Geekfest Beirut 5.0: Where Geeks, Fashion And Music Will Gather This year Beirut hosts the 5th edition of Geekfest, subtitled “Fashion & Music”, which will take place at The Alleyway Group, Gemmayze o... Wamda • 27 June, 2012 Entertainment Fashion
Jordanian Gaming Studio Wizards Productions Pivots into Mobile 2012 marks a new era for Wizards Productions, which today announced a publishing agreement with 6waves, a leading international social and... Nina Curley • 19 June, 2012 Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming
Innovative Green Energy and Tech Entrepreneurs Shine at TED@Tunis At this point, many are familiar with the TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) talk series, which first brought experts together in... Alia Mahmoud • 14 June, 2012 Conferences Social Entrepreneurship Saphon
Sneak Peek of Upcoming Restaurant Discount Site RoundMenu We received word today that a new site has soft launched to offer discounts exclusively for restaurants in Dubai: RoundMenu. As daily deals... Nina Curley • 11 June, 2012 Food & Beverage
Vote for the Future You Want In the Sustainable Development Dialogues, or Rio+20 Dialogues, over 10,000 experts, stakeholders, and academics from a variety of ... Nina Curley • 10 June, 2012 Ecosystem Social Entrepreneurship
MENA Investor-Backed Job Search Platform Identified Scores $21m in Series B: What's Next? Job search platform Identified, that aims to become the LinkedIn for the next generation of Facebook-focused entrepreneurs, took a huge... Nina Curley • 06 June, 2012 Investment Job Recruitment LinkedIn
CoE E-Commerce Unites MENA with Global Debut of Google Hangouts On Air During day 2 of CoE E-commerce, Wamda leaped over geographical borders, carrying interested crowds from Beirut, Cairo and Dubai, who could... Maya Rahal • 04 June, 2012 CoE E-Commerce COE
7 Tips and Confessions from Day 2 of CoE E-Commerce CoE E-Commerce, our CoE event focused on the E-Commerce sector, concluded yesterday after a second day jam-packed with "Wamdat" talks and... Nina Curley • 04 June, 2012 CoE E-Commerce E-commerce COE
Debates and Mentorship at Day One of CoE E-Commerce Who says a conference has to be an endurance test that makes you crave a coffee break? At Day 1 of CoE E-Commerce, as the Mentors Lunch and... Nina Curley • 03 June, 2012 CoE E-Commerce E-commerce COE
The Way Forward for Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt The fundamental role of women in Egypt’s revolution and growing its economy was the focus of the event “Co-Creation: Women and Ent... Omar Aysha • 28 May, 2012 Ecosystem Education Women
TEDxTanta Delivers Energy and Passion As a Cairean I tend to think there’s little of interest in Egypt outside Cairo, and maybe Alexandria. So I was pleased to have my p... Omar Aysha • 24 May, 2012 Ecosystem Innovation Social Entrepreneurship
Wixel Studios to Return to Arabic Mobile Games with New Investment When Wixel Studios was started by Ziad Fehali, Reine Abbas and Karim Abi Saleh in 2007, it was one of the first companies to appear... Fernande van Tets • 29 May, 2012 Mobile Gaming
Tomorrow is about Innovation & Scale [Pic of the Week] Often when building a company, we're so heads down just trying to get day-to-day operations running properly that we forget to look up and... Wamda • 31 May, 2012 CoE Cards CoE E-Commerce Pic of the Week
Middle East Social Entrepreneurship Faces Challenges, but No Shortage of Volunteers The Arab Spring brought tumult to the Middle East, but the demonstrations have also ushered in new aspects to civil life in Arab society.... Knowledge @Wharton • 31 May, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship
Can't Attend CoE E-Commerce? Wamda is Hosting Google Hangout Meetups in Cairo, Beirut and Dubai If you can't attend CoE E-Commerce in Amman and are based in either Cairo, Beirut or UAE, read on. We will be hosting a meetup with lunch... Wamda • 25 May, 2012 CoE E-Commerce COE
How To Prepare for CoE E-Commerce Day 1: Mentorship And Unconference Sessions Get ready for Day 1 of CoE, where you will experience a unique, attendee-driven agenda.1. First we will have “Lunch with Mentors.”During the... Wamda • 23 May, 2012 CoE E-Commerce Conferences COE
The Final Showdown at AUC's Product Innovation TV Show The Hit Hundreds of rowdy AUC undergrads cheered on as the MC presented the teams. There was cheering, a buzzing atmosphere, and plenty of... Omar Aysha • 17 May, 2012 Education Startup Communities Competitions
Get Ready for CoE E-Commerce: Speakers and Program Announced Get ready for CoE E-Commerce. Here's the breakdown: the first day will have a fully attendee-driven agenda. You'll get the chance to... Wamda • 17 May, 2012 CoE E-Commerce COE
How to Design Better Customer Experience by Acting Has designing your business service been entertaining? I was introduced to a quick, fun and effective method during Sarah Drummond’s s... Omar Aysha • 15 May, 2012 Education Entertainment Innovation
Egyptian Company KarmSolar Wins HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament 2021 The HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament, held this past Monday and Tuesday in Dubai, challenged entrepreneurs to produce innovative... Nina Curley • 10 May, 2012 Green Energy Innovation Environment
Step Mini-Conference Draws Dubai Entrepreneurs to Discuss Creativity and Innovation On Friday April 6th artists, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered for the STEP Mini-Conference, a forum for ideas and inspiration... Kia Davis • 10 May, 2012 Coworking Spaces Startup Communities
Entrepreneur of the Week: Saudi Entrepreneur Deem Al-Bassam Pivots from Failure into Success [Wamda TV] [This video is no longer available.] Saudi entrepreneur Deem Al-Bassam speaks to Wamda from her residence in Dubai, describing what went... Nina Curley • 08 May, 2012 Failure Entrepreneur of the Week Food & Beverage
Why Toolkits Are Essential for Innovation and Education So how do you fit a cube-shaped canister into a cylindrical hole using only Moon rock plastic bags, cardboard, suit hoses, and... Oubai Elkerdi • 02 May, 2012 Education Innovation
Announcing CoE E-Commerce on June 2nd and 3rd After the success of Celebration of Entrepreneurship in 2010 and CoE Animate 11 this past fall, Wamda is kicking off the next in its series... Wamda • 30 April, 2012 E-commerce COE CoE E-Commerce