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Designer Reem Buqais on what it takes to succeed in fashion

“Anyone can design,” says Reem Buqais during an interview after the 2nd Annual Leading Women in Business Forum at The Capital Club Bahra...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: January 05-09

Running your startup In the last two weeks, there's been a lot of buzz around job titles and hierarchy within companies. With Medium and...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Turkey

What Turkey's economic struggles mean for its startups

Excitement about Turkey’s startups hit fever pitch last year. This time one year ago, The Economist anointed the country’s startup scene a...

Ecosystem

Startup news ticker: Bkam.com launches Chrome extension and Windows mobile app

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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Slow and steady: How Jordan's tasmeemME is building the Behance of the Middle East

In the Middle East startup scene, we’re often all too aware of the dangers of hype lately. Positivity keeps founders motivated, b...

tasmeemME

Et3arraf, the Middle East-focused dating site, announces $150,000 USD fundraising round

With his French business school diploma and his job at an international consulting firm, Cédric Maalouf was following the same path that ...

Dating service Seeqnce Social Networks

Palestinian startup MobiStine to launch free healthcare app for new parents

At the end of October 2013, Husni Abu Samrah returned to Palestine after spending five months in the United States. He had just completed...

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Can icecairo sustain a maker movement in Egypt, with government help?

Egypt’s political situation isn’t discouraging budding green entrepreneurs. If anything, the revolutionary spirit may have encouraged you...

icecairo

Wearables take the day at the CES show in Las Vegas

It seems like smartwatches won't be the hottest trend in wearables for long. Along with Google Glass, we’ve witnessed over the past c...

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Al Riwaq Art Space seeks to change how Bahrainis approach art [Wamda TV]

“One of our missions is to change the mindset of the people, not to take everything as it comes,” says Bayan Al-Barak Kanoo, founder of Bah...

culture arts Bahrain

Global

10 mistakes to avoid when speaking in public

At some point in our lives, we will most likely have to stand in front of people and present an idea or a project. While the experience...

Mistakes Expert Advice Top Lists

Startup news ticker: Integreight reaches its goal on Kickstarter in 6 hours; Kamel Al-Asmar in Forbes’ 30 Under 30

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

Egypt Crowdfunding Social Entrepreneurship

Narise Kamber, founder of Bahrain's Saffron Cafe, on scaling, funding, and passion [Wamda TV]

Saffron Café is one of Bahrain's fledgling success stories, having grown from one to four cafes over the course of just one year. The ...

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4 big developments in Moroccan web in 2013

With 2013 behind us, we can now take a moment now to reflect on all the online initiatives, cultural, and technological developments that...

morocco Online video Conferences

Can Egyptian reminder app Before Leaving compete with Evernote?

Who among us hasn’t lost their keys, phone, or wallet? This problem is addressed by the Before Leaving app launched a year ago by Egyptian ...

Startup news ticker: Google brings Android to cars; new platform for teachers and students

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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Kuwaiti startup Fishfishme secures $200K from angel investors to expand globally

Fishfishme, the online platform to book fishing charter boats, has announced a seed funding round of US $200,000 from several angel...

FishFishMe

ElSherka.com moves business management to the cloud

Rarely do entrepreneurs have all of the necessary skills to run all aspects of their own startups; often they excel in some...

business management management elsherka

What Uber’s leaked financials say about its surge pricing model

Uber’s revenues were leaked on ValleyWag this month, revealing that the car service company is potentially making far more than i...

Uber

8 tech conferences in the Middle East to attend in 2014

Tech conferences in the Middle East have contributed to the success of several startups Wamda has covered over the past few months,...

Conferences

Sohati wants to break the taboo of online medicine

Many entrepreneurs in are now trying to find solutions to make healthcare more accessible throughout the Middle East, a region facing...

Media Health Medical

HAXLR8R co-founder on what hardware trends to expect in 2014

HAXLR8R, the hardware-focused startup accelerator based between San Francisco and Shenzhen, China, hosted its third demo day...

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El Mashrou3, Egypt's first competitive reality show for entrepreneurs

It seems that entrepreneurship has not only impacted the Middle East economically, but in pop culture as well. Egypt recently celebrated...

Egypt

Nakhweh opens its social initiative to the crowd

If 2013 was the year of crowdfunding, 2014 shows no signs of slowing when it comes to startups leveraging the power of...

Nakhweh

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