Wamda

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...

What entrepreneurs learned at Oasis500's Beirut bootcamp

As part of their regional expansion, Oasis500, the region’s biggest startup accelerator, held its second bootcamp outside A...

Incubator Investment Oasis500

Microsoft acquires Nokia's phone division, patents for $7.2 billion: will it target the Middle East for sales?

Today, Microsoft has agreed to buy Nokia’s devices and services unit for 5.44 billion euros (US $7.2 billion), its first foray i...

How ArabHardware built a strong community in Egypt and pivoted into e-commerce

It’s not every day that a forum gains enough of a following to turn into an e-commerce store. But this is what Egypt’s ArabHardware has...

Hardware Content Portals Arabic Content

Lebanon

What the Central Bank of Lebanon's new investment policy means for startups

Around 10 days ago, the Central Bank of Lebanon (the Banque du Liban) released an announcement that it had instituted a new policy to...

Banks Government Investment

Is CSR making an impact in the Arab world? [Infographic]

Corporate social responsibility has expanded in the region in recent years and continues to offer a way for companies to support their...

Infographic CSR

Flat6Labs debuts a new model; will it set the tone for regional startup acceleration?

Accelerators in the Arab world are all the rage lately. For every one that has shut down since we last listed the Top 10...

Accelerators

Wamda announces Mix N’ Mentor Beirut with a new format

Kicking off the second half of the Mix N’ Mentor Roadshow 2013, Wamda next heads to Beirut to continue our tour across the Middle East and ...

Mix n Mentor Mentorship

Why are interns and recruiters unsatisfied in Morocco? [Infographic]

It’s no secret that recruiting in the Arab world is hard. And with so many recruiting platforms, each claiming to offer a miraculous so...

Interns Job Recruitment

Global

How are startups using translation tools?

Coming from a background in translation, I believe that language is the most basic factor that we can't live without; it's the...

Poll Results Translation Arabic Content

How two Bahraini filmmakers launched their own studio to galvanize storytelling in the Arab world

Five years ago, after a typical 18-hour day working on a particularly long and tiresome production in Bahrain, Saleh Nass and Chaker Ben...

Film Entertainment

Egyptian online pharmacy Agzakhana secures investment from Vodafone

Note: photo submitted by Agzakhana, credit: Batool Al Daawi Late last week, Agzakhana, Egypt’s first online pharmacy, announced ...

4 inspiring TEDx videos from Arab entrepreneurs

To build a startup you need to go down a difficult road, overcoming obstacles, disappointments and challenges along the way; you will need...

TEDx

Why healthcare in the Arab world needs to go mobile

Regional

Lebanon

Wixel Studios launched Little Heroes, Big deeds; will it bring them long-awaited success?

“To make a successful game, you need to have a good product and a lot of money to market it,” says Ziad Feghali, one of the...

Education Gaming

Thought Leadership