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Meet the group of friends organizing a Startup Weekend roadshow in Morocco

In Morocco, Startup Weekends have been wildly popular. Eight weekends have been organized in a two year span, with over 142 ideas...

Startup Weekend

5 reasons you should accept a new job, even if it terrifies you

When I was applying for my last job, which was outside of my field of study or any previous experience, a colleague gave me a great piece...

Tips Advice

Saudi woman entrepreneur rethinks how we make Arabic coffee

Making Arabic coffee is a complicated and delicate process. The coffee beans must be properly roasted, ground, brewed, then boiled before...

Coffeehouses Badir Saudi Arabia

YouTube and CairoDar Launch education portal for Egyptian high school students

Students studying for tawjihi in Egypt now have a new online resource: YouTube and CairoDar's new education portal, which will provide...

Students EdTech Education

Could Morocco's Made in Medina be the next Time Out for the Arab world?

Famous Moroccan city guide Made in Medina has now expanded to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut and now Bruxelles, Belgium. So how did a...

Franchising City Guides Scaling

The challenges of launching a startup in Doha

Entrepreneurs are hard to come by in Qatar; small and medium-size enterprises make up only 15% of the economy and only about 2% of Qataris...

Consulting Training Ecosystem

Dubai entrepreneur serves up affordable golfing equipment in the Gulf

“I’m an avid golfer, a scratch golfer,” says Dubai-based entrepreneur Dean Cheesley. "But I also have an entrepreneurial streak." To bring ...

Sports E-commerce

3 tools to find and audit your best blog content

Are you stuck trying to find new topics for your blog? Want to turn your past content into an ebook? Or do you want to expand your content...

Tips Analytics

Meet the three Brits who moved to a Moroccan surf town to launch their startup

This piece is part of a new series on expat entrepreneurs. It’s 2013. Fast Internet is accessible almost everywhere, and low cost plane c...

Relocating Expatriate entrepreneurs Travel

How Hijabik is serving the booming hijab market with a lean approach

It’s no secret that many of the region’s online retail companies are relying on high-end Western brands to keep sales accelerating. But wh...

Islamic products Online retail Apparel

4 popular mobile apps for managing your personal expenses

Many entrepreneurs need to find ways to more easily manage their expenses, especially when balancing a new startup with daily life. This is...

Financial management Mobile

Weekly Wrap-Up: May 19-23

This week, we hosted the Lean Startup workshop by Calvin Chin at our offices in Beirut. Chin started by giving a brief overview of the Lean...

Weekly Wrap-Up

10 ways to be a lifelong learner and make it count at your job

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write; but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn,” said wri...

E-Learning Tips Mentorship

Tunisia's MobiSpot serves up video advertising to users without smartphones

It's clear that the Arab World is hungry for video content. In 2012, the Middle East and North Africa had the second largest number of...

Digital Advertising Advertising Mobile

Dubai's entrepreneurs reflect on MAKE Business Hub's acquisition by CeeCee Holding

From its inception, MAKE Business Hub has been a co-working space built for startups. With artfully curved seating, electrical jacks next...

MAKE Business Hub Coworking Spaces Acquisitions

4 Startups that make event management easier in the Levant

Organizing an event is never easy. How do you make sure that enough people attend, or that they'll pay? Small businesses or individuals...

E-commerce

These three startups failed in Jordan and they're proud of it. Here are their 5 honest tips.

[Editor's note: "Building a culture around failure is the only way to build a healthy ecosystem," a seasoned startup veteran told me...

Failure

Lebanese entrepreneur named one of the five most powerful women in gaming

Last week, Lebanese entrepreneur Reine Abbas of Wixel Studios was named one of the five most powerful women in gaming by Inc.com. Abbas...

Mobile Gaming Gaming Women

What does Yahoo!'s acquisition of Tumblr mean for users?

Yesterday, Yahoo! Inc. announced their $1.1 billion acquisition of microblogging platform Tumblr. Although the six-year-old...

Social Media Acquisitions

Why every child in the Middle East should be taught to code

Coauthored by Carine Abi Akar and Nafez Dakkak. Ever since the successful launch of Facebook in 2004, and perhaps as early as the first...

Coding EdTech Education

Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund launches to support Egyptian startups

Despite the political instability wracking Egypt today, startups have a new source of potential support. But will they take funding from...

Government Investment

Who's winning the classifieds market in Morocco?

"We’ve never seen competition like this in Morocco." These are the first words MarocAnnonces founder Tajdine Filali said when asked about t...

classified E-commerce

The Arab Spring through the eyes of Zaid

Zaid Farekh is as Jordanian as Mansaf. Born, bred and schooled in Jordan, he's a hardworking man from a hard working family. Before he had...

Jordan Technology Fadi Ghandour

Global

5 tips to boost your click-through rate and earn more from ads

Online advertisers, publishers and marketers need to understand CTR (click-through rate) and how to use it to their advantage to maximize...

Advertising

Thought Leadership

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