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Egypt

Sun shines on Egypt's solar startups

Sarah Mousa eyed the small boys, vigorously hacking at each other with sticks in the narrow backstreet of Cairo’s Al Darb Al Ahmar...

MEMakers Roundup solar energy

U.A.E

Mobile solar power in UAE gets a $10M boost

Enerwhere, a Dubai-based energy startup company that supplies the commercial sector with transportable solar-hybrid power plants, has...

Adenium Enerwhere uae

U.A.E

Bright future for drones industry on display at UAE contest

The winning, Swiss, team. (Image via Drones for Good) Dubai Internet City was buzzing with the sounds of drones this week at the inaugural...

Unmanned aerial vehicle UAV Drones for good

Regional

Building the Arab region’s biggest B2B market place is not without its challenges

Two years ago Syrian entrepreneur Salim Akil was poised to make his SearchinMena.com, a Yellow Pageseque search engine, the region’s l...

Maghreb

Tunisian startup begins manufacturing innovative wind turbine; announces Microsoft partnership

Anyone who has had the chance to speak to Anis Aouini and Hassine Labaïed, the cofounders of Tunisia’s Saphon Energy, knows that ...

Saphon green tech Green Energy

Egypt

5 startups to watch in Egypt's exciting agritech sector

Following last week's agritech overview, we profile five up-and-coming businesses from the startups seeking to revolutionize the way...

Schaduf Agrimatic Farms CUBII

U.A.E

Sleek smoke alarm chirps its way to Dubai (and funding)

An elderly woman using a gas stove to heat her home right after Hurricane Katrina sounds like a recipe for disaster. But in the aftermath...

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5 easy ways to green your MENA startup

Time and money are precious when building a startup. Because going green is often seen as expensive on both fronts, and because it’s a r...

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'Lebanon can become like Singapore,' says Lebanese-American energy executive Ahmad Chatila

When Ahmad Chatila graduated high school in Lebanon in the mid-1980s, the country was embroiled in its bloody civil war. After emigrating...

solar energy lebanon Diaspora

Egypt

Egypt's energy crisis forces increased interest in clean tech

A year ago, Karim Mostafa, CEO of solar energy solutions provider Gaia, was struggling to get anyone to listen to his...

solar green tech Egypt

Oasis500 launches Omraan, a funding competition for startups working to solve urban problems

As it intensifies its effort to spread entrepreneurial culture in the region, Jordanian tech-focused incubator Oasis500 launches its first...

Competitions

Entrepreneurs work towards healthier communities at SOCENT Dubai 2014

Last week Dubai’s social entrepreneurship week SOCENT 2014 held discussion panels and workshops focused on all i...

socent

Egyptian surgeon turns his passion for driftwood into a business

“My passion for wood is something I’ve had for as long as I can remember, and I’ve been making small projects since I was seven,” says Shah...

Hardware Handicrafts Egypt

Hello Tomorrow Challenge kickoff

With the February-March Hello Tomorrow Challenge kicking off in Istanbul on January 28th, among others cities across the world, there’s on...

hello tomorrow hello tomorrow challenge istanbul

10 amazing holiday gifts from innovators in the Middle East

Whatever your religious beliefs, we all worship at the altar of buying new things, especially at this time of year. We compiled a list of...

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Turbines bring winds of change to the West Bank

In 2010, Fadi Quran came back to Palestine during winter break from his senior year at Stanford University, where he was studying Physics...

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8 leading startups get connected with Silicon Valley at MENA Innovation DemoDay

Despite the instabilities at home, Egyptian startups are gaining global recognition for their innovations lately; it’s not just that I...

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Boris Johnson announces £100 million tech fund for Middle East startups

In a move designed to bring booming tech ecosystems in the UK and the Middle East closer together, London mayor Boris Johnson...

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6 tips for successfully crowdfunding your creative project

Got an idea so crazy it just might work? You’re in luck: Zoomaal, the Arab world’s only crowdfunding site, is launching its Cre...

Startup in Palestine launches crowdfunding campaign for rooftop farming in refugee camps

During one of her stints conducting field research in the Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Lebanon in support of her...

Egypt's green startups get a boost from mentor meet-up

While the startup industry is booming in the Middle East, it’s a nascent sector that still needs plenty of babysitting. Sometimes this g...

Training Egypt Mentorship

CSR: a tool for sustainable development in the Middle East [report]

The need for sustainable development in the Arab world is twofold: to increase job opportunities and to protect natural resources. With...

Job Creation Sustainability Environment

Entrepreneurs Take on the Arab World's Water and Energy Challenges

This piece was originally published on the Huffington Post on April 3, 2013. With the Middle East and North Africa's water and...

Green Energy Environment

Think Science Fair Unites Technology Talents in the Emirates

The Sunday before last, Dubai witnessed the launch of the biggest national science innovation fair for youth in UAE. The "Think Science"...

Science Emirates Foundation Sustainability

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