Middle East Social Entrepreneurship Faces Challenges, but No Shortage of Volunteers The Arab Spring brought tumult to the Middle East, but the demonstrations have also ushered in new aspects to civil life in Arab society.... Knowledge @Wharton • 31 May, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship
Overcoming Challenges In The Arab Region: Hanan Saab, Founder of Pharmamed [Wamda TV] At the MENA Business Women Network Forum held in April in Dubai, Hanan Saab, founding member and current President at the Lebanese League... Maya Rahal • 31 May, 2012 Conferences Women
Jordanian Entrepreneurs Launch Startup Enabling Global Access to Healthcare "We want to export U.S.-quality healthcare to the rest of the world," says Ayman Sharaiha, explaining his startup, Clinical Fellows. The... Nina Curley • 30 May, 2012 Medical
Links Are Not Answers: Cairo's Kngine Launches App to Revolutionize Search Operating with the tagline, "Links are not answers," intelligent search company Kngine (pronounced “kin-gin”) has launched beta versions of ... Nina Curley • 30 May, 2012 Mobile Apps
MBC Ventures Launches, Invests in Falafel Games, Aranim, Supermama MBC Group announced early this week the launch of a new venture capital arm, MBC Ventures, which will invest in media and entertainment... Nina Curley • 30 May, 2012 Investment
Selling Musical Instruments Online in Jordan: Feesheh [Wamda TV] Fahed Farraj and Nur Alfayez of Amman-based online musical instrument store Feesheh, which is incubated by Jordanian accelerator... Nina Curley • 30 May, 2012 Accelerators
Entrepreneur of the Week: Rania and Zaina Kana'an of Artisan Marketplace Ananasa [Wamda TV] This week's Entrepreneur(s) of the Week are sisters Rania and Zaina Kana'an of Ananasa, an online marketplace for handicrafts, that sells... Nina Curley • 29 May, 2012 E-commerce Entrepreneur of the Week
Trends in User-Generated Arabic Content: A Look at d1g's 2012 Shift Two years ago, d1g and Jeeran were going head to head as two of the region's biggest Arabic language user-generated content (UGC)portals... Nina Curley • 29 May, 2012 Arabic Content
Wixel Studios to Return to Arabic Mobile Games with New Investment When Wixel Studios was started by Ziad Fehali, Reine Abbas and Karim Abi Saleh in 2007, it was one of the first companies to appear... Fernande van Tets • 29 May, 2012 Mobile Gaming
Launching a Communal Incubator in Amman: Gel Together [Wamda TV] Founder Farah Ghniem and brand strategist Ayah Younis of Gel Together brought a dose of fun to the Amman Tech Tuesday anniversary event ... Nina Curley • 28 May, 2012 Ecosystem Investment Startup Communities
The Way Forward for Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt The fundamental role of women in Egypt’s revolution and growing its economy was the focus of the event “Co-Creation: Women and Ent... Omar Aysha • 28 May, 2012 Ecosystem Education Women
Yahoo! Acquires a License to Yamli’s Technologies Today marks an important milestone in the life of popular Arabic language startup Yamli, as Yahoo! announces its acquisition of a license... Nina Curley • 28 May, 2012 Innovation
The Influence of Social Media on Journalism: Sree Sreenivasan of Columbia [Wamda TV] Wamda contributor Gulay Ozkan, an instructor at Bilgi MBA and Bogazici Universities, sits down with Sree Sreenivasan, professor at the... Gulay Ozkan • 27 May, 2012 Media Social Media
Creating an E-Commerce Solution Tailored to the Arab World: Moe Ghashim of ShopGo [Wamda TV] At the Amman Tech Tuesdays anniversary event at the beginning of the month, Syrian entrepreneur Moe Ghashim, previously of 7arake, talks to ... Nina Curley • 27 May, 2012 E-commerce
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... George Elkhabbaz • 27 May, 2012 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... Wamda • 25 May, 2012 CoE E-Commerce COE
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