Do You Want To Write on Wamda? Publish A Story and Win a Free WamdaCard Subscription Do you love blogging? Have you been waiting for the right opportunity to go public with those notes piling up in Word files on your... Maya Rahal • 26 December, 2012 Digital Media Media
Music Marketing Platform Helps Artists Go Viral in the Arab World Today, viral YouTube videos propel artists to fame overnight, creating a completely new set of rules for music promotion. This is where the... Glen Dalakian II • 26 December, 2012 Entertainment Music Social Media
First Moroccan Instameet Unites Instagram Users About a month ago on November 25th, the first meeting for local Instagrammers was held in Morocco, uniting users of the free photo-sharing... Karim Jazouani • 24 December, 2012 Social Networks Social Media Ecosystem
Meet the Moroccan Winners of the Maghreb Startup Initiative After a lengthy competition beginning this May, the Maghreb Startup Initiative 2012 announced its Moroccan winners during an awards... Karim Jazouani • 23 December, 2012 Competitions
5 Applications that Help You Organize Daily Tasks Smartphones nowadays have become our daily companions that stick with us wherever we go. They help us organize daily tasks and... Ahmed Gabr • 23 December, 2012 Reviews Technology Mobile
Tunisian Entrepreneurs Reveal Post-Revolution Challenges at Wamda Tunis Meetup In partnership with the Global Shapers Tunis Hub, Wamda made its debut in Tunis a couple of weeks ago by organizing a meet and greet with... Alia Mahmoud • 23 December, 2012 Advice Ecosystem
Weekly Wrap-Up: December 16-20 This has been a week of looking back and planning ahead. What are you excited about for next year? What are the most valuable experiences... Wamda • 20 December, 2012 Arabic Content CoE Cards Conferences
Though Painful, Failure is Redeemable [Pic of the Week] Failure is not the end of the world. More often than not it marks the beginning of something new, affording entrepreneurs a... Glen Dalakian II • 20 December, 2012 Failure CoE Cards Pic of the Week
How to contribute to Wamda's Community Blog Starting today, the Wamda community can share their own news, thoughts, experience or even tips and tricks from their entrepreneurial... Maya Rahal • 20 December, 2012 Wamda News Social Networks Digital Media
Favorite Stories of 2012 from Wamda’s Editorial Team As the year comes to a close, we're looking back at the startup news we’ve covered in 2012. It's been a busy year with more startup news t... Wamda • 20 December, 2012 Ecosystem Innovation Top Lists
When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job? [Poll Results] Following our recent Facebook poll for the Wamda community, we have compiled the answers to give a short readout on what Wamda’s readers a... Glen Dalakian II • 20 December, 2012 Facebook Social Media Social Networks
Palestinian SMS Platform Souktel Raises $1 Million from Sadara Ventures Souktel, one of the fastest growing startups in Palestine today, is set to enter a new era with a round of $1 million in investment from... Nina Curley • 19 December, 2012 Investment Mobile Mobile Apps
Entej Works to Connect Egypt's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem What do you do when you come up with a great project idea? Of course, you start looking for partners and team members, probably through... Khaled Sadek • 19 December, 2012 Ecosystem Egypt Job Recruitment
Egypt's Startup Reactor Powers Up its First Acceleration Cycle The Innoventures’ Startup Reactor (SR) accelerator launched recently, with a pitching session at the luxury Kempinski hotel by the Nile. O... Omar Aysha • 19 December, 2012 Accelerators Angel Investment Ecosystem
Mallna Makes Arab E-Commerce More Social, Adds Gamification While only 43% of internet users in the Middle East and North Africa have shopped online, according to research by OneCard, Jordanian site... Shaden Abu Al-Haijaa • 18 December, 2012 E-commerce Social Media
How to Ask Your Users for Feedback No matter which kind of venture you choose to build and invest your time and skills in, there is no doubt that it’s in your best interest t... Ahmed Gabr • 18 December, 2012 Advice
Jordan Jordan's Quirkat releases first game from the Arab World for PlayStation Mobile Alongside PlayStation’s recent launch of PlayStation Mobile (PSM), Jordanian gaming startup Quirkat recently released a new game,... Glen Dalakian II • 17 December, 2012 Quirkat
Egypt's Angels Get Serious: Behind the Scenes at a Cairo Angels Pitch Event The Cairo Angels (CA) business angel group has been going for about a year now, and I was happy to attend their latest regular pitch... Omar Aysha • 17 December, 2012 Angel Investment Egypt
How to Balance Your Daily Job and Your New Startup Project By mid-2006, I decided to start a project I had been thinking about for awhile and really excited about: building the first Arabic... Ahmed Gabr • 17 December, 2012 Advice
Tips from an Omani Entrepreneur at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit I attended the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, hosted by Entrepreneurs of Arabia, in Dubai this week and found it to have great panel... Sharifa Al-Barami • 16 December, 2012 Advice Conferences Ecosystem
iOS App Abjad City Teaches Kids the Arabic Alphabet What happens if you find yourself living in a foreign country where no one speaks your native language, and you are try to teach... Maya Rahal • 16 December, 2012 Arabic Content Education Mobile Apps
TEDxCairo 2012 Reveals Optimism Despite Political Turmoil in Egypt Depsite Egypt's recent angst, TEDxCairo went ahead with its 2012 showcase event “Collisions” at the AUC’s New Cairo campus. Altho... Omar Aysha • 16 December, 2012 Egypt TEDx
Mashaweer Pioneers Personal Assistance Services in Egypt Should you happen to get stuck in traffic and not be able to pull off some chores during a hard working day, don’t hesitate to rely on y... Hanan Solayman • 16 December, 2012 Egypt
How to Register a Representative Office for a Foreign Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice] This series on registration and incorporation in Lebanon comes to Wamda courtesy of Michel Ghanem of Khalaf Law Firm and Lebanon Offshore, b... Wamda • 14 December, 2012 Advice Legal