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How to teach the Arts: The Discipline of a Free Mind

In the first part of this series we challenged the popular image of the tormented artist and offered an alternative perspective—that of t...

Art Advice Education

Startup news ticker: Google partners with edX; Apple releases iOS 7 Golden Master; Globe Express Services expands in Turkey;

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

news Investment

Why two Moroccan entrepreneurs chose to go global from day one

Some Moroccan entrepreneurs consider their market simply too small to focus on. For a few popular websites such as Bikhir.com or...

Scaling Advertising Marketing

Meet the Bahraini computer engineer launching a seafood delivery service

Two Bahrainis, Mohammed Toraif and Sayed Jaffer, are set to launch Fish Transporter in the last quarter of 2013. As suggested by the...

Delivery

Beirut's SMEX launches an aggregator to support Arabic content online

You've often heard the statistic: while Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world, with 360 million Arabic speakers, only...

Aggregation Arabic Content

iMENA invests $8m in HelloFood; why it is and isn't like Rocket Internet

iMENA Holdings made headlines yesterday with the news that it invested US $8 million in HelloFood, Rocket’s online food ordering platform ...

Scaling Rocket Internet Investment

Stars of Science launches fifth season with more women: 'innovation knows no gender'

Stars of Science, the hit pan-Arab science and technology reality-TV competition, returns this Friday, Sept 13 on MBC 4 (8pm KSA), for its...

Science Stars of Science Competitions

The challenges of bootstrapping a mobile app as a single female founder in Lebanon

This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of young entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups. If you know someone who's...

Incubator Competitions Mobile

Lebanon

What the new Lebanese Army mobile app is really designed to do

After visiting their offices, I was surprised that Lebanese app company apps2you never made it big in the media. Powered by...

Security Mobile

Startup funding: How to fuel your car [Infographic]

This past week, our Wamda Community member Osama Natto designed and posted his own infographic on his own profile, using the metaphor of a...

Funding Scaling Advice

Qatar's EduTechnoz makes learning Arabic fun for kids, with gamification

Two years ago, Diana Al-Dajani had a big problem. Her then five-year-old son loathed doing his Arabic homework. “It was an agonizing p...

Gamification Education

Five very simple tips for building a successful company page on Facebook

Every day, we hear about new startups that are being established by entrepreneurs in the Arab world. As the number of Facebook users in...

Facebook

Stunning Kuwaiti marketplace for designers blends print magazine with e-commerce

Stunning architecture, sleek furniture, and bold recycled art fill the pages of “YourPages,” a new quarterly print and digital magazine rel...

Freelancers Design Programme

Mobile app MummyChitChats helps mothers in Egypt, UAE, and Saudi

“It all started as a BBM group with friends who became moms around the same time and were eager for help and advice,” says young Egyptian e...

Social Networks Women

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 01-05

Announcing Mix N' Mentor Beirut! This week, we were especially thrilled to announce kicking off the second half of Wamda's Mix N' Mentor...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Startup news ticker: SearchinMENA.com launches on Eureeca; Fotosoora goes live in Egypt; Brate releases new version

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

news

LinkedIn reaches 1 million users in Saudi Arabia, bets on mobile growth

Just before its announcement yesterday that it plans to sell $1.15 billion in stock to raise capital, LinkedIn reached one million users...

Scaling LinkedIn

6 crazy HTML5 websites that will blow your mind

Cross-posted from the original version published on Jihad Kawas’s Blog on September 3, 2013. Editor’s Note: Jihad Kawas is an act...

Lists Developers

Women entrepreneurs are more innovative than men in the Arab world

Women’s entrepreneurship is all the rage lately. Mentions of women in the global media have risen from a catatonic 200 times a year to 1...

Women

The simplest way to improve your startup's chance of success

Running a start-up is extremely demanding. Whether you’re focusing on getting that product out or making sure you can pay out salaries, a...

Healthcare Expert Advice How-Tos

Digital agency Intigral launches new incubator to help startups reach the Saudi market

Ready for a new incubator? Dubai-based digital media company Intigral launched one today, to support startups building digital products...

STC Incubator Saudi Arabia

Will the new MAKE Business Hub kill business by charging for WiFi?

After founder Leith Matthews left MAKE Business earlier this year, (under what many say were difficult circumstances), the...

Cafe Coworking Coworking Spaces

12 productive ways to take a break at work

Whether writing a long report, entering hundreds of names into a database, or dealing with a tough client, sometimes it’s nice to take a f...

Tips Advice

Meet the three teams that won a Silicon Valley investor pitch event in Palestine

PALinnO, a new initiative in Palestine designed to connect local startups to Silicon Valley mentors, has announced the winners of its...

Thought Leadership

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