Wamda

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 2-6

In light of the recent events in Turkey and the censorship in Jordan, we're taking a look this week at the role of government in supporting...

Weekly Wrap-Up

How Welfare Association is supporting entrepreneurs in Palestine

In 1983, four Palestinian businessmen who were living in the Gulf came up with the idea for a support organization for those living in the...

Incubator Support Organizations Accelerators

Movement builds in Jordan to reverse media censorship

Yesterday, just three days after the Jordanian government moved to block around 300 websites, leaders of media sites met with members of...

Internet Freedom Censorship

Can Jordanian flash sales site Harir crack the Saudi market?

The hour of daily deals may be fading in the Arab world, but flash sales is quick on its heels as the model of the moment. Since...

Saudi Arabia E-commerce

Women's content publisher Diwanee raises $3.25 million in investment, facilitated by MedSecurities

Arabic content for women is quickly becoming a very popular sector in the Middle East. Now, a large investment has validated the sector,...

Investment Women Arabic Content

Spelling mistakes on social media: who's making them? [Infographic]

It's no secret that spelling mistakes can cost your company millions. But unfortunately, they are a common phenonmenom on social media, ...

Social Networks Social Media

10 ways to improve your performance at work

Successful professionals create value by finding a need and meeting it. They are unique in being able to create new products, services,...

Tips Team

4 reasons why sustainability should matter to your startup

Amidst a massive rethink of how we do business, global markets have begun embracing sustainability as an integral part of strategy and a...

Sustainability Social Entrepreneurship

Why education reform won’t succeed without a cultural revolution

What does it mean to be educated? Nowadays, anyone who goes to school and receives a degree after spending a few years in university is...

Education

Saudi entrepreneur launches a microblogging platform to help users tackle their goals

The impatient bloggers of the world have tumblr and Twitter for their microblogging, but now, thanks to an entrepreneur in...

Saudi Arabia

How a Palestinian band crowdfunded their coming album

In the Middle East, indie musicians often struggle to find consistent income in a small and fragmented market. It can be difficult...

Artist Entrepreneurs Music Crowdfunding

European mobile voucher startup tests Dubai's market

With daily deals potentially on the decline, the time might be ripe for a return to basic coupons; TWOFORONE GO is a new mobile...

Dubai Mobile

Meet Egypt's new entrepreneurship magazine: Ideaneurs

Entrepreneurship is about failure just as much as it is about success. That's the idea behind Ideaneurs, a...

5 things the Ethiopian government could do to boost entrepreneurship

When it comes to entrepreneurship, Ethiopia is riddled with contradiction. A stunningly beautiful, tremendously friendly and fiercely...

Policy Government Ecosystem

Meet The Winners of the HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021

Early this May, three forward-thinking companies from the Middle East and North Africa took home the top prizes at the...

Sustainability Wharton Competitions

Weekly Wrap-Up: May 26-30

A number of the stories on Wamda this week highlighted passion, and turning it into your daily bread. Find out what challenges the ...

Weekly Wrap-Up

How to raise your kids to be entrepreneurs

Some children may not be born to be lawyers or doctors, or to get good grades in a traditional school, but they might have other skills...

Education

Cairo’s PushBots introduces simple tweet-to-notify push notifications

Cairo startup PushBots has just released a disarmingly simple way for app managers to send notifications to their app users...

How this French entrepreneur launched a telecom service in Tunisia

This piece is part of a new series on expat entrepreneurs.e Almost all entrepreneurs, at least for a time, share the same concern:...

Telecommunication Expatriate entrepreneurs

Rethinking success: why entrepreneurship may not be for everybody

Global

Thought Leadership