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Three Traits that Set the Best Entrepreneurs Apart, from Saad Khan

Saad Khan, venture capitalist and thought leader in the fields of technology, design and media, spoke recently at Startup Weekend...

How to Start a Business: Five Tips from Rahim Fazal

Rahim Fazal recently spoke at Startup Weekend Alexandria about starting his first company, with his cousin when he was 16. He sold it a...

A Sneak Peek at Facebook Timeline

Facebook users might experienced small changes to their profile during the past month, and not thought much of it. But these changes are...

A New Generation Pitches for Social Change at Startup Weekend Alexandria

Egypt’s second Startup Weekend kicked off this past weekend in Alexandria, Egypt’s second-largest city. Following the Cairo event earlier th...

Startup Weekend

Failure- What is it Good For?

Failure is perhaps the most important teacher for any entrepreneur. Although failure is often treated as a taboo in school and university,...

What Is User Experience Design?

This is my first post in a series in which I will tackle the ins and outs of User Experience Design, offering a crash course in...

User Experience Design

The First Startup Incubator Launches in Tunisia

In post-revolutionary spirit, Tunisian entrepreneurs Mondher Khanfir and Mehdi Khemiri just launched the first private business incubator...

Five Apps that Will Make Your (Business) Life Easier

Just because your business is small doesn’t mean you should suffer by getting overwhelmed by organizational tasks. Google Apps is an e...

A Call to Social Entrepreneurship in Lebanon

As the recent TEDxBeirut event aimed to bring us ‘From Limitation to Inspiration,’ it followed the TED mandate to spread ideas that would in...

How to Win the MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

This Thursday, the MIT Enterprise Forum is launching the 5th round of its yearly Arab Business Plan Competition, at the Radisson Blu Hotel...

MIT MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Animating the Emirati Dream at CoE Animate 11

Amidst the angular but cozy sofas and wooden tables of The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, a range of animators with different agendas,...

Building Optimism in North Africa: Abraaj’s Amundi Acquisition

In North Africa, there’s more reason for optimism among the entrepreneurship community today. Abraaj Capital’s recent acquisition of the Nor...

Absurdity and Inspiration Collide at TEDxBeirut

Never mind that everyone here at Berytech is sleep-deprived and on the brink of collapse. We are all a bundle of statements. It’s one thing ...

Sketching the Future of Animation in the Arab World at CoE Animate 11

Yesterday we kicked off the first in a new series of Celebration of Entrepreneurship events- CoE Animate 11. The event was an intimate...

Why Building an Entrepreneurial Culture Extends Beyond Business Creation Alone

There has been a lot of talk recently, both globally and regionally, about the importance of creating an entrepreneurial culture, and the...

Why iOS 5 is Apple's Savviest Move Yet

An analysis of iOS 5 and its competitors and what Apple is doing to keep its lead in the phone business Apple has recently...

Meet the New Arabic Video-on-Demand Channel

If you’ve ever clicked on a video only to be met with the warning “Sorry, currently our video library can only be watched from within the Un...

Designing a Creative Solution at TasmeemME

As Jordan’s reputation as a hotbed for outsourced design work and an increasingly popular film location grows, it may have a certain A...

Istikana Announces a Milestone One Million Visits

Istikana, an online video portal boasting vintage Arabic TV shows, has just announced that they have received 1 million visits within 135...

Why is Magento an Ideal Solution?

This article is written for Wamda as part of a series on e-commerce by 7arake.com.One of Magento’s best properties lies in the fact that it ...

Egypt 2.0: The Investor Perspective

Spring’s fervent revolution has given way to a dry summer in Egypt. As demonstrators streamed back into Cairo's Tahrir Square recently to p...

Sitat Byoot: The Power of Simplifying a Model

In the wake of funding struggles, Saeed Omar of Jordanian handicraft business Sitat Byoot is transforming his challenges into a vehicle for...

Living Social Acquires Group Buying Site GoNabit

Living Social is acquiring Dubai-based group buying site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum, in a landmark deal that marks the first...

New Startup Seed Fund Tenmou Launches in Bahrain

Tenmou, a new seed stage investment vehicle, has launched in Bahrain this week. The fund, the country's first business angel company, is...

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