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World Monitor: How Anghami CEO's ‘side project’ became a go-to for geopolitics research

The open-source tool created by Lebanese engineer Elie Habib is experiencing worldwide usage.

World Monitor: How Anghami CEO's ‘side project’ became a go-to for geopolitics research

Screenshot of the interface of "World Monitor," the software created by Lebanese engineer Elie Habib.

World Monitor, born from what its creator, Elie Habib, describes as a “Sunday weekend project,” has quickly gained traction among geopolitics enthusiasts and researchers. Its dashboard resembles an intelligence agency’s crisis room, allowing users to track a wide range of global data in real time.As Lebanon closely follows developments that could signal an Israeli escalation or a broader regional war, Habib, co-founder of Anghami and executive director of OSN+, attempted to make sense of overlapping crises.“World Monitor was born on a boring Sunday, when global news was becoming too difficult to decipher. Iran, Trump’s decisions, financial markets, critical minerals, rising tensions everywhere,” Habib told L’Orient-Le Jour. “I needed to understand how these events correlated.” Habib's work Anghami secures up to $55 million investment...
World Monitor, born from what its creator, Elie Habib, describes as a “Sunday weekend project,” has quickly gained traction among geopolitics enthusiasts and researchers. Its dashboard resembles an intelligence agency’s crisis room, allowing users to track a wide range of global data in real time.As Lebanon closely follows developments that could signal an Israeli escalation or a broader regional war, Habib, co-founder of Anghami and executive director of OSN+, attempted to make sense of overlapping crises.“World Monitor was born on a boring Sunday, when global news was becoming too difficult to decipher. Iran, Trump’s decisions, financial markets, critical minerals, rising tensions everywhere,” Habib told L’Orient-Le Jour. “I needed to understand how these events correlated.” Habib's work Anghami secures up to $55...
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