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Rebuilding Babylon: New Opportunities in Iraq

The post-Saddam years, with the removal of sanctions and a new low-tax environment, created a bonanza of opportunities. Seven years later,...

Success Writ Large: Samih Toukan on Entrepreneurshp

Now CEO of the Jabbar Group of internet-focused companies, Samih Toukan made his name as one half of the Maktoob story. He hopes that his ...

Sharing Innovation: Kamal Hassan empowers SMEs

Palestinian-American entrepreneur Kamal Hassan believes solving creative problems through “open network innovation” can provide the cre...

The Net in Networking: Social Media in Jordan

Established and growing businesses in the region are making full use of the popularity – and opportunity – of social networking sites This a...

Entrepreneur in Focus: Mohammed Kilany

This article first appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Explorer, Aramex's thought-leadership magazine that investigates issues...

Meteorological Rise: Vimov's Weather HD App

This article first appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Explorer, Aramex's thought-leadership magazine that investigates issues...

Mobile Apps

Feroz Sanaualla of Intel Capital on Finding Funding

Access to financing might be a common problem for entrepreneurs, but Feroz Sanaulla, a leading regional investor, believes they first need...

Abdulsalam Haykal: SME Investment in Syria

He started as a 14-year-old by creating a graphic design company called ASH Works for Computer Arts. Now, Abdulsalam Haykal is CEO of...

The 5 M's of Mentoring

View a presentation from the Mowgli Foundation onthe 5 M’s of Mentoring; Motivation, Meaning, Model, Meme and Mind Set. 5m's ...

The Arab Technology Business Plan Competition

The Arab Technology Business Plan Competition is a regional Technology investment competition organized by Arab Science and Technology...

Middle East ‘Twice As Likely’ To Buy 3d TV As Rest Of The World

This article was originally posted by Al Bawaba News.According to a recent Nielsen report, the Middle East has more than double the...

BOOK REVIEW: Life Inc.

Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back Douglas Rushkoff Books lamenting the all-powerful corporation, the...

Wamda Recommends: The Rational Optimist

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves By Matt Ridley Matt Ridley is anything but a Malthusian. Far from predicting the impending...

BOOK REVIEW: Question, with Charles Saatchi

Question By Charles Saatchi The premise of the book is extremely straightforward: Charles Saatchi, a notorious recluse who has been...

BOOK REVIEW: Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone

Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay John Lanchester It’s perhaps telling when the testimonials on the cover of a finance ...

Arabic shows clear growth on Facebook

The rapid growth in Portuguese and Arabic is just the latest sign of the change taking place on Facebook. By Chris Morrison. This article...

Access-To-Finance: an Analysis of Egyptian Firms

by Ayman Ismail Access-to-finance is a key aspect of entrepreneurial development as well as economic growth in emerging economies. As...

Access-To-Finance and Economic Development

by Ayman Ismail Almost a century ago, an Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter(1), popularized the idea that entrepreneurship is at the...

Could Free Be Your New Path to Profitability?

Entrepreneurs in the tech space may have to build a business model around giving their product away for nothing and monetizing the audience...

The Rise of the Super Angel

A new class of investor in the Gulf looks to bridge the gap between seed-funding and venture capital. What will this mean for the region’s e...

BOOK REVIEW: Everything Bad is Good for You

It is perhaps of no little comfort that someone has decided that hours spent watching mass-market television, twitching thumbs and...

BOOK REVIEW: Mastering the VC Game

Business ideas are a dime-a-dozen. But as every entrepreneur knows, it’s getting hold of the dime that is the challenging part. Funding is t...

BOOK REVIEW: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take

It is perhaps a truism to suggest that people are more in thrall to stories than products, but it’s no less a telling an observation for i...

BOOK REVIEW: Prosperity Without Growth

There has long been a tug of war between the continual search for economic growth – endless, exponential and necessary – and the ava...

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