Wamda

Egypt

This Egyptian startup plans on regulating private tutoring

In the Arab world, including Egypt, many students at both public and private schools pay teachers extras for after-class private...

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U.A.E

How technology is transforming MENA youth’s education

As back-to-school season is approaching, now is the ideal time to reflect on the latest innovations in technology and how they might...

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Global

New startups on the block: September

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. Blink Egypt Development...

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Saudi Arabia

A Saudi teaching platform attracts a million students

One year following the failure of an ecommerce platform they had launched due to the lack of market readiness, Saudi entrepreneurs Mohammed...

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Saudi Arabia

Big opportunities for startups in KSA [Report]

The number of entrepreneurship support organizations in the KSA, including funds, coworking spaces, incubators and accelerators, has nearly...

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U.A.E

Minds on a Mission gets Emirati students thinking

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” were the wise words from Benjamin Franklin that inspired the win...

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Egypt

Education startups begin to break through in Egypt

Conservative dress codes hid a highly progressive approach to education during a meeting in Giza during November last year, which was...

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Turkey

Kiron, educational hope for refugees

The UN refugee agency says that as of 2015 there are 65.3 million individuals that have been forcibly displaced worldwide, most with little...

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U.A.E

Education + tech = a whole new world

Education and technology are often a contested pairing because of the latter’s potential to either serve as an aid or, undesirably, a...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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:...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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