Building the MENA Region's First Developer API Platform

The Problem Developers building applications for the Middle East face a fragmented landscape. Need Emirates ID validation? Build it yourself. Need Hijri calendar conversion? Find an unmaintained npm package. Need Saudi business day calculations? Write custom logic accounting for Friday-Saturday weekends and Islamic holidays. Every MENA developer has reinvented these wheels. We decided to build them once, properly, and make them available as simple API calls. Why KhaleejiAPI Exists KhaleejiAPI is the first API platform purpose-built for the GCC and MENA region. We offer 26 production-ready APIs covering: Validation — Emirates ID, Saudi ID (Iqama), IBAN, VAT/TRN, email, phone Finance — Real-time exchange rates, VAT calculation, GCC public holidays, business day calculations Islamic — Hijri calendar conversion, prayer times with Qibla direction, Arabic text processing (NLP) Geolocation — IP lookup, timezone (DST-aware), geocoding for 100+ MENA locations Media — Image processing (sharp), P