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How Lebanese recipe portal Shahiya is empowering women in Saudi Arabia and abroad

Since we last checked in, Shahiya, the Beirut-based community recipe board, has made some serious strides. The site has grown to over...

expat cooking Saudi Arabia

Michel & Augustin at New Work Lab, Casablanca

New Work Lab, the Casablanca-based coworking space, is hosting a talk with Michel & Augustin, the two entrepreneurs who disrupted the...

The challenges of bootstrapping a mobile app as a single female founder in Lebanon

This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of young entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups. If you know someone who's...

Incubator Competitions Mobile

Will the new MAKE Business Hub kill business by charging for WiFi?

After founder Leith Matthews left MAKE Business earlier this year, (under what many say were difficult circumstances), the...

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3 startups tackling grocery e-commerce in Egypt

Over the past decade, online grocery stores have been popping up in the U.S. and around the world with relative success. Even Amazon.com...

Food & Beverage E-commerce

Meet the family business supporting food & beverage startups in Egypt [Wamda TV]

While it's easy to think 'tech' when you think about startup incubation, supporting non-tech startups is also critical for making an...

Incubator Accelerators Food & Beverage

Challenges to scaling in Dubai: A look at Wild Peeta [case study]

This is the third post in our new case study series, in partnership with the El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) at the A...

Scaling Food & Beverage

Scaling a lean startup in Iraq: how Easy Bites took Erbil by storm

Restaurants and fast food outlets are booming in Kurdistan. According to one official in Erbil, Kurdistan’s capital now boasts close to 5...

Addressing Online delivery Scaling

Restronaut Feeds Foodies and Founders in Dubai

Restronaut.me recently launched as an online-meets-offline startup by Dubai restaurateur Leith Matthews. Based on successful events at...

Startup Communities Food & Beverage

Rocket's HelloFood Launches in Saudi Arabia and Morocco; Can It Tackle the Middle East?

Yesterday, Rocket Internet expanded their HelloFood brand into Saudi, marking the German clone factory's first expansion of its...

Rocket Internet Food & Beverage Delivery

Meet Qatar's First Raw and Vegan Food Company

Qatar has one of the highest obesity rates in the world. About 40% of its citizens are obese, and experts predict that number could rise...

Organic Food Food & Beverage

5 Takeaway Questions from Arabnet Beirut 2013

Despite the conflict next door, Arabnet Beirut managed to rally a good crowd this year for new debates on the state of tech...

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Can Indian Review Site Zomato Satisfy the Gulf?

India's market of over 1 billion has been enough to sustain most of its tech startups, including success story FlipKart, the online book...

f&b Reviews Expansion

Who Loves Labneh? Lebanese Brand Krock's Eyes the Gulf

Day after day, Ramzi Jalbout and his colleagues would gather during their lunch break at St. Georges Hospital in Beirut. Usually 9-to-5ers...

Scaling Expansion Food & Beverage

Ethical Food Enterprise Panel, Social Enterprise Week

Part of a series of events for Social Enterprise Week, this session features social entrepreneurs who launched food enterprises discussing...

Conferences Environment Food & Beverage

Expanding Salad Boutiques from Kuwait to the GCC [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Doa’a Abdul Wahab, co-founder of A2D storage in Bahrain, and managing director of Sa...

Conferences Food & Beverage

Food-zilla Launches Customers Online Food Ordering Service for Dubai

The latest of several sites focused on food ordering and discovery in Dubai, Food-zilla launches today to focus on offering a personal...

Food & Beverage

Sallaty Brings Online Grocery Shopping to Jordan

When Samia Jarrar first met her husband, she had no idea that she would end up starting a company with him. But in 2011, six years after...

Delivery E-commerce Food & Beverage

Egypt's Tourism Gets Back on Its Feet at Rouqayah's Ranch

You think you're driving into the middle of nowhere, then thoughts of classic horror plots jump to mind. But once you arrive through...

Egypt Environment Food & Beverage

Arabic Cooking Community Shahiya Expands into English, Considers Tablet App

Fresh off of a round of Series A investment from MEVP, Shahiya is looking into new growth models as it continues to tackle the...

Arabic Content Food & Beverage Mobile

iFood's Mobile App Rises to the Top of the Food Delivery Pack in Jordan

Jordan has changed in a variety of ways since I lived there a year ago; perhaps a small win given the recent turmoil is that it’s become m...

Food & Beverage Mobile Mobile Apps

Jordan's Snax Revolutionizes the Convenience Store

As protesters in Jordan take to the streets to demonstrate against rising gas prices, one convenience store in Jordan is catering to...

Food & Beverage Music Security

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 18-22

This week was all about looking outside to identify and adapt solutions to problems within local ecosystems. What are your thoughts about...

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Staging a Culinary Coup: Zooba Reimagines Traditional Egyptian Food

When you walk into this little restaurant on the main street in Zamalek district, you can’t help it but notice its colorful front, which r...

Food & Beverage

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