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WeMENA Resilient Future [call for applications]

Women Entrepreneurs for a Resilient Future in the Middle East and North Africa (WeMENA) is a business model challenge launched to...

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Palestine

Gaza’s Swift Braille helps the blind use smartphones

Swift Braille is a smartphone app that aims to help visually impaired and blind people communicate with others in writing. Worldwide...

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Palestine

Social Dice helps navigate rough waters of MENA hiring process

When you ask founder Saed Shela what the secret is to Social Dice’s success, he will say it is about making the hiring process smart...

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Palestine

Crowdfunding as a business model? Taita Leila in Palestine says yes

The idea of crowdfunding a fashion line is a familiar concept to Western fashion brands but few use the technique as the only sales method...

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Palestine

Gaza hackathon solves ‘lady problems’

With engaging spirit and thrill, 60 participants took part in the first Lady Problem Hackathon in Gaza last week. The event was for...

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Palestine

Mashvisor becomes first Palestinian startup accepted to Silicon Valley's 500 Startups

Real estate analytics platform Mashvisor has been chosen for the 19th round of acceleration at Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups, making...

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Palestine

Gaza game maker Baskalet eyes Saudi success

Facing tough economic conditions and unsatisfying day jobs in Gaza, Baskalet founders Mohammed Madhoun and Osayd Madi took the leap to do...

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Palestine

Hackathon seeks to boost tourism in Bethlehem

Nearly 100 people gathered for Palestine’s first tourism industry-led hackathon in Bethlehem on September 22. The three day event...

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Palestine

Borders may lock Gazan techies in, but they don’t lock support out

In a jam-packed hall at Box inc. in the heart of Silicon Valley, Gaza Sky Geeks hosted a startup event atypical of Bay Area...

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Palestine

Lady Problems Hackathon: Gaza

Lady Problems Hackathon Series are challenging developers (both men and women) to create solutions addressing issues female...

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Palestine

Summer startups: entrepreneurs nurture Gaza's next generation

With school summer vacations coming to an end, August witnessed a peak in the number of events targeting children in the Gaza...

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Palestine

Paypal: stop ignoring Palestinians now [Opinion]

Paypal, despite its own corporate values of inclusion and equality, is discriminating against Palestinians. A few months ago Paypal CEO...

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Palestine

5 steps to ecommerce success in Gaza

It took five years for a small team of professional coders in Gaza to launch their own ecommerce solution Loqta, after noticing how much...

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Palestine

Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom

Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware...

Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon

Palestine

Palestine's $12M Ibtikar fund launches, announces 8 investments

The Ibtikar Fund's management team, investors and startups. (Image via Christina Ghanim) Palestinian pride is providing the fuel for...

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Palestine

Tracking Palestine's tech talent at AngelHack

The AngelHack Gaza competition produced some interesting ideas. (Images via Gaza Sky Geeks) Coding is increasingly becoming a...

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Palestine

Work Factory builds Ramallah startup community

Work Factory hosted the West Bank's most recent Startup Grind. (Images via Work Factory) You can read Wamda's definitive guide to...

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Palestine

The freelancer life: tips from Gaza's successes

A freelancing workshop in Gaza, run by UAE-based outsourcing website Nabbesh. (Images via Nabbesh) Outsourcing is a new trend on the rise...

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Palestine

Palestinian tech bridges Arabic language online gaps

The development of the Arabic dialect search engine was a team effort. (Images via Curras). Every day millions of Arab speakers use social...

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Palestine

AngelHack Gaza 2016

AngelHack’s 9th Global Hackathon Series is coming to Gaza on May 6-7, 2016. The event will take place at the new Gaza Sky Geeks acc...

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Palestine

Exoskeleton gives the gift of movement

AZR’s exoskeleton prototype is being tested in the lab. (Images via AZR Team) Three Birzeit University students in the West Bank have b...

Handicapped Exoskeleton Birzeit University

Palestine

What I know about developing hardware and software in Palestine: Ayman Arandi

Ayman Arandi and his partners launched Iris Solutions with $15,000 of their own capital in the West Bank in 2012, with a plan to provide...

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Palestine

This Palestinian startup is using touch technology to help kids affected by autism

Colors, lights, music - the specialized environments of Iris Solutions' sensory rooms helps rehabilitate people who live with stress...

Medical Aid for Palestinians Stress Disorders Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Palestine

GITR Palestine announces champions

Three startups prevailed as champions of the Get in The Ring challenge, held for the first time in Ramallah on November...

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