Layla Haddad
FOUNDING EDITOR · GAMES & INDUSTRY
Cairo. Led the 312-game Arabic localization audit; previously covered the region's tech economy for a decade.
Disclosed: no holdings in any covered company.
ABOUT MENA GAMER · مينا جيمر
Built to be believed.
MENA Gamer is the independent media gateway for Middle East & North Africa gaming — a newsroom, a database, and a directory for a region of 400 million players the industry counts but rarely serves. We review every game twice, once as a game and once as Arabic; we map every studio from Casablanca to Kuwait City; and we publish in the reader's language at equal weight. We sell no ads on coverage, autoplay nothing, and load anywhere. The absence of clutter is not our style — it is our argument.
THE MASTHEAD
Tariq Al-Rashid
FOUNDING EDITOR · REVIEWS
Riyadh. Wrote the dual-score standard and the review desk's methodology; fifteen years of verdicts under his name.
Disclosed: minority shareholder in MENA Gamer Media only.
Nadia Mansour
FOUNDING EDITOR · VIDEO & THE HUB
Dubai. Runs the interview series and the Hub's registry desk; built the studio census from the first entry.
Disclosed: spouse employed at a UAE studio — recused from all coverage of it, listed on the disclosure register.
OWNERSHIP
MENA Gamer is published by MENA Gamer Media Ltd, a private company registered in Cairo with offices in Riyadh and Dubai. It is majority-owned by its three founding editors and minority-funded by two regional family offices with no gaming-industry holdings; no publisher, platform, or studio owns any part of it. Revenue comes from Hub services (press distribution, future premium registry depth), reader support, and nothing that touches coverage. The full shareholder register and the standing disclosure list are public on this page's ownership & disclosure register →
CHARTER
ADOPTED MARCH 2026 · AMENDED ONLY IN PUBLICThe Editorial Independence Charter
Binding on every person on this masthead, staff or contributor. Breaking it is a firing matter, including for the founders.
1.
No ads are sold on coverage. No advertiser, sponsor, or partner may buy, influence, preview, or veto a word of editorial work — and none has ever been offered the chance.
2.
Scores belong to the reviewer alone. No editor rewrites a verdict, no owner sees one early, and no score is ever traded for access, code, or travel.
3.
The desks do not share a wall socket. The announcements desk, Hub services, and studio support are commercially separate from the newsroom; editors never see who paid, applied, or asked for help.
4.
Everything is disclosed, in the open. Review code provenance on every review, affiliations on every byline, ownership on this page, recusals on the public register — before anyone asks.
5.
Arabic is a first language here, not a market. The Arabic edition is written and edited at the same standard as the English one — equal weight in the masthead, equal weight everywhere.
6.
Community is labeled, never laundered. Player-written work carries the azure community mark; editorial carries the green one. The two are never blended, boosted, or disguised as each other.
7.
The reader's machine is respected. No autoplay, no pop-ups, no cookie walls, no infinite scroll, no dark patterns — built to load anywhere, including a 2014 laptop on desert Wi-Fi.
8.
Corrections are published, not buried. Errors are corrected in place, dated, and logged on a public corrections page. Being wrong is survivable; hiding it is not.
9.
This charter outranks everyone who signed it. It is amended only in public, with reasons, and never retroactively. If independence and survival ever truly conflict, we close rather than pretend.
Signed by the founding editors, March 2026 — Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai.
مستقلّون بالميثاق — مينا جيمر
