Editorial role: Betting Editor & Fact-Checker
Joined Emirates-Betting.com: 2020 · Experience: 6+ years · Focus: Content accuracy and fact-checking across sportsbook and casino · Region: UAE and MENA
About Tarek
Tarek Al-Falasi leads editorial quality control across Emirates-Betting.com’s sportsbook and casino content. After working in financial journalism, he moved into affiliate and comparison-content editing in 2020, bringing an investigative approach that checks claims against primary sources rather than press releases or promotional copy.
He re-verifies bonus offers, wagering requirements and operator claims against the operator’s current terms before publication. The same process applies to sportsbook promotions and casino bonus reviews.
How Tarek verifies content
Bonus percentages, wagering requirements, payment methods, licence details and other factual claims are checked against live operator or regulator sources. Each claim must have a traceable source before it is approved for publication.
Tarek designed the site’s recurring audit workflow. It uses a “Last verified” date on reviewed pages and sets a 30-day internal response target for updating expired promotions, changed licence details or outdated payment information after an operator-side change is identified.
Areas of expertise
- Sportsbook and casino bonus terms and promotional accuracy
- Bookmaker and casino review audits
- Content-freshness verification and the “Last verified” audit cycle
- “How to claim” guides and payment-method pages
- Site-wide content audits
Education and credentials
- BA in Journalism, American University of Beirut
- Background in financial journalism before moving into affiliate and comparison content
- 6+ years editing affiliate and comparison content across the MENA betting and iGaming sector
- Designed and owns Emirates-Betting.com’s internal fact-check workflow
- Maintains the internal 30-day content-freshness response target
Career timeline
- 2010: Began a BA in Journalism at the American University of Beirut and contributed business and finance reporting to the university newspaper.
- 2015: After graduating in 2013, worked as a junior financial journalist at a regional business-news outlet from 2013 to 2016, covering consumer finance and regulation across MENA. He co-bylined an investigation into misleading promotional pricing in consumer-finance advertising.
- 2020: Completed internal editorial-standards training and moved into affiliate and comparison-content editing. After joining Emirates-Betting.com, he introduced a claim-to-source checklist requiring bonus and odds claims to link to a verifiable operator source before publication.
- 2025: Following his promotion to Betting Editor & Fact-Checker in 2024, he led editorial quality control and built the recurring “Last verified” audit workflow for promotions, licence information and payment methods.
- Present (2026): With more than six years in betting and iGaming content editing, he oversees bookmaker-review accuracy, bonus and promotion pages, and site-wide content audits.
Meet the other specialists responsible for our reviews on the Editorial Team page.
