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How to Learn Arabic on Your Phone: 10 Mobile Apps that Will Help

If you haven't learned Arabic from birth, you could easily be tempted to work in the startup industry in the Middle East without learning...

Global

Converting Fans to Customers: How to Create a Successful Social Media Marketing Strategy

Social media has become a common, and now required, staple to any successful marketing strategy. Not merely because it exposes a business...

Social Media Arabnet

Apple Has Pulled AppGratis, But Could Its Model Be Replicated in the Arab World?

Dreaming of discovering new apps that would make your life easier or more entertaining? That's what app-discovery apps are for. From...

Meet the Winners of Startup Weekend Jeddah

At the first Startup Weekend to grace Jeddah over a week ago, a wedding arrangement site won the day, led by two women. Hoping to serve...

Badir Saudi Arabia Startup Communities

Why You're Scared of Public Speaking & How to Overcome It

Regardless of your profession, your success is determined a great deal by your ability to communicate effectively. Whether you’re running a...

Tips

Synergos Launches 3rd Round of Social Entrepreneurship Program in the Middle East

The Synergos Arab World Social Innovators (AWSI) program, which launched its first round in 2008, has supported 40 civil society leaders,...

Social Social Change Mentorship

Startup Weekend Assiut Breaks Barriers in Upper Egypt

Assiut held its first StartUp Weekend (SW) last weekend on a Nile boat-hotel facing the picturesque view of the old town. There was...

Startup Weekend

What Makes A Good Mobile User Experience? A Look at Personal Finance App Wally

Designing a good user experience for mobile can be tricky. But have you ever downloaded a mobile app and just fallen in love with it, even...

User Experience Design

Can You Marry Profit with Social Impact? Answers from ArabNet Beirut

I recently attended my first ArabNet in Beirut take part in the social impact sessions. Speaking an entirely different language than C++,...

Social Change Arabnet Social Entrepreneurship

Intel Business Challenge Middle East & North Africa 2013 Launches, Calling for Applications

Intel just announced the Intel Business Challenge Middle East & North Africa 2013 (IBC ME), a portal to the Intel...

Competitions

Weekly Wrap-Up: March 31- April 4

Whether you're at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey, about to make an exceptional exit, or just observing the Arab market,...

Mix n Mentor Weekly Wrap-Up

TIEC Launches Nationwide Start IT Business Plan Competition: Deadline April 18

The Egyptian Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) has just launched its new “Start IT” business plan competition with ...

5 Uncommon Tips for Managing Your Virtual Team

Typical “how-to” advice on managing virtual teams goes something like this: Have clear objectives. Use video. Communicate efficiently. Use...

Team management Virtual teams Team

How LINKonLINE Weathered the Political Storm in Egypt with New Revenue Models

Until 2002, LINKonLINE was an online publishing section of Link Dot Net. Since it became an independent company,...

Egypt Arabic Content Digital Media

U.A.E

Yougotagift launches in the Middle East

In January, Swedish social gifting app Wrapp reached one million users in 14 months, accruing users faster than Pinterest, Twitter,...

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Wamda Announces Mix n' Mentor Doha

Building on the success of our first stop in Cairo on the 2013 Mix n’ Mentor Roadshow, Wamda next heads to Doha to continue our tour of 12 ...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Sketch In Motion Founders Launch BeeLabs to Build Educational Apps for Kids

After spending almost ten years producing interactive media and cartoon animation for television and the web,...

Mobile Gaming Arabic Content Education

Sirb Unites Saudi Arabia's Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs

On March 10, 2013, angel investor network Sirb, in cooperation with Badir Program for Technology Incubators, organized Saudi Arabia’s ...

Peer-to-Peer Platforms are Disrupting Bank Lending Around the World; Is the Middle East Next?

Since the global financial crisis, trust has been low in the conventional banking system and its belief in entrepreneurs isn't that high...

Peer-to-peer Funding models Investment

EduKitten Helps Expats Teach their Children Arabic

Capitalizing on the increasing use of mobile phones and tablets among kids, Egyptian startup EduKitten was created by a...

Education

8 Hackerspaces Changing the Arab World

Lately, it seems as though we often hear about a revolutionary new DIY idea like the Raspberry Pi Do-it-Yourself computer, or a...

Hacker Culture Social Change Crowdfunding

When Big Companies Fall, Entrepreneurship Rises

This article is adapted from the original version which was published on the Harvard Business Review blog on March...

Trends Failure Advice

Launching Wamda Juice, New Supplement To Boost Your Inner Entrepreneur

We are excited to announce Wamda Juice, the new entrepreneurial supplement booster. Our researchers have been working for years on this and...

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Lebanon's Cineklik Guides Moviegoers in the Arab World

“I like movies, but I don’t have time to go to them,” says Nagi Salloum, founder of regional cinema show-time online datab...

Content Portals Film

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