Regional MENA’s fab labs and the fourth industrial revolution We are in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution in human history. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4ID) is an economic... Willam Altman • 30 March, 2016 hackerspace MEMakers Job Creation
Jordan Jordan gets a new startup accelerator with BIG by Orange Jordan’s startup factory just powered-up another assembly line. In December 2015, Orange Jordan, which is part of the multinational... Samuel Wendel • 30 March, 2016 Support Incubator Accelerators
Lebanon What I know about running a hackerspace: Bassam Jalgha Bassam Jalgha tuning his guitar using Roadie Tuner. (Image via Make Magazine) Despite the launch of several hackerspaces in the... Reine Farhat • 29 February, 2016 Lamba Labs WIK What I Know
Maghreb Morocco's New Work Lab grows coworking space into entrepreneurship training center Eyes were riveted on startup at a Pitch Lab. (Images via New Work Lab) Last Thursday, 35 Moroccan startups exhibited their services and... Aline Mayard • 24 January, 2016 New Work Lab Coworking Training
Saudi Arabia The rise of makerspaces in Saudi Arabia Hackerspaces aren’t new to the region, but they are new to Saudi Arabia. Two years ago we highlighted a number of hackerspaces in... Reine Farhat • 15 November, 2015 Fab Lab Beirut Fab Lab Cairo Geeks Valley
Regional Coworking space community gathers in Tunisia Coworking managers sharing good practices. (Images via Mideast Creatives) When office space is expensive, suitable meeting rooms scarce,... Christine Petré • 13 October, 2015 Cogite Hivos Coworking Spaces
Regional Africa Code Week aims to teach 20,000 children to code in one week Almost everybody has heard of Code.org, the American non-profit that aims to get kids to code. They’re hard to miss. In 2013, the o... Aline Mayard • 15 September, 2015 Africa code week Coding for Kids
Iraq Hacking out coworking spaces in Iraq If there’s one country in the region where entrepreneurs need a good coworking space, it’s Iraq. Baghdad’s two coworking spaces are opera... Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 August, 2015 burj babel fikra space hackerspace
Maghreb 3D printing tackles plastic on the shores of Morocco Jennifer Gadient and Fabian Wyss in front of their Ultimaker 3D printer. (Image via Aline Mayard) It’s 6pm on the beach at Taghazout, a f... Aline Mayard • 05 July, 2015 3d printing waste morocco
Egypt Egyptian startup aims to offer entrepreneurs a change of pace An innovative idea coupled with a business plan, a profit model, solid execution, all followed by a growth phase - these are the... Eman Mostafa • 15 June, 2015
Maghreb This eshop plans to boost the makers scene in Morocco Being a maker, someone who creates electronic and robotic hardware, is not easy in Morocco. Buying electronic components is... Aline Mayard • 15 April, 2015 makers Hackers Hacker Culture
Lebanon 5 things I learned from making a video game in 30 hours Sten Selander of Media Evolution (Sweden) briefs Arabic Game Jam participants As a kid, I had two main hobbies: drawing and playing video... Omar Al Fil • 02 April, 2015 video games arabic game jam MENA Games
Egypt More options for Cairo startups as coworking spaces multiply Two years ago the number of coworking spaces in Cairo could be counted on one hand, but as their numbers have multiplied they’re now b... Eman Mostafa • 28 April, 2015
Regional Souq.com opens API to the public to spur MENA ecommerce Souq.com announced Friday that it will be making its API (application program interface) available to the public, allowing third party... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 25 March, 2015 api Souq.com ShopGo
Lebanon Flat6Labs to launch Beirut accelerator Regional accelerator Flat6Labs will open a chapter in Beirut, cofounder Hany El-Sonbaty announced today at the Arabnet conference. The... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 18 March, 2015 beirut accelerator Flat6Labs
Jordan Health monitoring device takes first place at Amman’s Maker Hackathon Attendees experiment with littleBits while developing preliminary prototype designs. (Images via Dina Al Zubi) A health-monitoring... Melanie Butcher • 03 March, 2015 amman Healthcare Medical
Syria Displaced Syrian developers bringing unique skill sets to benefit the region Syrian entrepreneurs and developers at Startup Weekend Damascus (image via Huffington Post). Syria’s nearly four-year-old civil war has l... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 09 February, 2015 picasso interactive php open source
Maghreb If hackers and makers in Morocco mingled, they could all be winners Like most Maghreb and Middle East countries, Moroccan entrepreneurs often refuse to collaborate and to share knowledge with one another.... Asmaa Guedira • 04 January, 2015 collaborative communities makers Maghreb
Egypt 3 Cairo coworking spaces offering a new approach to education A reduction in rent costs is no longer the only reason for coworking spaces to trend in Egypt, rather, the expansion is looking to include... Eman Mostafa • 18 January, 2015 Designopia alexandria qafeer labs
Maghreb What does the future hold for the Tunisian coworking scene? Cogite's Rym Baouendi weighs in Two months ago, Cogite blew out its first candle, celebrating its one-year anniversary. It’s hard to believe it has already been a year s... Aline Mayard • 10 December, 2014 Cogite tunisia Coworking Spaces
U.A.E Wamda announces the last 2014 Mix N' Mentor: Dubai Mix N’ Mentor Dubai, the final stop on Wamda’s 2014 #MixNMentor Roadshow, will take place on December 13th, 2014 at Dubai’s in5 Innovation ... Wamda • 18 November, 2014 mix n mentor dubai mix n mentor competition in5
AstroLabs+Google announce plans for Dubai coworking space At San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week, the entrepreneurship platform AstroLabs announced their collaboration ... Lucy Knight • 11 September, 2014 tech communities MENA Dubai
Announcing the Mix N' Mentor Competition Amman finalist 1, 2, 3, startup! at Mix N' Mentor Amman. We’re ready to announce the winner of the Mix N’ Mentor Competition Amman edition: RedTroops, the ... Wamda • 07 September, 2014 mix n mentor competition redtroops I3zif
The story behind Cairo's first coworking success Coworking spaces are no longer news for entrepreneurs in Egypt, but no one in Cairo did it before The District, which launched three years... Eman Mostafa • 08 September, 2014 TheDistrict Egypt Coworking Spaces