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Digital Freedoms: A Middle East Update

This article is cross-posted from Access. The past week has been a busy one for the evolving world of Middle East digital freedom: a...

Censorship

10 Tasty Food & Beverage Startups In The Arab World

Today we look at some of MENA’s most delicious and inspired food startups. From falafel to cupcakes, watermelon to shawarma, these tasty n...

Food & Beverage

Think Big [Pic of the Week]

It's been a week for big news - both regionally and globally. The first early-stage VC deal in Palestine was closed, to the tune of US $1...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Goodbye Mizado, Hello Jumia: Inside Rocket Internet's Newest Gamble in Egypt

Jumia, the new online mall, launched with little fanfare in Egypt just over two months ago, the progeny of the German behemoth...

Rocket Internet Egypt Ecosystem

Saudi Arabia

Saudi 3eesho brings healthy living to the Arab world

Obesity rates in the Middle East, and especially in Saudi Arabia, are spiraling out of control. Yet information about how to lead a...

Health Healthcare 3eesho

How Can Cities in MENA Encourage and Retain Creativity?

What makes a city creative? There are a few factors. Density is one; cities with higher densities increase the chance of meaningful...

Ecosystem Innovation

Agzakhana Offers Egyptian Pharmacists an Online and Mobile Pharmacy Platform

Agzakhana.com is about to launch a new electronic system to manage Egyptian and Arab pharmacy sales and orders. Designed by a group of...

Medical

Is Equity Crowdfunding a Viable Model in MENA? A Look at Eureeca

As the Arab world warms up to the concept of crowdfunding, where individuals pool their resources to donate to others’ entrepreneurial i...

Crowdfunding Investment

5 Key Decisions You Need to Make to Improve Your Social Media Strategy

When speaking with many regional entrepreneurs, investors, and some larger brands, the topic of social media is often debated. A social...

Social Media

Hockey Tips for Entrepreneurs: Do You Know Where the Puck is Going?

While not a huge hockey fan, I am a great admirer of the sport’s legend Wayne Gretsky. I simply am in awe when women and men come a...

Ecosystem Innovation

OPIC and Abraaj Capital Commit $150M to Boost SMEs in MENA

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt now have even more opportunities to for growth, as Sunday the Overseas Private...

Government Investment

Froot Encourages Joking, Reading on Mobiles in the Arab World

In Saudi Arabia, where smartphone penetration has reached 60% according to Google, pivoting into the mobile app market seems a...

Mobile Apps Mobile

How Startup Design Agency RBBi Turned a Profit Within a Year in Dubai

How many Dubai startups have turned a profit within a year of launching? User experience design and user interface (UX/UI) agency...

Digital Media User Experience Design

Lebanese Telecoms Minister Interviewed by Wamda on Twitter - Here is How It Went

On Friday, Wamda hosted a Twitter interview with Lebanese Telecoms Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui to discuss entrepreneurship, innovation, and...

Government

The Cairo Angels Are Looking For a Few Good Startups

The Cairo Angels are here. No, it’s not a local remake of Charlie’s Angels (can you imagine), but a group of business angels based in Cairo ...

Angel Investment Investment

Game Minion Seeks to Level the Playing Field for Indie Game Developers

Independent developers have long competed with large publishing houses in the realm of game development, often outmatched by greater...

Gaming Mobile Apps Mobile Gaming

Teshkeel Media Group Equity Stake Acquired by Crescent Enterprises

Crescent Enterprises, a subsidiary of the UAE-based Crescent Group, announced the acquisition of an equity stake in the Teshkeel Media...

Acquisitions

MIT TR35 Awards Top 5 Arab Innovators Under 35

Last night in Beirut, amid an excited crowd of peers, family, and friends, five young Arab innovators were announced as winners of TR35 Pan...

MIT Technology Woopra

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 02-06

It’s finally Thursday and time for our Weekly Wrap-Up! If you're game for taking your business to the next level, don't miss this week's to...

Crowdsourcing Fadi Ghandour Gaming

Building Government-Startup Alliances [Pic of the Week]

Entrepreneurs and governments are often at odds, leery of working with each other and afraid to reach out to build an uncommon alliance....

Government Startup Communities Pic of the Week

Cairo's Cloud 11, Raising Cloud Services to New Heights

Cloud 11 is a Cairo based cloud-computing services start-up that provides various Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to their clients....

Cloud Computing

Fadi Ghandour's Next Investment: Building a Future for Arab Social Entrepreneurship

Fadi Ghandour's name has been synonymous with Arab entrepreneurship. In 1982 he established Aramex as an express operator for the Middle...

Investment Social Entrepreneurship Wharton

Wizards Productions Continues to Go Global, Announcing Partnership with Tapjoy, Acceleration with YetiZen

After announcing a pivot into mobile gaming and a deal with leading international publisher 6waves, Wizards Productions is continuing to...

Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming

Top 15 MENA Tech Startups That Are Going Global

Today we highlight some of the region’s most innovative tech startups as they expand their businesses from MENA into global markets. Each o...

Technology Top Lists

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