Wamda

U.A.E

The case for accelerators in the UAE

Shahzad Bhatti is the founder and owner of the Co-Working PopUp, a community-driven coworking space and incubator for startups and small...

acceleration Accelerators

Jordan

The key to sustainable growth lies in Jordan's SMEs

Yara Asad is the project manager at Building Markets in Jordan where she focuses on assessing businesses and their investment...

sme amman Report

Regional

How can consumers take back control of their data?

By Ankit Chaudhari, CEO and founder of Aiisma, a data management software and hardware company with headquarters in Las Vegas and an...

data privacy

Palestine

Is the Palestinian diaspora key to enabling local startups?

Diyala Abdlrasul and Ghassan Taha Amayra are the co-founders of MENACatalyst The Palestinian plight is not a foreign...

Palestinian Diaspora palestine

Regional

How Middle East startups can win on social

Lama Abdelbarr leads on digital communications for Middle East & Africa at Talkwalker, a social media analytics platform uses...

Social Media Digital Marketing how to

Regional

What makes a good entrepreneurship hub?

Recently, we published a feature on the battle of the startup hubs in the Middle East. There are several cities across the region,...

entrepreneurship Ecosystem

Regional

Can corporates in Mena change the entrepreneurial landscape?

Omar Al Sharif is the director of partner programmes at Wamda Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) are eager to...

intrapreneurship Corporate entrepreneurship corporate venture capital

Global

How blockchain can enable economic inclusion of refugees

Jessica Camus is Head of Partnerships and Impact at Diginex. Chris Hambarsoomian is Senior Associate, Government Solutions at...

Refugee Refugee Camps syria

Saudi Arabia

Who can prepare Saudi Arabia for the future?

Sofana Dahlan is one of the first ten female lawyers authorised to practice law in Saudi Arabia. She is also the president and founder...

saudi vision 2030 change

Lebanon

The challenges facing Lebanon's fashion ecosystem

Christina Chehade is the managing director at Endeavor Lebanon Lebanese designers have been rising in the ranks, dominating...

Fashion fashion supply chain

Regional

The challenge of delivering goods on time

Faris Fallouh is the Global Express and ground services director at Aramex Peak seasons such as Eid, Christmas and the many popular...

E-commerce aramex Delivery

Global

We are stuck in the middle of a technological cold war

As the US government banned China’s Huawei from purchasing US goods and services last week, many were left wondering whether their...

Huawei US china

Regional

The three blind spots of social entrepreneurs

Suzan Elsayed is a Google Policy Fellow at Wamda and an independent researcher focusing on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and future of...

social impact Social Entrepreneurship

Global

Artificial Intelligence: a blessing or a curse waiting to unfold?

The notion that computers could one day “think” or supersede human intelligence is not a new one. It was Ada Lovelace, an...

Artificial intelligence AI machine learning

Regional

Governments across the Arab region must work together to foster digital growth

Dr. Simon Galpin is the managing director of the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) where he leads in foreign direct investment...

Bahrain Economic Development Board Bahrain wef

Regional

The Middle East’s snail-pace to the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Suzan Elsayed is a Google Policy Fellow at Wamda and an independent researcher focusing on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and future of...

Fourth Industrial Revolution wef Education

Regional

How investors can support entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa

The potential for entrepreneurship in the region is high, based on digital consumption and a startling increase in investment funding for...

Investment Venture Capital

Regional

Careem's sale to Uber and how it affects the Mena startup ecosystem

I would have liked Careem to go public and remain independent because that is how you make the biggest statement about the maturity of the...

careem Uber acquisition

Regional

The anatomy of an exit in the Middle East

Khaled Talhouni is the managing partner at Wamda Capital Anyone active in the startup scene today seems to be pre-occupied with when and...

Venture Capital Exit strategies exiting

Regional

The rise of the micro influencer

Social media influencers in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region command some of the highest fees in the world, but their...

Branding Social Media influencer marketing

Regional

Can the digital era bridge the gender divide?

With International Women’s day approaching on 8 March, it is perhaps a timely reminder of the stark gender divide across the Middle...

Education STEM gender issues

Global

East Africa’s thriving tech ecosystem

By Maryam Mgonja, associate for East Africa at Seedstars Africa, home to more than 1.2 billion people, of whom over 60 per cent make up...

africa Kenya startup

Regional

Is your education limiting your career options?

Hisham Elaraby Regional Director at Udacity Mena There is an enormous gap between the size of the opportunity and the...

Education Learning upskill

Regional

The Middle East’s technological forte is in the food sector [Opinion]

As Gulfood draws to a close in Dubai this week, one of the biggest exhibitions in the region, the appetite for food is palatable [all puns...

food Food accelerator Innovation

Thought Leadership

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