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Britain Woos Entrepreneurs With Startup Visa

Originally published on GigaOM Mar. 17, 2011. It’s no secret that the political machine in Washington can be slow… very slow. New leg...

The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Products

Fast Company has just released a list of the 10 most innovative companies in consumer products. It looks like eco-friendly is the name of...

Relive the Magic: CoE 2010 Summary Drawings

Recapture the spirit of CoE by browsing the creative session sketches drawn by the artists at ImageThink. Each is designed to illustrate...

2011's Most Influential Women in Technology

Fast Company has released its 2011 List of the Most Influential Women in Technology. The list highlights 30 women in six categories. All of...

VCs Enter the Fray in Lebanon

Article via Seeqnce, a Beirut-based catalyst created to accelerate technology startups in the Arab World. The emergence of a local venture...

Infographic: The Egypt Influence Network

@kovasboguta has posted a rich diagram demonstrating the chain of influence between prominent Twitter users who tweeted about the events ...

5 Tips for Using Social Media Effectively

Nakhweh, a non-profit that connects aspiring volunteers with opportunities throughout Jordan, has, since its inception as a Facebook page,...

Is the Middle East the new land of opportunity?

Before the uprising in Tahrir Square, young entrepreneurs had been creating their own opportunities throughout the Middle East and...

Explore Google's Art Project

Feast your senses thanks to Google's Art Project, which reveals the world's masterpieces up close. With the use of their street view...

Shaping Startup Superheroes at Bazinga! Ramallah

Against a backdrop political turmoil in Egypt, entrepreneurs in the West Bank gathered to implement a more basic kind of change: to...

Jeeran's New HyperLocal Growth Strategy

Name it a digital call to arms. Discussion of the online lack of relevant Arabic content has reached a fever pitch. Just last month, Google...

Endeavor

The Arab World Needs (Entrepreneurial) Heroes

Saad Khan has written a timely article illuminating exactly what the Arab World needs right now in order to accelerate business growth and...

Comedian Dean Obeidallah on Arab World Comedy

"Believe me, you follow Arab politics, it's a laugh a minute." Listen to acclaimed Palestinian-Sicilian American comedian Dean Obeidallah...

Transform Good Research Into Great Innovations

Discover the Phrenology of an Entrepreneur

Peruse a list of thoughts that enter the mind of a typical entrepreneur- do you agree? 1. I need to make triply sure I have the best...

Expanding a Tested Model at E-coupon Site Cobone

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A Community is Born in the Throes of a Party

On Saturday November 27th 2010, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Lebanon 2010 came to a grand finale with the biggest entrepreneurship...

Joi Ito: The web needs copyright tools

Internet entrepreneur Joi Ito is promoting licences that allow artists and academics to share – and profit from – their work online Joi It...

Entrepreneurial Arabs will make it better for the next generation

Sultan Sooud Al QassemLast Updated: Nov 14, 2010The first few days of November have quickly become known as Entrepreneurship Week in Dubai....

#COE2010 - The Not So Good, The Remarkable & The Ugly!

by Hussein Hallak In case you didn’t know, one of the most interesting events in the region took place in Dubai last week. CoE, Cel...

What Should Have Happened in Expotech 2010

This is a second post regarding ExpoTech 2010. The first one was titled "What Happened in ExpoTech 2010". In this post I'll highlight the...

What Happened in ExpoTech 2010

On Tuesday, 2nd November 2010, ExpoTech Week was launched. we’ll be writing two blog posts about our presence there, these two posts are t...

A Show of Palestinian Business Resilience

By Sam Bahour Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will most likely cut a ribbon; a handful of government officials will be jockeying ...

The 99: the Islamic superheroes fighting side by side with Batman

DC Comics' Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are joining forces with Islamic-inspired superheroes The 99 this week. Carole Cadwalladr meets...

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