Online Education Viewed Positively in the Middle East [Infographic] Bayt.com's newest infographic examines perceptions in the Middle East about online education, both from job seekers and employers. The... Wamda • 08 March, 2012 Education
Prayer, Media, and Gaming Apps Win at the Innovation Theatre Competition at QITCOM After 10 teams pitched their ideas yesterday at the Innovation Theatre, in a competition hosted by Potential at QITCOM, the 5 team that... Nina Curley • 07 March, 2012 Education Gaming Mobile
Arabic e-Learning Portal Nibras.com Launches, Offering Online Business Education E-Learning portal Nibras.com launched in beta today, bringing online education to the Arab World with a series of short, accessible... Nina Curley • 08 February, 2012 Education
Regional StartUp Maroc Championship StartUp Maroc Championship is a disruptive event designed to bring together new and experienced entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, ... Wamda • 16 October, 2015 championship startup maroc entrepreneurs
AstroLabs partners with Blackbox to send a Middle Eastern startup to Silicon Valley AstroLabs, the startup workshop series, is now joining ranks with the organizations working to connect startups in the Middle East with... Wamda • 26 November, 2013 tim draper blackbox silicon valley
Palestinian entrepreneur looks to use Xbox Kinect for classroom education [Arabic] Inspired by the Xbox Kinect, a motion sensor by Microsoft developed for the Xbox 360 and redesigned for the upcoming Xbox 1,... Mariam Hamed • 14 October, 2013 palestine Gamification
Can Microsoft help scale R&D in the Middle East? [Wamda TV] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Charbel Fakhoury, VP of Sales, Marketing, and Services at M... Nina Curley • 18 July, 2013 R&D Technology Ecosystem
How IPAL in Gaza is trying to improve childhood education through gaming [Wamda TV] [Arabic] In order to help fill the education gap in some parts of the Arab world, three young entrepreneurs from Gaza, Mohammed Youssef,... Mariam Hamed • 02 July, 2013 Education Gaming
Meet Palestine's pioneering female coder, who just won in an international gaming competition Rasha Hussein is one of the Arab world's women entrepreneurs to watch. The first time I met her, she was leading a room full of tech geeks... Nina Curley • 02 May, 2013 Coding Augmented Reality EdTech
edUchange Initiative Conference The edUchange Conference is taking place in Beirut on April 28, 2013, offering a space for exchanging ideas about reforming education in... Wamda • 07 March, 2013 Conferences Education
Open Borders, Private Sector Investment, and Women Entrepreneurs Can Tackle Unemployment in the Arab World On November 13th, leaders at the World Economic Forum in Dubai came together to discuss what can be done in the Arab world to increase... Nina Curley • 29 November, 2012 Advice E-commerce Ecosystem
Why MENA Needs Startup Weekend: A Look at SW Sharjah The Startup Weekend bug continues to expand throughout the UAE. With two events in Dubai and one in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah Startup Weekend this... Nafez Dakkak • 04 October, 2012 Ecosystem Education Startup Communities
What the Samurai Can Teach the Startup What can the Samurai teach us about successful business? Over a dozen enterprising people attended The District recently to find out,... Omar Aysha • 21 August, 2012 Education Gaming Programme
Ana Academy: Turning Talent Into Entrepreneurship [Wamda TV] At Ebda2, the startup competition organized by Google in Cairo, Yasri al Zahhar from Ana Academy explains how the platform allows anyone... Omar Aysha • 13 May, 2012 Education
Creating a Culture of Hacking for Social Good in the Arab World [Wamda TV] Sana Odeh of Faculty Liaison for Global Programs of Computer Science at New York University and Affiliated Faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi,... Kamel Al-Asmar • 12 May, 2012 Education Social Entrepreneurship
AUC Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation The AUC conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Shaping the Future of Egypt kicks off today, at the AUC New Campus, jointly held by ... Wamda • 17 April, 2012 Conferences Education Innovation