Wamda

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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Egypt

3 Cairo coworking spaces offering a new approach to education

A reduction in rent costs is no longer the only reason for coworking spaces to trend in Egypt, rather, the expansion is looking to include...

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Maghreb

Morocco's Education Media Company raises $280,000 on the strength of an unusual story

The 9rayti team. Adam Bouhadma is only 24, and has just raised 2.5 million Moroccan dirhams ($280,000) for his company Education...

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Egypt

Egypt ed-tech firm eyes home turf for expansion [Wamda TV]

One of Egypt’s earliest technology companies is beginning to venture into its local education market, having already conquered the...

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Kuwait

Kuwait's myU shows promise in beta; can it scale?

Social networking is seen in many schools and colleges as a distraction best avoided for students aiming for the top grades. But for Bader...

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Jordan

For Arabic educational digital content turn to Jordan

What Jordan lacks in natural resources it makes up for in human resources. Pioneering as a key entrepreneurial tech hub for the Arab world,...

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U.A.E

Language game app to take the pain out of learning

The growth of online learning products has created a huge range of ways to learn a foreign language, from the comprehensive-but-pricey...

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Global

A university instructor's take on how to foster entrepreneurship in the classroom

The author with one of her classes at Lebanese International University. They say that entrepreneurship can’t be taught, however, my e...

Education

Regional

Lesson One: Mapping Education Technology Startups in the MENA

Education is a powerful tool. Those of us privileged enough to get a good education often forget that for the majority of people around...

Wamda Research Lab EdTech Education

Entrepreneurial internship program launched in Ramallah

Leaders Organization (LO), a Palestinian NGO providing skill development and services to young entrepreneurs and startups, has launched ...

SEA Xchange Algeria, deadline August 23rd

The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator Exchange, SEA Xchange, is an intensive one-week learning program of social entrepreneurship that...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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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...

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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 ...

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