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Lebanon

Beirut gets new tech accelerator, Speed@BDD

CEO Sami Abou Saab during a meeting at the Speed@BDD offices. (Images via Maya Rahal) Yesterday, a collection of Beirut’s entrepreneurial e...

Tech Accelerator Speed@BDD Beirut Digital District

Egypt

Printing money: Spear Ink’s e-waste ambitions

E-waste is a mushrooming scourge of the technology revolution with up to 50 million tons of electronic rubbish generated annually -...

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Regional

Telr helps small merchants make friends with big banks

Sirish Kumar, during the Ecommerce Show 2015, at the Dubai International Exhibition and Conference Center The Middle East is at an...

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Saudi Arabia

Misreading Saudi entrepreneurship [Opinion]

When looking at it from the outside, Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurship potential appears very different to the reality. There are arrogant m...

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Maghreb

Who will be king of Morocco's real estate portals?

Samsar ads plastered around the city could be a thing of the past. (Image via Aline Mayard) If you want to understand Morocco’s d...

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Palestine

Palestinian startup RedCrow Intelligence analyzes security threats for business

Palestinians Hussein Nasser-Eddin and Laila Akel started their big data-crunching risk analysis company in September last year, having...

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Lebanon

The Chile Connection: lessons for Lebanese entrepreneurs

The Chileans in Beirut. (Image via BDD) For 17 years Chileans endured a right-wing military dictatorship that saw more than 3,000 people...

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Jordan

Arabic e-book startup Yaqut wins SeedStars Amman competition, advances to world finals

Yaqut's Ammar Mardawi (center) accepts the award for winner of Seedstars Amman. (Images via Samuel Wendel) Twelve Jordanian startups...

Ammar Mardawi Yaqut SeedStars International

Regional

Why we can’t give up on Arab diaspora engagement [Opinion]

Note: In this article, Middle East / Arab refers to the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine). Arab diasporas are a true mosaic....

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Maghreb

How will technology change education in Algeria?

Crowded classrooms, teacher strikes - Algeria's education is not doing well. (Image via McIlwraith Education) Want a recipe for a perfect...

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Egypt

Intel's INARA initiative to engage Egyptian youth

A group of attendees with Egypt’s former minister of communications and information technology, Atef Helmy. (Image via Intel) Amidst the f...

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Regional

Should my startup invest in content marketing?

Still unsure about the value of content marketing? Read on. (Image via The Sales Lion) “We’re thinking about marketing for our startup but ...

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Egypt

Egypt's ecommerce entrepreneurs break new ground

Egypt has an alarmingly high population density which is a major cause of social and economic problems. But if you look at an ecommerce map...

DealGamed Saboba edfa3ly

Palestine

How this Palestinian startup is helping users discover music

Indiepush, a Ramallah-based online music platform that connects fans to their favorite indie artists is taking on MENA’s...

Indiepush ramallah Music

Maghreb

Transportation options heat up as Uber launches in Casablanca

Just four to six Uber cars were available in downtown Casablanca Tuesday morning. This article was updated July 22 to...

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Egypt

Child-focused ventures tickle young intellect

While most entrepreneurial ventures focus on social issues, other ventures have dedicated their efforts to raising intellectually...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi web startup focuses on rehab for disabled children

Hospitals and medical clinics are not the most inviting of places, especially if you have to visit them regularly, but Saudi startup...

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Lebanon

Lebanese expat bakes up a healthy business in Tripoli

At the worn-out Bou Khalil mall on the edge of Lebanon’s northern capital of Tripoli, Soumaya Merhi makes wheat-free baked goods for...

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Lebanon

Mix N’ Mentor brings the Marketplace edition to Beirut in September

Pensive in Beirut, Mix N'Mentor in September 2014. Considered as one of the most innovative cities of the MENA region, Beirut is getting...

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Palestine

Goodbye San Francisco loyalty card, hello Ramallah startup

When Mohammed Amleh left a well paid job in the loyalty card business, in San Francisco, to return to Palestine to launch a startup, people...

SWIPT ramallah palestine

Maghreb

How this French-Arab initiave is backing projects tackling MENA growth challenges

Entrepreneurs, doers and thinkers discuss progress and innovation at the Bardo Museum recently. (Images via Thinkers & Doers) As the...

T&D Mentorship Accelerators

U.A.E

The Dubai startups at your service

For the money-rich and time-poor white collar workers of Dubai, chores are largely a thing of the past. For several years at least,...

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Global

Connecting the world, one car at a time

Google’s driverless cars have been pootling staff around for nearly five years, but the man on the street is still waiting. What...

Dialexa Labs Vinli Connected Cars

Regional

Beauty is in the eye of the app-holder

No smartphones here. Advances have been made in the beauty industry also. (Image via Getty Images) According to the latest statistics by...

Spoilee Vaniday BEEM

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