Wamda

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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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Jordan

Do employers still care about your college degree?

Just how important is a university degree? It depends on the field of study and who you ask. Wamda posed this question to employers,...

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Regional

Get your code on in the MENA region

The Coding Cirlce in action. (Image via The Coding Circle) We have covered in the past various coding camps and courses, for both adults...

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Maghreb

How will technology change education in Algeria?

Crowded classrooms, teacher strikes - Algeria's education is not doing well. (Image via McIlwraith Education) Want a recipe for a perfect...

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Egypt

Getting kids into science? Egyptian entrepreneur uses solar energy cars [Video]

Teaching science to children can be a very challenging job. Not only do you need their full attention, but lessons need to be fun in order...

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Egypt

CORD's robot fights teach old physics in a new way

My Reaper Robot vs. your Crazy Minion: who will win? It depends, says Mohammed ElRaffie, founder of educational science startup CORD, on...

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Regional

MENA, birthplace for a digital health revolution?

Imagine waking up in the morning and checking your watch to see how many hours of deep, restful sleep you obtained, your caloric intake...

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Egypt

Egyptian coworking space aims to teach Arabic-speaking developers how to protect their online data

A coworking space for Egypt’s online security professionals is set to launch in August, and is aiming to make the Arabic-speaking d...

U.A.E

Dubai's Pixelbug launches highly anticipated edutainment app Colorbug

The coloring is taken to a whole other level. Are you a child between 4 and 10? Do you want to meet Patrick the Horse, Pablo the...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi startup Meshlytics uses data to help universities keep in touch with alumni

In the age of e-classrooms and e-schools, traditional universities have begun to compete with the free tools and flexibility of the...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s Rwaq team hope to create community of educators

This article has been crossposted from Firnas.org We are so close to an awakening in the Arab world. In the past three years there has been...

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U.A.E

Can live online tutoring shake up the Arab region's education sector?

Update: Teach Me Now announced moving to Azure, Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform, and becoming part of Microsoft BizSpark. This...

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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...

U.A.E

Ustad Mobile to scale mobile ed tech programs to the Middle East

Access to technology has long been seen as key to developing education programs in low-income countries, but the availability...

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