How a Self-Taught Young Iraqi Developer Hit #1 in Saudi Arabia

When young Iraqi developer Ammar al Issa first started building iPhone applications for kids in his free time, he didn't expect...

Maya Rahal • 30 January, 2012

Mobile Apps

Surviving the Egyptian Revolution: Small Businesses One Year After #Jan25

Days after the one-year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, it’s now the Egyptian economy, not popular tolerance for dictatorship, that ...

Nina Curley • 30 January, 2012

How a Tunisian Software Company Built a Global Brand

In my search for Tunisian success stories in entrepreneurship, I was told I must speak with Mr. Samy Achour, the President and Founder of...

Alia Mahmoud • 29 January, 2012

Why Entrepreneurship in the Arab World Depends on Education

Entrepreneurship is not a luxury today, speakers seemed to say at the 6th Annual Global Competitiveness Forum last week. As global policy...

Nafez Dakkak • 29 January, 2012

Education

Can an Egyptian Virtual Call Center Outprice India?

As local small businesses in Egypt suffer, due to reduced consumer spending during the country’s economic crisis, one entrepreneur is p...

Nina Curley • 27 January, 2012

Mobile vs. Internet vs. TV: Who Wins in the Arab World? Part Three: The Power of Mobile [Wamda TV]

Abed Agha, the founder of digital media company Vinelab, discusses how smartphones are opening up cost effective options for creating...

Wamda • 27 January, 2012

Animation CoE Animate Mobile

Creative Commons' Joichi Ito: Arab Unrest Altered Social Media's Image

This piece kicks off our partnership with Arabic Knowledge@Wharton, in which Wamda will offer weekly content tailored to entrepreneurs...

Knowledge @Wharton • 26 January, 2012

Arabic Knowledge@Wharton and Wamda Join to Offer Knowledge Resource for Middle East Entrepreneurs

Announcing a partnership that will reach thousands of readers in the Middle East and North Africa, Wamda and Arabic Knowledge@Wharton, the...

Wamda • 26 January, 2012

How to Build Interactivity with Customers: A Look at Dubizzle’s Email Survey

Around end of November last year, famous UAE-based online free classifieds site Dubizzle, who just expanded their marketing team, wanted...

Gaby Abi Aad • 26 January, 2012

Digital Marketing

4 Simple Ways to Create Interactive Experiences on Your Website

I grew up in Cyprus, and one of the activities I did as a kid was play a SEGA arcade game called Wonder Boy.  The game was so much fun...

Gaby Abi Aad • 26 January, 2012

Digital Marketing

Women Entrepreneurs on the Rise in Egypt: How Heba Hosny Hopes to Fund Social Good

As Egyptians stage a sit-in in Tahrir to honor the anniversary of the uprisings that eventually ousted Hosni Mubarak last year, one...

Nina Curley • 25 January, 2012

Women

Startup Weekend Cairo 2012 Team List

Below is a list of prize winners and team that competed at Startup Weekend Cairo 2012. First Prize, winner of Best Mobile App award...

Omar Aysha • 25 January, 2012

Mobile Apps Startup Weekend

Egyptian e-Commerce Site books.com.eg Launches Social Bookstore

On the anniversary of the first massive protest in Tahrir Square, Egyptian e-commerce company books.com.eg is making it easier for readers...

Nina Curley • 25 January, 2012

E-commerce

10 Tips for Giving and Receiving Good Feedback

Sebastien Trzcinksi-Clement, the MENA Developer Relations Lead at Google, knows a thing or two about developing a good relationship with...

Omar Aysha • 25 January, 2012

Advice Feedback Software

Teams Pitch Ideas for the People at the Second Startup Weekend Cairo

“Is it better than the original?”  That’s the first question we normally ask about the sequel. Startup Weekend Cairo, held from the 19t...

Omar Aysha • 25 January, 2012

Startup Weekend

How the Arab World "Amazon for Moms" is Proving the Value of E-Commerce

Shortly after becoming a mom, Mona Ataya felt the frustration, confusion and challenges most moms and moms-to-be face while trying to...

Maya Rahal • 24 January, 2012

Women E-commerce