Regional Can audiobooks inspire more Arabs to read? [Wamda TV] Rawan Barakat, the founder of Raneen. (Image via Wamda) Studies have shown that Arab citizens hardly care about reading - dedicating... Kamel Al-Asmar • 11 October, 2016 Rawan Barakat Raneen Raneen Media
Scopio aims to become the Getty Images of social media Social media has popularized videography and photography to an extent where 2 to 4 billion images are pushed out every day. Amidst the... Stefania D'Ignoti • 02 October, 2016 Scopio user generated content Media
Jordan Hello World Kids teaches programming in Jordanian schools After Hanan Khader travelled to Silicon Valley in 2013 to represent her Jordanian company Aqar-Estate as part of the TechWomen program, she... Tala El Issa • 27 September, 2016 Hello World Kids Jordan Hanan Khader
Regional Startup Watch: glass ceilings, Gods and Men, and death to the MVP The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Rachel Williamson • 15 September, 2016 Startup Watch MOBAltyics falafel games
Lebanon Kids Genius: a young makers heaven in Lebanon [Video] At Kids Genius, the boring connotations of the word ‘education’ is masked by a sense of creativity and fun. This classroom... Dana Ballout • 30 August, 2016 Kids Genius lebanon INDUSTRY
Regional Making the best of a child’s addiction In the 90s, parents hid Gameboys from their children on high shelves and under heavy mattresses. This year, with face-to-screen time at... Dana Ballout • 16 August, 2016 Play My Way children Education
Egypt How the Arab Spring planted seeds of innovation in Egypt [Podcast] This podcast is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The 2011 uprising in Egypt that saw the overthrow of longtime President Hosni... Knowledge @Wharton • 27 June, 2016 philanthropy Ahead of the Curve Egypt
Regional When MENA investors don’t bank on women For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they... Brooke Anderson • 27 June, 2016 Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital
Egypt 15 Egyptian fashion startups for your sartorial radar Ecommerce is a driving force for economic growth in the Middle East. And with this growth of ecommerce has come a slew of ... Maysaa Ajjan • 13 June, 2016 Maison Saedi ZAAM UpFuse
U.A.E Doctoruna: making healthcare accessible in MENA Since they launched in 2013, healthcare appointment website and mobile app Doctoruna has been on a mission to minimize the all too... Archana Menon • 02 June, 2016 DoctorUna MEMakersGE Bayt
Jordan Meet the 16-year olds who brought the NASA Space Apps hackathon to Jordan The pilots of NASA Space Apps Amman: Rasha Khateeb (left) and Maram Abu Hussein (right). (Images via Sam Wendel) The countdown to Jordan’s ... Samuel Wendel • 11 May, 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge Zain Group MEMakersGE
Lebanon Equipping the next generation of Lebanese girls with STEM Event participants take a group photo during the closing ceremony of the event (Image via Girls Got IT) "I used to think technology was... Ayman Farhat • 17 March, 2016 STEM Girls Got IT MEMakersGE
Regional The female VCs of MENA Noor Sweid and Hala Fadel. (Image via Leap Ventures) There are two common complaints in the Middle East startup sector: a lack of funding,... Lucy Knight • 12 November, 2015 MIT Enterprise Forum GCC MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Zen Yoga
Regional Beirut's first hackathon for women breaks stereotypes MENA's future developers pause for a photo at the She Develops hackathon. (Images via Karim Shehab) A lot has been said about the... Ayman Farhat • 26 November, 2015 android developers She Develops app developers
Jordan Fellowship for young women entrepreneurs connects rising stars from US and Jordan Yara Al-Khader, founder and CEO of SA3ED.ME, pitches to judges during Demo Day at ZINC. (Images via Sam Wendel) “Recommendation s... Samuel Wendel • 03 November, 2015 Privail Kuli Kuli Kollectco
Saudi Arabia Meet Fatima Batook: the woman who helped make Saudi women’s gyms a reality again Women in Saudi Arabia who wish to go to the gym can do so once again, thanks to the lobbying and entrepreneurial efforts of one woman:... Reine Farhat • 05 October, 2015 Saudi Arabia Health Women
Egypt The Egypt teen cracking the fuel crisis Azza Faiad’s passion for science started in a taxi ride late in 2010, a ride which sparked a potentially multibillion dollar idea to create ... Sara Aggour • 30 September, 2015 pyrolysis EPRI alternative energy
Saudi Arabia How this Saudi app developer is nurturing talent [Update]: Ibtikar released a new trivia game called HEXA, with tens of thousands of questions in more than 15 different fields... Ahmed Gabr • 13 October, 2015
U.A.E Ro’Ya: Developing the UAE’s female entrepreneurs 2015 applicants attend a Ro'Ya workshop. (Images via Ro'Ya) Women are driving entrepreneurship in the UAE, and the people behind the... Rachel McArthur • 07 September, 2015 Dubai Business Women Council Baby Arabia VentureFin
Lebanon What I know about Circular 331: Marianne Hoayek Marianne Hoayek at BDL Accelerate in November 2014. (Image via BDL) Lebanon’s Central Bank first announced that it would be taking special ... Lucy Knight • 23 August, 2015 Le Wagon UK Lebanon Tech Hub Leap Ventures
U.A.E UAE creates future female robotics entrepreneurs The UAE could produce MENA’s next wave of female robotics and hardware entrepreneurs, as technology programs throughout the Emirates... Maysaa Ajjan • 11 August, 2015 robotics uae abu dhabi
Saudi Arabia Misreading Saudi entrepreneurship [Opinion] When looking at it from the outside, Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurship potential appears very different to the reality. There are arrogant m... Nader Ajami • 29 July, 2015 entrepreneurship Saudi Arabia Women
Regional Beauty is in the eye of the app-holder No smartphones here. Advances have been made in the beauty industry also. (Image via Getty Images) According to the latest statistics by... Rachel McArthur • 19 July, 2015 Spoilee Vaniday BEEM
Regional Ramadan advice and exercise tips: how this women's Arabic platform is attracting viewers With more than 13 million total views on its YouTube channel, Loolia, a digital platform that connects Arab women with lifestyle experts in... Esraa Haidar • 08 July, 2015 Loolia arabic media Digital Arabic Content