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Navigating the Legal Maze [Pic of the Week]

Navigating the “legal maze” can be quite a challenge, especially if you plan to expand outside of one country. Issues such as customs, tar...

CoE Cards Ecosystem Legal

Facebook's 25 Most Popular Games: Lessons for Arab Developers

Facebook just announced the 25 most popular social games in 2012. Music trivia game SongPop by US developer FreshPlanet tops the chart,...

Facebook Gaming Mobile Gaming

DoctorUna Helps Dubai Find and Book Trusted Physicians

I vividly remember the first time I fell sick when I moved away for college. It was just a seasonal cold, but it felt like death,...

Medical

The Story of Kauffman Foundation's Support for Entrepreneurship: A Chat with Thom Ruhe

In the Middle East, we’ve all heard the arguments for entrepreneurship’s economic impact, especially its potential to alleviate rising une...

Angel Investment Ecosystem Education

How to Post Arabic Content Online: A Google Hangout Tutorial

If you feel frustrated by the lack of Arabic content on the Web, and would like to get familiar with some hot tips on how to write digital...

Arabic Content Digital Media Social Media

How to Register for a Copyright 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...

Legal Advice

Jordan's Wysada to Launch One Kings Lane Clone for the Middle East

You’ve heard of Desado. Now meet Wysada.com, the Jordan-based One Kings Lane clone launching in the Middle East. Set to go live in D...

Design E-commerce

Focus Entrepreneurship Policy on Scale-Up, Not Start-Up

Cross posted from the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, November 30, 2012. For more on scaling and the role of government in...

Government Scaling

10 Sentences You Should NOT Include in Your Pitch to Investors in the Middle East

Every investor has seen a pitch that has made them wince. When pitching, it pays to plan to think big and plan to scale, but also to have a...

Advice Investment Pitching

How the Middle East Tweets: Rankings of the Most Connected Arabs on Twitter [Report]

Curious who's most connected in the Arab world on Twitter? A recent report on "How the Middle East Tweets" reveals the region's 50 most...

Social Media Social Networks

Building a Culture of Sustainable Development in Bahrain

In a deceptively gentle British cadence, Leena Al Olaimy firmly gets right to the point when it comes to sustainable development in...

Ecosystem Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Syria Explained: Syria Deeply Maps Conflict in Context with New Media Tools

Far more complex than a simple revolution or call for reform, the conflict in Syria continues to fascinate and appall its witnesses, as its...

Digital Media Education

12 Facts to Celebrate the 20th Birthday of SMS [Stats]

On December 3, 1992, Neil Papworth sent the world’s first ever SMS (Short Message Service) text from the UK through the Vodafone n...

Ecosystem Mobile SMS

Meet the Winners and Best Ideas from MIT's Social Innovation Camp in Lebanon

After a final round of 14 pitches, the Startup Weekend-style Beirut Social Innovation camp came to a close at AltCity last night, as judges...

Accelerators Competitions Conferences

Online Review Site Wins Startup Weekend Doha

More than 30 budding entrepreneurs pitched their innovative business ideas at Startup Weekend Doha this past weekend. Forming their...

Job Recruitment Startup Weekend Taxi + Traffic

Dubai Entrepreneurs Debate Startup Challenges at Shelter's New Entrepreneurs Roundtable

In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week in Dubai two weeks ago, Shelter invited up-and-coming entrepreneurs to share their...

Advice Ecosystem Coworking Spaces

Reflections on Bahrain’s Shifting Entrepreneurship Landscape

After an energetic Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), which included a week-long agenda of entrepreneurship activities organized by the...

Advice E-commerce Ecosystem

Morocco's Stagiaires Makes Intern Recruitment Simple

Until recently, job offers on the Internet in Morocco were confined to general classifieds websites or amateur job boards. It was not until...

Job Recruitment

How to Register a Branch of 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...

Advice Legal

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 25-29

This week's posts were especially rich in legal advice whether it comes to setting up your business in Lebanon, or what it takes to boost...

Advice Angel Investment Arabic Content

Make your Mark for Future Generations [Pic of the Week]

Today and every Thursday is "Arabic Thursday" in the Wamda offices. All the team speaks only Arabic, in an attempt to encourage the use of...

Arabic Content

How to Register an Offshore Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

This series on registration and incoporation in Lebanon comes to Wamda courtesy of Michel Ghanem of Khalaf Law Firm and Lebanon Offshore, bo...

Legal Advice

Developing the Investment Industry in the Arab World: Guest Post from Middle East Venture Partners

This guest post is co-authored by Walid Hanna and Walid Mansour of Middle East Venture Partners, a Beirut-based Venture Capital...

Ecosystem Investment

Arabia500 Announces 130 of the Fastest Growing Companies in the Middle East

In anticipation of the Arabia500 gathering on December 10th at the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, the...

Conferences Ecosystem

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