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Egypt's energy crisis forces increased interest in clean tech

A year ago, Karim Mostafa, CEO of solar energy solutions provider Gaia, was struggling to get anyone to listen to his...

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Virgin MENA’s Nisreen Shocair: Transforming a record store into an entertainment destination

This article has been reposted from Knowledge@Wharton. Sir Richard Branson founded Virgin Megastores in 1971. Forty years later, after a...

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Namshi hops on the World Cup bandwagon, launching Namshi Koora

At a time when it seems everyone's attention is squarely on the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Namshi.com, the luxury e-commerce site ...

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What this Bahraini entrepreneur learned after turning down a $2M exit opportunity

At 24 years old, Bahraini entrepreneur Zaman Abdulhameed Zaman was worth more than $1 million USD. Today, the 30 year old runs Zaman...

Jeeran releases Windows Phone app following Nokia partnership

It’s been a while since Wamda has written about pioneering Jordanian user review platform Jeeran, but it doesn’t mean that the startup has ...

Windows Phone app

Saudi Arabia

Two young Saudis launch free e-magazine to foster entrepreneurship

Novice entrepreneurs can be reluctant to launching their own businesses due to lack of knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship....

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Maghreb

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus kicks off global accelerator program in Tunisia

As Tunisia begins to overturn years of economic inefficiencies, stagnant creativity, and systemic corruption, entrepreneurship has begun...

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Could Gaza's fourth Startup Weekend be a turning point for the ecosystem?

Attending Gaza’s fourth Startup Weekend was one of the best experiences I’ve had in the Arab startup ecosystem. Some of the ...

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Jabbar invests in News Group, strengthening regional media-tech ties

Earlier this month, the investment firm Jabbar Internet Group announced a deal with Dubai-based news management company News Group...

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PIVOT, a Palestinian app to preserve historical memory, honored by Harvard

Among the Palestinian diaspora, across the region and world, the danger of forgetting one’s history is very close to the s...

Pivot Competitions

14 regional accelerators that can put your startup in the fast lane

Two and a half years ago, we published a selection of 10 Accelerators in the Middle East and North Africa, most of which at the time were...

Accelerators

How Elmenus is leveraging the trend of Egyptian food going digital

Egyptians are increasingly combining their love of food – the product on which they the majority of their yearly incomes – with the sur...

ElMenus Food delivery Delivery

Obsessing about customers, office culture, and clean books: watch top serial entrepreneurs share advice

To wrap up our fourth Mix N' Mentor event in Amman after a day spent workshopping startup challenges and discussing regional...

Mix n Mentor Jordan

Zain Jordan embarks on CER with a series of activities

Telecom company, Zain Jordan, has taken a big step into actioning its Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility program and helping e...

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He climbed Everest, started a company and is now aiming for space. Leadership lessons from Omar Samra

If Egypt’s entrepreneurship world has a movie star celebrity, it is undoubtedly Omar Samra. In a country without a mainstream outdoor c...

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3 founders share tips on how to recruit and manage freelancers abroad [Part 2]

A few days ago, Herve Cuviliez, Talal Jabari, and Kamal Bouskri, founders of Diwanee, Fariqak and MyVLE respectively,...

Off-shore Developers Tips

Gaming studio stops developing games, pivots into do-it-yourself platform

Alaa-eddine Kaddouri has a dream: to create the first MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in HTML5. It sure is an...

Pivot games

Partnerships, VCs and content: best practices from experts at Mix N’ Mentor Amman

Last week, Wamda organized its 14th Mix N’ Mentor and its fourth in Amman, Jordan. The event was supported by our strategic partners Zain J...

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Why and when should your startup outsource offshore? [Part 1]

Regional

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