Uber and Careem: a yellow cab's worst nightmare in Jordan

“We don’t need Uber or Careem, the yellow cab is the boss,” chanted yellow cab drivers protesting outside Jordan’s...

Tala El Issa • 01 December, 2016

Uber careem Jordan

300 days of sunlight a year: a look at Jordan's solar sector

Jordan’s latest solar energy deal with a UAE company marks the largest power plant to be built on Jordanian soil. The deal, along...

Tala El Issa • 28 November, 2016

solar energy Jordan Solar panels

Health tech in MENA: How do you say measles, mumps and rubella in Arabic?

“Now is the era of systems that learn. It’s like [sending] a child to school. You teach them to read and digest information....

Dana Ballout • 14 November, 2016

ICT MENA Forum Watson big data

Communication key to soothing rocky VC-startup romance

Part of a maturing ecosystem are the growing pains that go along with it. As startups continue to pop up, so do VC funds, but like any...

Dana Ballout • 13 November, 2016

Funding Investment VC

Redesigning Amman's urban culture

When graffiti artist Mike Derderian paints Amman’s walls, he feels the city beneath his fingertips. He is determined to merge his...

Tala El Issa • 27 October, 2016

Amman Design Week amman Design

Children invent to impress at Amman exhibition

Nearly two dozen Jordanian children were creating some very adult ideas over the weekend. The six inventions at the Little...

Tala El Issa • 26 October, 2016

Jordan children Little Innovator Lab

What I know about industrial design: Sahar Madanat

How do single-handed people eat? Is it possible to reduce the six million deaths per year as a result of heart attacks? What drives people...

Tala El Issa • 24 October, 2016

Game of Drones

Sager1, in collaboration with ZAIN Jordan will be conducting the first "Build your own Mini Quad-copter", a 3-day hands-on...

Wamda • 14 October, 2016

Drones Jordan Workshop

Hack&Pitch Amman

Whether you are a bootstrap founder, engineer, software hacker, student, or mentor/ investor interested in mobile...

Wamda • 13 October, 2016

Jordan ZINC hackathon

Home-cooked food gets a taste of delivery services in Jordan

When Marwan Oklah Al Zou'bi and Adam Barghouti were studying indoors during Canada’s harsh winters, ordering homemade food...

Tala El Issa • 13 October, 2016

Jordan Delivery Homecooked meals

GJU Green Hackathon

The Green Hackathon is the third step of the “Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program” at the German...

Wamda • 12 October, 2016

Jordan hackathon green tech

Nestrom and how to feed the next two billion

Over half a century ago, the introduction of pesticides and modified irrigation systems helped save one billion people from famine,...

Tala El Issa • 09 October, 2016

Agriculture Nestrom Yousef Wadi

DealMakers 2016

Take part in DealMakers 2016, Endeavor Jordan's exclusive annual event. In its 4th edition, the event aims to elevate the conversation...

Wamda • 05 October, 2016

Jordan Endeavor Networking

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

MENA ICT Forum 2016: digitizing the economy

The MENA ICT Forum brings some of the region’s most significant ICT experts, decision makers, and industry players together in...

Wamda • 23 September, 2016

Jordan ict conference

Amman Design Week breathes life into the city and its people

Amman is a city of concrete. There is barely a body of water or extensive greenery. It is arid, hilly with very little vibrant color. So...

Tala El Issa • 12 September, 2016

Amman Design Week Jordan makerspaces

Rebootkamp's first wave of refugee coders in Jordan

After fleeing from war torn Taiz, Yemen six months ago, Rwaida Almehanni found herself feeling aimless in Jordan. The 27-year-old wanted to...

Samuel Wendel • 08 September, 2016

Rebootkamp Jordan refugees

Oasis500, on a fintech hunt

Jordan, with its progressive startups and small population, could be a good regional test market for fintech products looking to head to...

Lucy Knight • 31 August, 2016

Oasis500 Jordan Payfort

No labels, please: hybrid indie design spaces are trending in Amman

Across the vibrant colored stairs extending from the renowned King Hussein street that curls its way down to the center of Amman, stands a...

Tala El Issa • 22 August, 2016

Amman Design Week Design Art

F03 Female Founders Meetup #2

F03 Fellow Female Founders series aims to build and activate a vibrant community around female startup founders in Amman. The event is set...

Wamda • 16 August, 2016

ZINC Networking female entrepreneurs

Decorating Jordan’s homes with its trash

It all started in one of the oldest bookstands in downtown Amman when unemployed Alaa Ziadeh decided to build things... using his...

Tala El Issa • 10 August, 2016

Jordan Environment Green entrepreneurs

Seedstars Amman

SEEDSTARS WORLD IS COMING TO AMMAN TO FIND THE BEST STARTUP IN JORDAN On August 7th, Jordan’s best startups will compete to...

Wamda • 06 August, 2016

Amman Design Week 2016

A group of Jordanian designers and creatives with a passion for art, design and culture has brought us together to create a new and...

Wamda • 04 August, 2016

Jordan Design Amman 2016

Zain Jordan wants you to ditch your console and grab your phone

There isn’t a better example than Pokémon Go to highlight the crucial role of mobile in the gaming industry. Several of the...

Tala El Issa • 03 August, 2016

tamatem Gaming Telcos