AI Governance and Compliance Frameworks for the Middle East First Edition

A practitioner's operating manual for governing artificial intelligence inside institutions of the Middle East and North Africa. Nineteen chapters set out the MESA Framework, an architecture of four layers comprising a regulatory floor, a strategic compass, operational machinery and a technical substrate, and apply it across the jurisdictions of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. Separate chapters treat Sharia governance and Islamic finance, cross-border deployment patterns, model risk management, data governance, vendor and third-party risk, incident response, generative AI, and the healthcare and public-sector settings. Six appendices supply regulatory reference tables, template specifications, a glossary, a case-study compendium, a verified reading list and a fifty-question maturity assessment. Written for chief risk, compliance and data officers, governance office leads and model validators, and for the supervisory authorities and auditors who assess them.