holy Family University, Batroun — AI in hospitals stopped predicting resilience once rival factors entered the equation — p = 0.143, despite a raw r = 0.340. Holy Family University in Batroun canvassed 412 healthcare professionals across Beirut and South Lebanon on enduring armed conflict. Crisis protocols, NGOs cooperation and security challenges survived instead; the authors credit institutional preparedness and joint working, rating artificial intelligence integration promising yet limited alone.
Abu Dhabi rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 35,000 civil servants
Abu Dhabi Government, Department of Government Enablement — Abu Dhabi Government is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot for civil servants: its Frontier Employee Programme added 26,000 users across 27 government entities to 9,000 existing licences, making 35,000. Wesam Lootah, Director General of GovDigital at the Department of Government Enablement, says the public-sector AI rollout stays governed and secure, with Advanced Data Residency on every licence keeping processing inside the UAE. AI training and certification come with it.
Dubai's RTA launches AI decision support to dispatch buses in under a minute
Roads and Transport Authority (Dubai) — Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) says its new AI bus dispatch Decision Support System will cut bus deployment to under a minute from 30 to 60 minutes. Machine learning and optimisation algorithms choose and dispatch the best-suited buses live, watching over 1,100 buses across 26 operational scenarios to match Metro and Tram disruptions.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingYemen5 Jul 2026
Saudi programme trains 500 Yemeni teachers in AI
Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen — The Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen has opened Digital Empowerment of the Yemeni Teacher, which extends AI training for teachers to 500 participants and 30 educational supervisors across Aden, Abyan, Hadramawt (valley and coast), Al-Mahra and Socotra. Two strands: artificial intelligence with specialised content generation, equipping teachers to apply AI to lessons, plus digital educational content design. These classroom AI skills are delivered with the Creators Centre for Studies and Training at King Abdulaziz University.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorYemen2 Jul 2026
Yemen's trade ministry approves an AI service on WhatsApp
Ministry of Industry and Trade — Yemen's Ministry of Industry and Trade has cleared a smart programme running on artificial intelligence and reaching the public through WhatsApp, a decision taken at a meeting in Aden chaired by Minister Mohammed Al-Ashwal. Citizens will reach the department's offerings — AI government services delivered by messaging app — and the smart public-service programme will feed the RASAD platform, where complaints about trading breaches are lodged and chased, shortening handling times.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBahrain1 Jul 2026
Bahrain tests AI cameras to police littering and vandalism in parks
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture (Bahrain) — Bahrain's Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture is trialling AI surveillance cameras at some public sites to catch littering, vandalism and other offences, it said on 30 June 2026. Control rooms analyse the smart cameras' feeds; rollout will widen yearly across the ministry's 200-plus parks, gardens, beaches, seafronts and walking tracks. Guards cannot be stationed everywhere, the under-secretary noted.
UAE weather centre puts two agentic AI assistants beside its forecasters
National Centre of Meteorology (UAE) — The UAE's National Centre of Meteorology introduced agentic AI in weather forecasting, with two AI assistants in its operations rooms as a roadmap's first step. 'Al Rased' raises alerts from continuous monitoring of weather stations, radars, satellites and seismic and air-quality networks; 'Forecaster's Assistant' weighs global model outputs against numerical-model data and writes draft bulletins. Humans keep the final say, per the director general.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey26 Jun 2026
Turkish judges and prosecutors get an AI case-linking tool
Ministry of Justice of Türkiye — Türkiye's Ministry of Justice has given judges and prosecutors the CBS Organisation Prediction Project, an AI case analysis tool that reads case-file data to predict which organisation a file may link to. The ministry's Directorate General of Information Technologies calls it a digital assistant meant to shorten trials and support decision-making.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMauritania26 Jun 2026
Mauritania's youth ministry launches bilingual AI assistant for citizens
Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Employment, Sport and Civil Service (Mauritania) — Mauritania's Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Employment, Sport and Civil Service introduced Morshed, billed as the country's first AI government assistant. The bilingual assistant answers in French or Arabic on the ministry's job offers, civil-service rules and youth and sport schemes, drawing on its databases and official documents and sourcing every reply.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesSyria19 Jun 2026
Gemini reads Damascus audiograms at 86.1%, ChatGPT at 60.8%
Syrian Private University — Gemini 1.5 Pro answered 86.1% correctly and ChatGPT-4o 60.8% when AI audiogram interpretation met specialist verdicts on pure-tone charts from 309 people aged six to 90. Syrian Private University clinicians ran the trial at Damascus Hospital, or Al-Mujtahid Hospital, submitting each chart as raw figures; 274 proved deaf to some degree. Cohen's kappa reached 0.848 for Gemini against 0.578 for ChatGPT, and machine hearing-loss triage belongs under supervision, never alone.
Israel says all middle-school pupils will learn English with AI
Ministry of Education (Israel) — Israel's Education Ministry will move every middle-school pupil to AI English learning next school year, with teachers guiding each pupil's progress. The ministry also plans to widen Project 720, which pairs pupils with an AI learning assistant and shows teachers live where pupils struggle, from about 28 pilot schools to 180 middle schools.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey7 Jun 2026
Turkey's Tax Inspection Board says it will launch AI risk platform
Tax Inspection Board (VDK), Ministry of Treasury and Finance (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of Treasury and Finance says its Tax Inspection Board will launch the AI-supported Bilinç Platform this year, letting taxpayers see and fix board-identified tax risks before any audit or penalty. Phase one gives AI tax risk scoring, combining over 150 rule-based tax analyses with machine-learning scenarios, and inspectors may be assigned to taxpayers seeking help.
Evidence of adoptionBusiness OperationsLebanon6 Jun 2026
27.3% of Lebanon's working-age population used AI in early 2026
Microsoft AI Economy Institute — AI adoption in Lebanon hit 27.3% of the working-age population during the first quarter of 2026, on the Microsoft AI Economy Institute ranking — above 19.1% worldwide and 22% across Arab countries. Lebanon sits 33rd of 147 nations, fifth of 16 Arab states. The gauge tracks generative AI use, derived from anonymised telemetry Microsoft harvests within its ecosystems and calibrates for internet penetration and device share.
Evidence of impactHealthcare & Life SciencesSyria6 Jun 2026
Damascus University AI reads hysteroscopy images at 89% accuracy
Damascus University — Damascus University engineers built AI hysteroscopy image classification separating healthy endometrium from endometrial polyps and endometritis in fertility patients. Four transfer-learned architectures, VGG-16, VGG-19, DenseNet-121 and EfficientNet-B0, were fitted to 1500 annotated stills drawn from 200 procedures, scoring 85 to 89%. DenseNet-121 led at 93% sensitivity, 98.8% AUC on polyps, 90% precision on inflammation; the deep learning decision aid awaits outside datasets and pathology-confirmed labels.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorJordan4 Jun 2026
Jordan's AI study assistant Siraj reaches a million students
Ministry of Education (Jordan) — Jordan's Ministry of Education counts over a million students and 100,000 teachers using Siraj, the AI learning assistant launched by the ministry in October 2025. Students put questions, get curriculum-tied explanations and revise for exams; teachers draft explanations and create curriculum-linked questions and activities, with integration into the ministry's learning management systems under way.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesMorocco1 Jun 2026
Morocco pilots AI ultrasound reading in two rural health centres
Ministry of Health and Social Protection — Morocco's health ministry is piloting AI ultrasound to help staff perform and read scans, mainly for pregnant women in rural areas, health minister Amine Tehraoui told the House of Representatives. The AI-assisted scanning runs at the Aghbala health centre in Béni Mellal province and Moulay Bouazza in Khénifra province, backing midwives and other health professionals, sharpening diagnosis and catching high-risk pregnancies sooner.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorLibya1 Jun 2026
Libya adopts a national charter on AI ethics
Government of National Unity (Libya) — Libya's prime minister, Abdulhamid Dbeibah, oversaw adoption of a National Charter for AI Ethics in Tripoli on National Technology Day, together with a national AI strategy for 2026–2030. The government presents this AI ethics charter as a move to regulate AI technologies; the source does not detail its individual provisions.
SEHA fertility centre uses AI to rank embryos for IVF transfer
SEHA Corniche Fertility Centre (PureHealth) — SEHA's Corniche Fertility Centre in Abu Dhabi, part of PureHealth, is using Vitrolife's iDAScore for AI embryo selection through the EmbryoScope time-lapse system, a first in the PureHealth network. Learning from embryos with known outcomes, it ranks implantation potential across full time-lapse development, replacing embryologists' manual morphokinetic analysis and putting the most viable first in line, SEHA says.
UAE finance ministry's call centre AI scores caller sentiment and coaches agents
Ministry of Finance (UAE) — The UAE Ministry of Finance has introduced AI call centre analytics that record and assess calls, reading caller sentiment and showing unhappy calls red and resolved ones green on a managers' dashboard. It also logs call length, resolution time and each handler's performance score, and nudges agents mid-call to swap casual phrases for formal, service-minded language.
AlRayan Bank rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to its staff
AlRayan Bank — AlRayan Bank adopts Microsoft 365 Copilot for bank staff under the Qatar Central Bank's AI guidelines, covering presentations, data analysis, document drafting and summarising reports and emails, it announced on 20 May 2026. Teams are trialling the AI assistant for credit documentation automation and analysis, ESG analysis and ratings support, and mobile-app user stories.
Evidence of adoptionManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesUnited Arab Emirates20 May 2026
ADNOC says it runs 115 AI agents and 3,000 staff-built models
ADNOC — ADNOC runs over 115 enterprise AI agents across auditing, procurement, finance and HR, chief executive Sultan Al Jaber told the UAE government's Agentic AI retreat. Some 20,000 staff trained to build job-specific AI models now use 3,000 daily, and company-wide AI utilisation reached 80% in the prior 90 days.
Oman puts AI self-paving technology to work on a Dhofar highway
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (Oman) — Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology has introduced the country's first AI asphalt paving technology on phase four of the Sultan Said bin Taimur Road dualisation in Maqshan, Dhofar. The goal is faster construction at high quality; contractor Galfar Engineering & Contracting says the self-paving system coordinates paving machinery and cuts manual work on site.
Egypt launches an AI-scored ADHD assessment for parents and teachers
Education Development Fund, Prime Minister's Office (Egypt) — Egypt's Education Development Fund, part of the Prime Minister's Office, introduced an AI ADHD assessment through the Egyptian Center for Testing on 15 May 2026. The AI-scored test returns instant, plain-language results so parents and teachers can grasp a child's attention, focus and hyperactivity patterns and make sounder schooling choices.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTunisia19 May 2026
Tunisian customs adds AI module to flag high-risk declarations
General Directorate of Customs (Tunisia) — Tunisia's General Directorate of Customs added an AI module for AI customs risk targeting to the national customs selectivity system that picks declarations for control, it said on 16 May. Its machine-learning algorithms sift customs big data, automatically flagging high-fraud-risk operations to sharpen checks and speed compliant traders' goods.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingSyria19 May 2026
57% of Syrian medical students use AI to prepare for study
Damascus University — AI use among medical students in Syria runs at 57% for study preparation and 40% for coursework on a 400-person sample of undergraduates and graduates. Clinical years outpaced graduates at revising and drafting. Optimism outran self-interest: 76% expected better residency training, 71.8% wanted institutional rules, yet 25.5% foresaw career gain, with women and researchers voicing ethical doubts. Fieldwork behind this student AI adoption ran April and May 2025 at public medical faculties.
Evidence of impactAgriculture & FoodSyria19 May 2026
Latakia University neural network ages grouper from length alone
Latakia University — Latakia University produced an AI fisheries stock assessment model inferring a Goldblotch Grouper's age and breeding status from total length alone, replacing monitoring war destroyed in Syria. Training used 150 Epinephelus costae from six coastal spots, March 2024 to March 2025, scales yielding age and first breeding at 30 cm. Scores hit R = 0.9995 on age and 100% on maturity, the largest specimen 74.3 cm and 12 years; the neural network stock tool suits unsurveyed waters.
Morocco says AI will help check baccalaureate marking from 2026
Ministry of National Education, Preschool and Sports (Morocco) — Morocco's education minister, Mohamed Saad Berrada, told parliament AI exam marking checks will join the baccalaureate's review and audit stages alongside human markers. The aim is fewer errors and automatic re-verification of results.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentQatar10 May 2026
Qatar News Agency uses AI to add Russian, Hindi and Urdu services
Qatar News Agency — Qatar News Agency has added AI-produced news services in Russian, Hindi and Urdu, lifting its publishing languages to eight with Arabic, English, French, German and Spanish. The director-general says AI had already been part of the agency's news system for a while.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael6 May 2026
Clalit launches AI PRO to find patients at risk before symptoms
Clalit Health Services — Clalit Health Services' new in-house AI PRO applies AI risk prediction to millions of medical records, flagging at-risk patients sometimes before any doctor visit and issuing about 200,000 personalised treatment recommendations monthly. A predictive-screening extension shown to over 800 clinicians at a Tel Aviv conference aims at spotting chronic kidney disease and bowel cancer early from background conditions and test-result changes. Clalit keeps final decisions with the treating doctor.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIsrael6 May 2026
Israeli courts roll out AI assistant to 1,650 judges and aides
Israel Courts Administration — Israel's courts administration is extending 'Chat HaMishpat', an AI assistant for judges, from pilot to every judge's and legal assistant's chambers, 1,650 people. The court AI tool, built on Google's Gemini engine by the administration's digital technologies division, handles only case documents securely, summarising pleadings and testimony, analysing documents and making tables. It is meant to lift technical work from judges without touching judicial discretion.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIraq4 May 2026
Iraq's planning ministry puts AI to work on census data
Iraqi Ministry of Planning — Iraq's Ministry of Planning has used AI census analysis to turn the huge dataset from the 2024 population census into indicators for development plans and investment priorities. Spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi adds that automated contractor naming and classification now runs within Central Organisation for Standardisation and Quality Control services.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesSaudi Arabia28 Apr 2026
Aramco deploys hybrid AI models in refinery planning with Emerson
Aramco — Aramco has plugged Emerson's AI-driven Aspen Hybrid Models into its refinery planning, which Emerson calls among the largest multi-site, multi-period optimisation models anywhere. In Continuous Catalyst Regeneration and Platformer units, this AI refinery planning supports feedstock blending and margin forecasting, with yield and quality predictions up to 98.5% accurate in key units, per Emerson. Aramco says the hybrid models cut engineers' manual adjustments, and hydrocracker units come next.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorEgypt15 Apr 2026
Egypt's environment ministry will fly AI drones to catch violations
Ministry of Local Development and Environment (Egypt) — Egypt's Ministry of Local Development and Environment will introduce AI drone monitoring with geospatial analysis under a Drone Tech agreement. The aerial surveillance will track sources of pollution such as the seasonal 'black cloud' from crop burning, plus illegal building, waste dumping and encroachment on nature reserves, aiding environmental inspection. Governorates will be covered in phases.
First Mills rolls out AI agents across its four flour mills
First Mills — First Mills, a leading Saudi Arabian flour miller, has started running Kodamai's Kelvingrove AI agents in food production across its four facilities. The agent platform tracks procurement signals, supplier coordination and stock levels live, aiming for quicker decisions and clearer production visibility.
An-Najah uses an AI virtual patient in final-year medical exams
An-Najah National University — An-Najah National University has introduced an AI virtual patient, developed by the digital transformation unit of its media centre, for sixth-year medical students' final examinations at An-Najah Hospital. The interactive avatar converses by voice and video without disclosing the condition, forcing students to reason towards a diagnosis, and scores each performance to give examiners data-driven assessments. A case library spanning specialties is planned.
Evidence of adoptionHealthcare & Life SciencesTurkey4 Apr 2026
Turkey says 2 million mammography screenings examined with AI support
Ministry of Health (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of Health has run over 2 million results through AI breast screening since 2024 via its AI-supported Mammography Screening Reporting System. Images from KETEM cancer early-diagnosis centres and Healthy Living Centres flow into one central system, where AI triage pushes suspicious findings up radiologists' lists and those patients get priority appointments.
Abu Dhabi grows its AI inspection vehicle fleet to 27
Abu Dhabi City Municipality — Abu Dhabi City Municipality now has 27 AI inspection vehicles under its Unified Inspection System. Using cameras, detection systems and automated analysis, they spot visual problems in public spaces unaided and send locations and data to inspection teams, reducing manual inspections. Recorded visual-distortion cases climbed from 3,632 in 2024 to 18,851 by end-2025, which the municipality puts down to wider coverage rather than more problems.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMauritania29 Mar 2026
Mauritania runs its first civil-service recruitment exam with AI checks
Government of Mauritania (National Competitions Committee) — Mauritania held its first entirely digital public recruitment exam, with AI recruitment screening verifying online applicants' data, says Prime Minister El Moctar Ould Djay. Of 1,459 applications, 513 were accepted; facial recognition checked identity, the test ran on camera-fitted tablets and marking was automatic. The National Competitions Committee planned further digital exams for IT engineers and specialist doctors.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesLibya27 Mar 2026
Libya's Sirte Oil Company drills its first well with AI steering
Sirte Oil Company (Libya) — Sirte Oil Company doubled its rate of penetration over earlier Al-Khair field rates with Libya's first AI directional drilling, working with SLB, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) says. An AI reservoir advisor read petrophysical logs live; paired with a drilling advisor, it drove automated drilling and geosteering, keeping the well within the target layer.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael26 Mar 2026
Israel's judiciary issues AI ethics code for judges and staff
Israel Judicial Authority — Israel's Supreme Court president, Yitzhak Amit, and courts director Tzachi Uziel have issued an AI ethics code for courts to every judge, registrar and staff member. Prepared by a recently appointed team, the judicial AI rules set principles for responsible use across the courts' work and will be reviewed and updated periodically.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael22 Mar 2026
Supreme Court makes Ramat Gan pay for AI-fabricated citations
Supreme Court of Israel — Israel's Supreme Court made Ramat Gan municipality pay a resident NIS 30,000 in costs after AI-fabricated citations tainted its court filings and its school-transport decision for a special-education pupil. Justice Noam Sohlberg noted the erroneous, partly invented, likely AI-generated references recurred three or four times, even after the court raised them, and said uncontrolled AI use by a public authority toward citizens is especially serious. The municipality says it will learn from this and pursue the lawyer responsible.
Evidence of adoptionHealthcare & Life SciencesSyria10 Mar 2026
55% of surveyed Syrian pharmacists and students use AI tools
Damascus University — AI adoption in pharmacy practice reaches 55% of a 400-strong Syrian sample, halved between 200 dispensing chemists and 200 undergraduates, ChatGPT the best-known name at 53%. Practising chemists outscored undergraduates on knowledge, 5.7% versus 2.5%, yet undergraduates proved readier to adopt later; those dispensing under two or beyond six years used AI least. Writing from Damascus University, where curbed connectivity limits reach, the authors urge rules and tuition before everyday pharmacist AI use. Fieldwork ran September to November 2024.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIraq3 Mar 2026
Iraq's Interior Ministry issues AI use controls and ethics rules
Ministry of Interior (Iraq) — Iraq's Ministry of Interior has issued 'Controls and Ethics of AI Use in the Ministry of Interior – 2026', AI ethics rules drafted by the ministry's cybersecurity directorate on ministerial orders. These AI use controls rest on national AI ethics from a specialist government team and international data-protection and human-rights standards, to strengthen digital security.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael26 Feb 2026
Sheba's emergency department deploys ambient AI to write clinical notes
Sheba Medical Center — ARC, innovation arm of Israel's Sheba Medical Center, deployed SmartER, an ambient AI clinical documentation platform, in its emergency department. Built with Sheba's AI Center and partner ScribeMD, the AI scribe assembles history, nursing intake and prior results pre-consultation, turns the conversation into a structured note and drafts a discharge summary for review.
UAE education ministry names four AI platforms approved for schools
Ministry of Education (UAE) — The UAE Ministry of Education's guide on safe, responsible classroom use of generative AI in schools now has a first annex approving four platforms under set controls: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Anthropic's Claude. Use of the approved platforms requires human review of outputs, fact-checking and academic integrity, the ministry says.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorMorocco20 Feb 2026
Morocco's tax authority will pilot AI property comparables in two cities
General Directorate of Taxes (DGI, Morocco) — Morocco's General Directorate of Taxes announced on 18 February an AI property valuation trial using public property-price comparables in Rabat and Casablanca, built with Moroccan start-up Yakeey. Director general Younes Idrissi Kaitouni reports approval and signed contracts, and the price comparables should end valuations varying by inspector in property and transfer-pricing audits.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIran15 Feb 2026
Iran's judiciary pilots an AI case system that answers judges' legal questions
Judiciary of Iran, Statistics and Information Technology Centre — Iran's judiciary unveiled 'Smart SAMP', an AI case management system first piloted in three provinces, South Khorasan, Qom and Lorestan, from Dey 1404 (late December 2025 to January 2026). Judges each get an assistant that answers legal queries using legal sources and harmonises precedents and advisory opinions, while smart tools handle case referral and expert-review assignment, says the judiciary's statistics and IT centre head.
Evidence of adoptionHealthcare & Life SciencesSudan15 Feb 2026
Sudanese surgeons report 68.7% AI awareness and 9.4% clinical use
Sudan Medical Specialization Board — AI adoption among surgeons in Sudan stays notional: of 185 surgery residents and specialists canvassed, 68.7% recognised artificial intelligence, 9.4% applied such tools on patients, 10.3% attained advanced literacy, 22.3% were formally schooled. Blockers: frail infrastructure 87.6%, absent tuition 79.1%, cost 72.4%; amid fighting, 92.5% lacked kit and 78.3% steady power or internet. Wanted clinical AI use: teaching 68.2%, perioperative decision-making 65.4%. Fieldwork spanned October 2024–June 2025, plus 20 interviews, at Khartoum's Department of General Surgery, Sudan Medical Specialization Board.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorKuwait14 Feb 2026
Kuwait will add AI agents to its national government call centre
Central Agency for Information Technology (Kuwait) — Kuwait's Central Agency for Information Technology will set up, with Sprinklr, one system for handling citizen and resident enquiries across every state body, starting with an AI contact centre overhaul of Wasel 101. The agency says Wasel 101 will then sort and forward queries automatically, run real-time analytics and give the AI-assisted call centres virtual assistants and smart agents.
Kuwait brings Google's AI tools to 40,000 secondary teachers
Ministry of Education (Kuwait) — Kuwait's Ministry of Education is rolling out Google for Education's AI tools to about 40,000 secondary teachers and department heads, an AI teacher training project for safe, ethical classroom AI use. Running from early 2026 to year-end across all educational districts, it seeks common digital proficiency standards and better teaching practice.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesQatar10 Feb 2026
Qatar's international court requires lawyers to verify AI-generated material
Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre — The Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre's procedural directive sets AI rules for lawyers and litigants appearing before its courts and tribunals from the start of 2026. Representatives must check AI-assisted material, flag AI-generated content in documents and declare AI-generated video or audio evidence or risk its exclusion. The AI directive followed a lawyer's contempt finding for citing AI-invented cases.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesSaudi Arabia3 Feb 2026
Saudi Water Authority launches AI platform across the water value chain
Saudi Water Authority — The Saudi Water Authority and IBM have launched the H2O Platform, generative AI and hybrid cloud for AI water management across over 40 use cases in the Kingdom's water value chain. The water-resource AI offers live monitoring, trend spotting and predictive insight, per IBM, and a Consumer Assistant gives the public water services, consumption tracking and conservation tips.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorKuwait2 Feb 2026
Kuwait's traffic department will use AI to cite taxi and delivery drivers
General Traffic Department, Ministry of Interior (Kuwait) — Kuwait's General Traffic Department will soon bring AI traffic enforcement to delivery vehicles, public transport, car rentals, ride-hailing services and taxis through an electronic monitoring system. The system will watch driving behaviour, spot violations and issue automated citations in real time, supporting prosecution of offenders.
Turkish teachers must file ethics declarations for classroom AI use
Ministry of National Education (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of National Education has launched YAZEK, an online system requiring teachers and ministry units to file an AI ethics declaration for school AI work. The companion Ethics Guide for AI Applications in Education sets when declarations apply, defines violations and reporting routes, and creates provincial and district ethics boards plus school AI-ethics teams.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar27 Jan 2026
Qatar Customs launches AI tariff classification and agentic services
General Authority of Customs (Qatar) — Qatar's General Authority of Customs launched AI customs classification and other AI services on 26 January 2026, opened by the finance minister on International Customs Day. Smart Harmonized System classification proposes the tariff code from the first shipment-data entry, pre-classification hints speed and sharpen customs officers' decisions, and an agentic AI service and customs-information virtual assistant join them.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTurkey20 Jan 2026
Turkey's finance ministry uses AI to flag fake invoices daily
Ministry of Treasury and Finance (Türkiye) — Türkiye's Ministry of Treasury and Finance has deployed KAŞİF, AI fake invoice detection that screens about 4 million taxpayers daily. Built by the Revenue Administration's GİB Teknoloji and the TÜBİTAK Artificial Intelligence Institute, the machine-learning system picks out high-risk taxpayers likely to issue fake documents for Tax Inspection Board audits.
Dubai Municipality pilots AI cameras on waste trucks to catch litterers
Dubai Municipality — Dubai Municipality is piloting AI litter detection with cameras on waste trucks watching roads, neighbourhoods and public spaces for littering and illegal dumping. Instant image analysis puts violations on digital dashboards for quick field action; littering costs up to Dh500, under the emirate's Smart Waste Management framework.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorQatar4 Jan 2026
Qatar's cabinet secretariat launches an AI adviser for drafting laws
Council of Ministers Secretariat General (Qatar) — Qatar's Council of Ministers Secretariat General opened the first phase of its 'Smart Legislative Advisor', an AI legislative drafting tool built with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The legal-drafting AI checks drafts against regional and international laws, tests consistency with the constitution and current legislation, and handles language and proofreading review, supporting legislative professionals rather than replacing them.
Unguarded GPT-4 left maths students scoring 17% worse on exams
Turkish high-school maths students given unguarded GPT-4 scored about 17% worse on later AI-free exams than peers without AI, in a randomised controlled trial of AI in maths education with about 1,000 students (Bastani et al., PNAS, 2025). A guardrailed 'tutor' version that withheld answers erased the damage, making this the strongest causal proof so far that unscaffolded AI use can degrade learning.
Israeli tax authority says AI tools found NIS 20bn in discrepancies
Israel Tax Authority — Israel Tax Authority Director Shay Aharonovich says AI tax audit tools have uncovered NIS 20 billion in discrepancies, with AI-based checks comparing capital declarations against the authority's other financial data. At the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society in Jerusalem, he said about 4 per cent of filings are scanned today.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorTurkey2026-07
Turkey's AI learning platform drew 5.7 million users in a year
Ministry of National Education of Türkiye — Türkiye's Ministry of National Education says 5,676,000 users signed into MEBİ, its AI learning platform for self-study, in the 2025-2026 academic year, finishing over seven million practice and assessment tests. Cumulatively, 4,092,992 students, 731,822 teachers and 852,069 parents have used it; AI-driven prompts show pupils what to work on, and teachers get tools to track academic progress.
Morocco will use AI detectors against baccalaureate cheating
Moroccan Ministry of National Education, Pre-School and Sports — Morocco's Ministry of National Education will use AI exam cheating detection devices to find and block suspicious communications in baccalaureate examination centres for the session opening in early June 2026. Named T3-SHIELD and made by Sensthings, a company linked to the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, the signal detectors catch Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular transmissions and other hidden communications, and serve no other purpose. Education-policy academic El Houssine Zahidi warns technology alone falls short without family awareness work.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesAlgeria22 Dec 2025
Sonatrach opens AI-powered drilling decision centre at Hassi Messaoud
Sonatrach — Rig-mounted cameras and live telemonitoring now feed Sonatrach's new ENTP EYES / Real Time Decision Support Center at Hassi Messaoud, an AI-powered drilling monitoring hub the Algerian state oil and gas firm has opened to track performance and streamline resource use during drilling and prospecting. The facility signals a broader turn toward AI in oil and gas decision-making, giving engineers a continuous operational picture instead of periodic reports.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorAlgeria24 Jul 2025
Algeria amends data protection law changing AI automated-decision rules
Government of Algeria — Algeria's Law No. 25-11 narrows the automated-decision rule in the country's data protection framework, Loi 18-07, under Algeria AI regulation: the blanket ban on decisions made solely by automated processing now covers only criminal-justice bodies. It adds a formal definition of 'profilage' and requires a Data Protection Officer, tightening algorithmic decision-making oversight in criminal justice while easing it elsewhere.
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