U.A.E Dubai: a city built on data [Wamda TV] Cities are not built on a whim, but today a new kind of data is used to sculpt modern metropoli from the bare bones of steel and... Rachel Williamson • 28 June, 2016 cellular data Dubai du
Global The Facebook factor: hacking social media for growth [Wamda TV] A business today with no social media presence is, frankly, an anomaly. Continuously, surveys show that the use of social media as a... Lucy Knight • 21 June, 2016 Step2016 Advertising Facebook
Regional StartUp Maroc Championship StartUp Maroc Championship is a disruptive event designed to bring together new and experienced entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, ... Wamda • 16 October, 2015 championship startup maroc entrepreneurs
Jordan Jordan's windy solution [Infographic] When it comes to natural resources, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is poor. According to the World Bank they import over 90 percent... Lucy Knight • 08 September, 2015 Taqetna Green Watts Wind Farms
Turkey The long hard road that earned $589 million A happy Nevzat Aydin in his Istanbul offices. (Image via Yemeksepeti) When Nevzat Aydin told his parents that he was returning to Turkey... Lucy Knight • 31 May, 2015 mergers & acquisitions online food delivery yemeksepeti
Regional Geeks on a Plane (#GOAP) Organized by 500 Startups, Geeks on a Plane (#GOAP) is an invite-only tour for startups, investors, and executives to learn about... Wamda • 23 September, 2015 mentoring Flights GOAP
Maghreb Can social entrepreneurship save Algeria? For a few years now, a group of optimistic and resilient Algerian students have worked against all odds to introduce the concept of social... Aline Mayard • 15 March, 2015 Algerian Center for Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneuriat social
Regional Ecommerce and MENA's travel sector boom [Infographic] It’s no secret that ecommerce in the Middle East and North Africa has grown substantially in the past few years. According to Visa,... Wamda • 26 February, 2015 Infographic E-commerce
Regional Preventing a dangerous rise of penny auction sites in MENA This article is a crosspost with Astrolabs. This note is meant to outline the danger of penny auction sites and prevent a potentially... Astrolabs • 05 March, 2015 bidaffairs fancybid penny auctions
Product placement 2.0: this app lets you buy what you see on TV Like Saphon Energy, Disrupt CK could well be the success story Tunisia has been waiting for. Like Saphon, a wind energy... Aline Mayard • 20 July, 2014 tunisia
Recently launched Egyptian app aims to help eliminate fake media reports During a heated political debate that took place in Cairo after the events of June 30th 2013, three Egyptians, freshly graduated from... Ahmed Gabr • 20 April, 2014 news Mobile
AstroLabs partners with Blackbox to send a Middle Eastern startup to Silicon Valley AstroLabs, the startup workshop series, is now joining ranks with the organizations working to connect startups in the Middle East with... Wamda • 26 November, 2013 tim draper blackbox silicon valley
Dubai+Acumen Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition Finale On November 23rd, ten aspiring social entrepreneurs will compete to win prizes worth over AED 150,000 at the Grand Finale of the Acumen f... Wamda • 21 November, 2013 Competitions Social Entrepreneurship
How a Lebanese telecom sees the local startup scene At our recent Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, we chatted with partner touch about their view of the Lebanese startup ecosystem and how they, as a m... Wamda • 24 October, 2013 Telecommunication Mobile
Palestinian entrepreneur looks to use Xbox Kinect for classroom education [Arabic] Inspired by the Xbox Kinect, a motion sensor by Microsoft developed for the Xbox 360 and redesigned for the upcoming Xbox 1,... Mariam Hamed • 14 October, 2013 palestine Gamification
Pioneers of Egypt Award, promoting social entrepreneurship, enters second round After the 2011 start of the Egyptian revolution and the subsequent unrest, social entrepreneurship organizations exploded onto the... Hanan Solayman • 09 October, 2013
New social game launches in Egypt, inspired by protests in Tahrir Square [Wamda TV] [Arabic] In the midst of Egypt's current tumult, a new social game on Facebook was recently launched to let players experience the events ... Hanan Solayman • 07 August, 2013 Egypt Gaming
Women entrepreneurs in Gaza develop new app for the blind [Wamda TV] [Arabic] “This is the beginning of a shift to smartphones and tablets in Gaza,” says entrepreneur Nidaa Wishah. Taking advantage of the gro... Mariam Hamed • 30 July, 2013 Women
How WebTeb is overcoming challenges to starting up in Palestine [Wamda TV] [Arabic] At the World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, Mahmoud Kaiyal, founder of Palestinian medical Arabic platform WebTeb, di... Wamda • 25 July, 2013 Healthcare Health Medical
Building a gamer community for women in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV] At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh, we chatted with Tasneem Salim, the cofounder of GCON, a community and annual conference for female gamers a... Wamda • 23 July, 2013 Community Mix n Mentor Mobile Gaming
Scaling an online reviews platform in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV] We met up with Jihad Alammar, the founder of Qaym, at Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh to discuss how his restaurant review site is scaling in Saudi Ar... Wamda • 22 July, 2013 Reviews Mix n Mentor Mobile
Can Microsoft help scale R&D in the Middle East? [Wamda TV] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Charbel Fakhoury, VP of Sales, Marketing, and Services at M... Nina Curley • 18 July, 2013 R&D Technology Ecosystem
How women in Saudi Arabia are being integrated into the workforce [Wamda TV] At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh, we chatted with Khalid AlKhudair the founder of Glowork.net, an online platform for job-seeking women in Sa... Wamda • 21 July, 2013 Mix n Mentor Team Programme
How student entrepreneurs are transforming Morocco's economy The May, before Enactus Morocco hosted its 10th annual entrepreneurship competition for students, we caught up with Touria Benlafqih, the... Nina Curley • 16 July, 2013 Students Competitions Social Entrepreneurship