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6 Essential Tools For User Experience Design On a Budget

You can't any work done without good tools. Yet if you're just starting to learn and work in user experience design, you don't want to...

User Experience Design

Can't Attend CoE E-Commerce? Wamda is Hosting Google Hangout Meetups in Cairo, Beirut and Dubai

If you can't attend CoE E-Commerce in Amman and are based in either Cairo, Beirut or UAE, read on. We will be hosting a meetup with lunch...

CoE E-Commerce COE

We Are in the Middle of a Revolution [Pic of the Week]

As the Egyptian elections conclude today, and strife in Syria exacerbates tensions in Lebanon recently, it's clear that the region is still...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

TEDxTanta Delivers Energy and Passion

As a Cairean I tend to think there’s little of interest in Egypt outside Cairo, and maybe Alexandria. So I was pleased to have my p...

Ecosystem Innovation Social Entrepreneurship

Facebook to Target Ad Revenue with New Dubai Office

As we predicted in February, Facebook is indeed entering the MENA region, planning to open an office in Dubai now that its IPO...

Facebook Social Networks

ClinArt's Maha Al-Farhan Strikes a Balance Between Business Success and a Happy Home

Maha Al-Farhan is a pioneer in bringing clinical research to the Middle East. Recently named Entrepreneur of the Year at the third annual...

Women

Facebook Marketing: Why Global Brands Need to Change Strategies in the Middle East [Infographic]

What's unique about the Middle East when it comes to building your Facebook strategy? Even if you're a local company, you might not want to...

Facebook Social Media

How To Prepare for CoE E-Commerce Day 1: Mentorship And Unconference Sessions

Get ready for Day 1 of CoE, where you will experience a unique, attendee-driven agenda.1. First we will have “Lunch with Mentors.”During the...

CoE E-Commerce Conferences COE

Tech Entrepreneurs Prepare for a New Egypt

Sometimes you attend an event expecting one thing, but end up gaining insight into something completely different. Or at least in something...

Conferences Ecosystem Startup Communities

Wamda Announces Partnership with Flat6Labs

During Flat6Lab’s Demo Day in Cairo, CEO Ramez Mohammed announced the accelerator’s partnership with fellow entrepreneurship hub Wamda. Wam...

Accelerators Investment

Entrepreneurs as Nation Builders: Pioneers in Pakistan

"Your problem is solved." With those words, Sir Adamjee Dawood, one of Pakistan’s greatest entrepreneurs, saved the country from f...

Ecosystem

Moroccan Site Asnad Offers Online Market for Arabic Digital Content

Those looking to become creative entrepreneurs have a new avenue for monetizing their products, with the launch of e-commerce...

E-commerce

Maghreb Startup Initiative Launches Competition for North African Entrepreneurs

North African entrepreneurs, get your ideas ready: The Maghreb Startup Initiative is now live. Founded as a partnership between the...

Accelerators Competitions

Speed Mentoring in Cairo: A Step Towards a Mentorship Framework?

Finding a business mentor is a lot like finding a date. Physical attractiveness is important for dates, professional attractiveness for...

Conferences

Striving for Funding: Confessions from Dubai's CareZone

Editor’s note (NC): Sometimes a good idea does not find funding in an appropriate time frame. It could be a failure of execution, o...

Investment

Mowgli Partners with Enterprise Qatar, Enters the Gulf

U.K.-based mentoring platform Mowgli Foundation has announced a new partnership with small and medium enterprise support organization...

Mentorship

Beirut's The Dream Matcher Demonstrates the Value of a Niche Social Network

I was recently invited to a second dream matching event in Beirut by The Dream Matcher, an ambitious project that aims to improve the p...

Social Networks

6 Leadership Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Paul Polman of Unilever

Will it be awfully clichéd if I start this post with a done-to-death movie dialogue? I guess it would be but I can’t think of a better st...

Beyond Recycling: Going Green in Saudi Arabia

Ask most people in Saudi Arabia what they know about going green and the first thing they say is “recycling." There seems to be a lot of b...

Environment

Facebook Use in the Arab World in 2012

Just in time for Facebook's IPO tomorrow, @Shusmo has created an infographic detailing data from the Dubai School of Government's Arab...

Trends

Get Ready for CoE E-Commerce: Speakers and Program Announced

Get ready for CoE E-Commerce. Here's the breakdown: the first day will have a fully attendee-driven agenda. You'll get the chance to...

CoE E-Commerce COE

Wharton's First Innovation Tournament in the Middle East: A Competition of Ideas, and a Comparison of Challenges

[Meet all the Karmsolar team in a Wamda recorded quick interview, and learn more about the finalists here] Ahmed Zahran couldn't have been...

Environment

Turkish Gaming Entrepreneur Pivots into Mobile in MENA, Launching Bhalamir

The co-creator of one of Turkey's biggest web gaming platforms, Sanalika, has now launched a demo of his first iOS mobile game, Bhalamir,...

Gaming

Meet the Final 5 Teams in AUC's The Hit

80 teams entered AUC’s product innovation competition The Hit, but only 5 made it to the final stage. The 5 teams confirmed they will ...

Innovation

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