Lessons in branding from the UAE This article has been cross posted with Wharton@Knowledge. Tucked away in the northernmost part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ras... Knowledge @Wharton • 06 August, 2014 INDUSTRY EMIRATES uae
Improving early education in Saudi: two women's stories This article has been crossposted with Knowledge@Wharton. Education today clearly ranks as a top priority for Saudi Arabia. The annual... Knowledge @Wharton • 29 July, 2014 early education ambassadors schools arabian child
Twofour54 and Lamsa: a partnership to support Arabic content for children Lamsa, the interactive children’s “edu-tainment” Arabic platform, has signed a long-term strategic partnership with twofour54, the comme... Maya Rahal • 27 July, 2014 early education Lamsa TwoFour54
Pakistan Turning Quran memorization into a social experience Following a two-hour Skype call, it seemed clear to me that entrepreneurship runs in the blood of Bilal Memon, a young Pakistani who was... Reine Farhat • 23 July, 2014 muslim quran QURAN ACADEMY
Young but growing fast: AUC's V-LAB announces third cycle in a year The American University of Cairo’s startup incubator Venture Lab, launched just a year ago, is now accepting applications for its t... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 01 July, 2014 university incubators AUC
Arabic MOOC platform Edraak launches to bring quality education to the region Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs as they are more commonly known – are online courses that are offered to large amounts of par... Hayden Pirkle • 15 June, 2014 edraak EdTech Education
Jordan What it took for this startup to sign large corporates Today, app development has become absolutely necessary for entrepreneurs and businesses alike. But many companies have difficulty... Reine Farhat • 12 June, 2014 Scaling Developers Jordan
Jordanian online music shop Feesheh expands into the UAE Between positive revenue growth in Jordan, a new partnership with Liwwa, and a victory at Seedstars World Amman, Nur Alfayez and... Robert Carroll • 03 June, 2014
Queen Rania of Jordan, in partnership with edX, launches Arabic MOOC platform Edraak With the launch yesterday of Edraak, a new Arabic MOOC platform, education professionals have made a new stride towards the development of ... Wamda • 20 May, 2014
Has MyVLE's Moroccan founder learned enough from two failures to finally achieve success? MyVLE is without a doubt one of the most hotly anticipated startups from Morocco. With its Moroccan and U.S.-based A-team, a well-designed... Aline Mayard • 05 May, 2014 morocco E-Learning Failure
Lebanon Lebanese developer overcomes technical challenges to launch Arabic mobile word game After attending a seminar about the lack of digital Arabic content at ArabNet 2012, Samer Hamandi came up with the idea of Charbaka, a... Reine Farhat • 24 April, 2014 Mobile Gaming Arabic Content Mobile
Afkartoon, a Palestinian startup specialized in educational cartoons [Wamda TV] [English subtitles] After a stint working in drawing and designing, Monzer Matrabie decided to launch Afkartoon to make educational ... Mariam Hamed • 13 March, 2014 palestine
Online Arabic music school i3zif kicks off the year with 3 ambitious new goals Just over a year after launch, the team at i3zif, the online Arabic music school, has kicked off 2014 with three ambitious new goals, says... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 24 February, 2014 oud Music Jordan
Startup Bahrain online magazine seeks to revolutionize the ecosystem I ran into Bader Kamal, a freelance graphic designer and photographer who is part of the Startup Bahrain team, after the online magazine... Leena AlOlaimy • 23 February, 2014 magazine content
Abjjad exceeded its goal on Eureeca by 30%; what's next for the Arabic reading social network? A few days ago, Abjjad became the first Arab cultural website to exceed its crowdinvestment target amount on Eureeca, the first ... Eman Mostafa • 26 February, 2014 Jordan books reading
Meet 8 Palestinian startups this Thursday in Amman! Join Endeavor, Gaza Sky Geeks, Fast Forward, Oasis500, and PALinnO this Thursday to get a taste of history in the making. For the first t... Wamda • 10 February, 2014 gaza sky geeks palinno Endeavor
Baraka Bits uses 'good news from the Middle East' to power positive change in the region “It’s OK if we don’t see thousands of views on our articles,” says Rama Chakaki, founder and CEO of news site Baraka Bits. “We’re willing t... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 06 February, 2014 baraka bits palestine Media
TIEC incubator now accepting applications The Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) is calling for applications to its next incubation cycle starting in April... Wamda • 11 February, 2014 technology innovation and entrepreneurship center tiec start it
TechGirls summer program to host 27 girls from the Arab region to study in the US US Embassies across the Arab region are now accepting applications for 2014’s TechGirls exchange program, which for two years now have s... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 02 February, 2014 usa legacy international techgirls
Online education platform Coursera blocks students in Syria and Iran UPDATE: Coursera has released a statement explaining the blocks on which Wamda reported here, stating that it has reinstated... Nina Curley • 27 January, 2014 Online courseware MOOCs
Wamda hosts MIT Media Lab innovation workshop in Abu Dhabi from Feb 24-27 To support the community of innovators throughout the Middle East, Wamda and MIT Media Lab are hosting a multi-day workshop to explore best... Wamda • 26 January, 2014 MIT Media Lab MIT Innovation
Pakistani entrepreneur launches social network for learning "We are the first social network that parents want their kids to use," says Hassan Siddiq, the CEO of DailyThem.es, a writing and review ... Ahmed Gabr • 19 January, 2014 E-Learning Technology Education
What are we talking about when we talk about innovation? Every industry has jargon: words people say to sound informed whose true meanings have been diluted from overuse. People who hear others... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 20 January, 2014 bayt.com scott berkun Innovation
Bahrain's Blossom Events to expand, founder Rasha Khunji says Rasha Khunji, founder of Bahrain’s Blossom Events, trains entrepreneurs on how best to plan their companies, in an attempt to help stem t... Wamda • 13 January, 2014 blossom events wamdatv Bahrain