Pioneers of Egypt Award Program by Etijah and the Synergos Institute Etijah, in collaboration with The Synergos Institute, is now accepting applications for the first... Wamda • 20 September, 2012 Competitions
Fadi Ghandour's Next Investment: Building a Future for Arab Social Entrepreneurship Fadi Ghandour's name has been synonymous with Arab entrepreneurship. In 1982 he established Aramex as an express operator for the Middle... Knowledge @Wharton • 06 September, 2012 Investment Social Entrepreneurship Wharton
Dell Social Innovation Challenge Event On Best Practices In Social Innovation Education The Dell Social Innovation Challenge is the largest global community of student social innovators and their supporters with more than 10... Wamda • 02 August, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship
Can Entrepreneurship Bring Change Where the Arab Spring Has Not? Gathered together around a wide table, the group of entrepreneurs in Dubai for this year's MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business... Knowledge @Wharton • 19 July, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship Wharton
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
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
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
15 Tips For Pitching to Investors from Culture Shift in Cairo Karen McGregor, a social investor from the Scottish investment firm FirstPort, gave a workshop during the Culture Shift event about how to... Omar Aysha • 14 May, 2012 Angel Investment Investment Negotiation
Creating a Culture Shift in Cairo Fill a room with equal numbers of people from the arts, software developers, NGO volunteers, and business professionals. Now sprinkle some ... Omar Aysha • 13 May, 2012 Digital Media Ecosystem Innovation
Lessons in Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll World Forum Last week, I attended the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, a real celebration of change makers, of humanity, of... Reem Khouri • 06 April, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship
Nominate a Social Entrepreneur for an Ashoka Fellowship Ashoka Arab World is looking for social entrepreneurs for its Fellowship program, who are social innovators with “System Changing Ideas” tha... Maya Rahal • 10 April, 2012 Innovation Social Entrepreneurship
Creating an Egyptian Economic Miracle at Startup Nation 2.0 “The vision is to get Egypt into the top 10 list of countries by GDP in 5 years time.” This vision brought together around 50 progressive Eg... Omar Aysha • 05 April, 2012 Angel Investment Innovation Investment
Want to Rent out That Spare Room? The Growing Popularity of 'Collaborative Consumption' The founders of Internet startup Airbnb were accustomed to rejection. Joe Gebbia, Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk peddled to venture... Knowledge @Wharton • 15 March, 2012 Coworking Spaces
Changing the World Isn't Easy: Advice for Social Entrepreneurs Inclusive capitalism, disruptive innovations, triple bottom line, scalability… My head is abuzz with catchy expressions after spending the p... Hala Hanna • 28 February, 2012 Social Entrepreneurship
Volunteer Platform Nakhweh Launches Campaign to Promote Social Change in Jordan Aspiring social entrepreneurs in Jordan now have another reason to push their ideas out the door. Nonprofit Nakhweh, which promotes... Nina Curley • 10 January, 2012
Social Startups See Surprise Wins at SME Advisors Awards In a domain where more established players typically take home the awards, two young socially-oriented startups received a boost at the SME... Nina Curley • 07 December, 2011
Volunteer Portal Nakhweh Launches New Platform for Startups Today, it’s even easier to get free labor at your startup. Nakhweh, a Jordanian volunteer-matching portal, just launched a new service a... Nina Curley • 02 October, 2011
A Call to Social Entrepreneurship in Lebanon As the recent TEDxBeirut event aimed to bring us ‘From Limitation to Inspiration,’ it followed the TED mandate to spread ideas that would in... Fernande van Tets • 26 September, 2011
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
MedESS 2013 Conference This year, spring will be about involvement in solidarity! That’s at least what MedESS 2013 is proposing. During 3 days, participants will b... Wamda • 21 February, 2013 Conferences Social Change Social Entrepreneurship
Why Startups Should Support Sustainability: MixnMentor Dubai Panel Part 7 [Wamda TV] Following the 6th segment of Wamda's MixnMentor Dubai Event, in which Muhammed Mekki discussed Namshi's approach to analytics, angel... Wamda • 02 January, 2013 Advice Fadi Ghandour Mix n Mentor
How Startups in Emerging Markets Can Lead a Sustainability Movement: Simran Sethi [Wamda TV] In a conversation with Wamda contributor and founder of GEDS Business consultancy Gulay Ozkan, journalist Simran Sethi explains how ... Gulay Ozkan • 21 June, 2012 Environment
Launching a Communal Incubator in Amman: Gel Together [Wamda TV] Founder Farah Ghniem and brand strategist Ayah Younis of Gel Together brought a dose of fun to the Amman Tech Tuesday anniversary event ... Nina Curley • 28 May, 2012 Ecosystem Investment Startup Communities
Creating a Culture of Hacking for Social Good in the Arab World [Wamda TV] Sana Odeh of Faculty Liaison for Global Programs of Computer Science at New York University and Affiliated Faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi,... Kamel Al-Asmar • 12 May, 2012 Education Social Entrepreneurship