Regional Can audiobooks inspire more Arabs to read? [Wamda TV] Rawan Barakat, the founder of Raneen. (Image via Wamda) Studies have shown that Arab citizens hardly care about reading - dedicating... Kamel Al-Asmar • 11 October, 2016 Rawan Barakat Raneen Raneen Media
Regional Sparks fly when girls meet tech [WamdaTV] It’s not up to young women to be interested in technology, but up to their teachers to find ways to make the subject appealing to... Rachel Williamson • 13 September, 2016 STEM junkbot Eureka Tech Academy
U.A.E Itworx Education glocalizes e-learning in EMEA and beyond In 2003 Itworx Education was officially established as a division of its much older parent company, Cairo-based IT service... Vanessa Khalil • 19 September, 2016 itworx education uae EdTech
Lebanon Kids Genius: a young makers heaven in Lebanon [Video] At Kids Genius, the boring connotations of the word ‘education’ is masked by a sense of creativity and fun. This classroom... Dana Ballout • 30 August, 2016 Kids Genius lebanon INDUSTRY
U.A.E All work, all play: the future of tech-powered education in the UAE For many, modern day classrooms look nothing short of an overreaching sci-fi movie scene: children as young as eight talking code, gamified... Vanessa Khalil • 28 August, 2016 GEMS uae itworx education
U.A.E Refining the search for higher education, Schoolapply To better help those looking for university and college courses around the world Schoolapply, a Switzerland-born ed-tech startup, is... Lucy Knight • 23 August, 2016 schoolapply uae
Syria 10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation “Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the... Maysaa Ajjan • 22 August, 2016 Social Entrepreneurship syria Education
Syria Wikilogia: The Syrian NGO that brought open source learning to Damascus As the nearly six year war raged on in Syria, hundreds of entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts were quietly thriving in Damascus. They are... Maysaa Ajjan • 08 August, 2016 syria Wikilogia Education
Syria Code your way up: Syrian startups teach code in Arabic As millions of Syrians fleeing a brutal war struggle to integrate into new countries, one barrier stands out above the rest:... Maysaa Ajjan • 01 August, 2016 Remmaz bitcode Education
Egypt How the Arab Spring planted seeds of innovation in Egypt [Podcast] This podcast is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The 2011 uprising in Egypt that saw the overthrow of longtime President Hosni... Knowledge @Wharton • 27 June, 2016 philanthropy Ahead of the Curve Egypt
Kuwait Getting them young: empowering Kuwait’s youth entrepreneurs This article has been crossposted from Nuwait. Two organisations, one local the other not, are trying to give Kuwait's young people... Reine Farhat • 28 June, 2016 Injaz Nuwait sirdab lab
Palestine Tracking Palestine's tech talent at AngelHack The AngelHack Gaza competition produced some interesting ideas. (Images via Gaza Sky Geeks) Coding is increasingly becoming a... Rafat Abushaban • 30 May, 2016 coding competition Angelhack Ramallah palestine
Regional Arab girls defy stereotypes at Microsoft Imagine Cup Two teams from Tunisia alongside one from Bahrain will represent MENA at the global final in Seattle. (Images via Eduard Cousin) Malak... Eduard Cousin • 31 May, 2016 microsoft imagine cup microsoft Egypt
Regional Edtech and the future of work in MENA Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in the midst of a tremendous inflection point, with the future of the... Willam Altman • 26 April, 2016 Refugee Open Ware Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education Fourth Industrial Revolution
Qatar What I know about digital Arabic content: Nawaf Felemban In 2015 Wamda produced a report that showed 60 percent of Arabs wanted to read online content in Arabic. That would be great... Lucy Knight • 28 March, 2016 Kooora Kasra WIK
Egypt Egypt startups try to halt education, tech skills slide Tech education experts gather st the GrEEK Campus during the EduVation Summit. (Images via EduVation) Traditionally, countries have... Eman Mostafa • 14 April, 2016 Da7ee7 EduVation Summit nafham
Jordan Jordan ed-tech startup secures deal with UNRWA The EDaura team. Founder and CEO Nidal Khalifeh at far left, cofounder Muneer Saifi third from left, standing. (Image via Samuel... Samuel Wendel • 24 February, 2016 lms skoolizer edaura
Syria ReBootKamp initiative gives Syrian refugees access to tech-education A mockup of RBK's planned ZatLAB in northern Jordan. (Images via RebootKamp.org) As the Syrian Civil War drags on, a generation of young... Samuel Wendel • 31 January, 2016 hugh bosely syrian civil war Zatlab
Regional Nadrus makes MOOCs Arabic-friendly The Nadrus team in Turkey, during a training session. (Images via Nadrus) MOOCs, or massive open online courses, are by their very nature... Marwan A. Jabbar • 27 January, 2016 Nadrus MOOCs Dubai
Jordan University of Jordan launches entrepreneurship innovation center A look the University of Jordan's Innovation Center. (Image via UJ News Press Release) The University of Jordan recently announced that it... Samuel Wendel • 12 January, 2016 Injaz UJIC University of Jordan
U.A.E Makersbuilders joins the innovators of the Arab region Makersbuilders with parents and children filling up In5 in 2014. (Images via Makersbuilders) Gaps in the market, children... Pamela Kesrouani • 12 November, 2015 robotics MEMakers the cribb
Saudi Arabia Science at a young age: workshops for innovative Saudis A new generation of Saudis are relying on themselves to invent stuff instead of buying it, and TalentS is one of a... Safar Ayad • 14 October, 2015 children Science Saudi Arabia
Maghreb Science club to startup: Coursella targets Algerian education On the 2012 International Day of Pi, four Algerian computer science students launched a geeky science club they wanted to use to change... Rachel Williamson • 12 October, 2015 SAAS pinnovate coursella
Saudi Arabia How this Saudi app developer is nurturing talent [Update]: Ibtikar released a new trivia game called HEXA, with tens of thousands of questions in more than 15 different fields... Ahmed Gabr • 13 October, 2015