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Fun startup events are possible, just ask this #YMEstartup organizer

Your Middle East is one of a new generation of media sites focusing on the Arab region, seeking to shift how news here is covered. Similar...

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LinkedIn of Arabia? Egypt’s answer to the recruitment question

It is often the case that entrepreneur experts advise those in their field not to think of regional expansion before their project has...

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From Saudi to the US: selling camel milk as the new superfood

A Palestinian raised in Saudi, Walid Abdul-Wahab moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to study at USC, where he discovered how health-conscious a...

Lebanon

Mix N' Mentor is back in Beirut this September. Sign up now!

The next stop on Wamda’s 2014 Mix N’ Mentor Roadshow, Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, will take place on September 27th, 2014. This will be the first...

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Where there's waste, there's money to be made

This article has been cross posted with Knowledge@Wharton. Food scraps. Refrigerators. Stoves. Dead animals. Fishermen’s nets. The in...

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5 easy ways to green your MENA startup

Time and money are precious when building a startup. Because going green is often seen as expensive on both fronts, and because it’s a r...

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Community puts Impact Hub Dubai ahead of the pack

Impact Hub Dubai launched on 14 January this year into an ecosystem becoming increasingly crowded with startup-friendly venues. But CEO...

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Lebanon

twofour54 invests in Arabic online game developer Falafel Games

Falafel Games, the designer and producer of Arabic Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), just received...

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WebTeb goes mobile with Arabic language app

Leading Arabic health and lifestyle portal Webteb has announced the launch of its mobile WebTeb App, the first of its kind in...

webteb Health

Next 10 years is key for MENA's long-term sustainability, says Badr Jafar

Badr Jafar speaking at UN Headquarters in New York. Working in the entrepreneurship sector you hear optimism all the time – especially in t...

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Women-led startups in Google's #40Forward network have raised $20M USD this year

In March, Google for Entrepreneurs launched a campaign called #40Forward, to provide program assistance and $1 million USD in aggregate...

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5 tips to start thinking creatively

We hear a lot about creative thinking, but what does that really mean? Lebanese startup Innovo has one idea. The Lebanese...

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ZaiGood, the startup incubator where employees give clients just 20% of their time

Zak el Fassi is an unusual entrepreneur. He’s never sent me a press release, nor pitched me his project during startup events. But I keep h...

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Lebanon

PinPay leads mobile payments trend in Lebanon

Mobile phones in emerging markets are still widely used for texting, making phone calls, taking pictures, reading news, and using...

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How Game Cooks' side project became its newest attraction

It's all about the screen tap. (Images courtesy of Game Cooks) In a departure from their usual games, which...

game cooks lebanon

How this entrepreneur hacked Dubai's lunch rush (and increased his sales by 300%)

“I’m working towards the day when a grouchy cab driver or a famished corporate professional, in the middle of a particularly monotonous day...

Aramex launches logistics support network for regional entrepreneurs

Aramex and Infofort are launching a new program that focuses on helping startups and SMEs across their network. Aramex and Infofort ...

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Indian social entrepreneurs facilitate funding for MENA non-profits

Earlier this year, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner posted a blog post on the site calling for an app that could generate random acts of...

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Jordan

Tamatem Games' secret to 2 million downloads in 2 months

Amman-based games publisher Tamatem announced last week that they had hit 4 million downloads. When Wamda spoke to them this week that...

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Here's how group messaging app Palringo raised $230,000 for Syria and Gaza this Ramadan

Palringo, a London-headquartered group messaging and gaming app for iOS and Android launched in 2006, used its 27 million-strong user...

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15 funny a-ha! moments from successful entrepreneurs [Infographic]

It only takes a second, a sudden impulse, to realize that you actually have an idea. This moment usually comes after individual research,...

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Here's how Mounia Rkha walks the line between the entrepreneurship and VC worlds

Mounia Rkha is not your average investor or entrepreneur. The former analyst at Ventech, the famous French venture capital fund, has...

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Global

How Lebanese 3D-mapping pioneer Louay Eldada shares his success with the MENA

Leaving behind his Beirut childhood, Louay Eldada went off to New York City to attend Columbia University. The PhD he earned there is in...

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Palestine

How these two Arab startups are joining forces to support #Gaza

More and more individual and collective initiatives are being launched every day across the Arab region – and the whole world for that m...

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