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Iraq

Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose

Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab...

Apps Lab Ali Al-Hilli Hajwilha ya Saudi

Regional

What I know about making people pay: Hadi Raad

Fintech is the hot sector of 2016: banks are jumping into it, the Nasdaq is testing ideas, Abu Dhabi is setting up a fintech...

Collaborative Entrepreneurship Visa Bridge

Turkey

The incubators and accelerators powering Turkey’s startups

Despite seeing big political upheavals in recent years, and again over the weekend, Turkey is a startup hub. Behind the thriving...

Accelerators incubators investors

Lebanon

SE Factory prepares the next generation of coders in Lebanon

Any tech executive seeking to hire software engineers in Lebanon agrees there is a shortage in talent. To fill that gap, coding boot...

SE factory bootcamp Coding

Regional

Tech adoption can enable a revolution [Infographic]

Governments and regulators must innovate, as the global adoption of technology grows and new economies take shape. This is one of the...

World Economic Forum GITR Innovation

Regional

Who said travel tycoons don't need startups?

Although establishing an airline is most probably not what you are aiming for as a travel entrepreneur, the aviation industry has plenty of...

aviation Travel MEMakersGE

Regional

Startup Watch: Pokémon Go, VCs are ponzi schemes, and Cairo's legacy of entrepreneurship

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch daraty Steve Blank

Syria

Syrian hardware startup Daraty dodging country's challenges

Two engineering students in Syria’s capital are overcoming the enormous challenges in their war-torn country to launch Daraty, an...

Hardware syria MEMakersGE

Egypt

Cairo Sitters signs Kamelizer as angel investor

Cairo Sitters has announced an investment from Egyptian angel fund Kamelizer at the Berlin Tech Open Air Conference today. CEO Hossam...

Cairo Sitters Orcas Kamelizer

Egypt

Ramadan trends: what was the Middle East Googling this year?

Ramadan television series were the top Google searches in the Middle East during the holy month, but the trends show that Arabs are also...

Google Trends Ramadan Egypt

Lebanon

A first year anniversary and a trip to Silicon Valley

“We’re witnessing a change of mindset, in the banks, the investors, the supporters. You can see the effect, and this has all...

Speed@BDD silicon valley

Lebanon

It’s all about the team, AUB Entrepreneurship Week

Startups are all about the team, this was the simple advice put forward to attendees of AUB’s Entrepreneurship Week, June 27 to July...

AUB Entrepreneurship Week CRinn AEISEC

Maghreb

Fantasy football kicking off in Tunisia

Coaching Foot has proved that the American ‘fantasy football’ model has a thriving future in Tunisia. The country’s...

football coaching foot microsoft

U.A.E

Careem to invest $100M in R&D

Careem has announced a new strategy, plus their plans for global expansion. According to a statement released today they plan, over...

careem ride hailing Investment

Regional

Invention is not about smarts, but logic

If you have ever wondered how in the world our forefathers thought to invent the technologies we so much rely on today such as fridges,...

Steven Johnson Book Reviews Invention

U.A.E

Dubai’s medical tourism prospects

More often than not, planning a visit to a foreign country is an ambitious undertaking. Adding a stopover for a medical treatment during...

MEMakersGE Medical Tourism Medigo

Regional

The MENA cloud: how big and where’s it going?

According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, the Middle East and Africa is expected to have the highest cloud traffic growth rate in the...

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Jordan

Putting the creative in coworking, Amman

Coworking spaces are popular features in startup hubs across MENA, giving businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers access to a stable,...

hayyez Coworking Spaces ZINC

Kuwait

The impact of Ramadan on social media users

This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. The holy month of Ramadan is an opportunity for its adherents to both do good and practice self...

socialobby ghaliah Nuwait

Kuwait

Noor Al Qatami: one 2016's most powerful Arab women

This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Kuwaiti Noor Al-Qatami was chosen as one of the 100 most powerful Arab women in...

Noor Al Qatami Saveco kuwait

Maghreb

Is Algeria ready for Aquasafe's IoT?

Is Algeria ready for IoT? In 2013 Iman Malek was certainly wondering: her company Aquasafe had created Internet-connected tools to allow...

aquaculture IoT Agriculture

U.A.E

In5 Media Hub, latest incubator with industry approach

Dubai-based incubator In5 is finally putting the finishing touches to its media-focused hub. First announced in November 2015 they...

in5 In5 media hub Payfort

Maghreb

New $51M World Bank fund to target Morocco

Morocco has been missing a strong investment fund dedicated to startups, but this will change in autumn when the World Bank launches a...

Financement world bank morocco

U.A.E

500 Startups invests in UAE gifting marketplace

UAE-based gift-giving platform Joi has recieved investment from 500 Startups. With this first round founders Ritesh Tilani and...

500 startups joi gifts Investment

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