9 Ways to Increase your Chances at Getting a Job As the demands of the job market become more and more specialized, it's becoming harder to get a job. Unemployment on the whole in the... Maya Rahal • 03 February, 2013 Advice Programme Job Recruitment
Mobile App Nabd Offers Personalized News in Arabic With the abundance of news websites and a constant stream of article and video shares coming various social networks, online users can... Maya Rahal • 03 February, 2013 Arabic Content Digital Advertising Digital Media
Startup Weekend Byblos Startup Weekend makes its way to Byblos, Lebanon on March 1-3, 2013. SW Byblos will take place at the American University of Technology Ca... Wamda • 01 February, 2013 Conferences Startup Weekend
Weekly Wrap-Up: January 27-31 We focused this week on the importance of building a founding team in leading your startup to success. Are you looking for the right... Wamda • 01 February, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
Arab Youth and Entrepreneurship: Holistic Approaches to Nurturing Local Ecosystems On February 16-18, 2013, the Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI) and Silatech is hosting a conference on “Arab Youth & E... Wamda • 31 January, 2013 Conferences Ecosystem
Look for Co-Entrepreneurs that Will Complement Your Skillset [Pic of the Week] "Without talented employees I’ll never make it." I hear this sentiment expressed often by new entrepreneurs struggling to build their s... Maya Rahal • 31 January, 2013 Advice CoE Cards Pic of the Week
Exclusive Sneak Peek at the Middle East’s Newest Crowdfunding Platform: Zoomaal For entrepreneurs in the Middle East seeking investment, a new platform is launching in February to offer crowdfunding for creative... Nina Curley • 31 January, 2013 Crowdfunding Investment
10 Tips of the Month from Entrepreneurs on Wamda As they revealed their successes, challenges, and failures, the entrepreneurs we chatted with on Wamda this month had great advice for... Glen Dalakian II • 31 January, 2013 Advice Tips Top Lists
Palestinian Startup Magic Lens Provides Multimedia Solutions in Gaza [Wamda TV] Three young Palestinian entrepreneurs recently launched Magic Lens, a design startup offering multimedia services for clients in Gaza. The s... Mariam Hamed • 31 January, 2013 Animation Arabic Content Digital Media
Iraq Startup Weekend Sulaimani, Iraq For the first time ever, Startup Weekend makes its way to Iraq on January 31-February 2, 2013. SW Sulaimani will take place at... Wamda • 31 January, 2013 Startup Weekend
Mideast Tunes, the Indie MySpace of the Middle East, Announces Partnership with Shazam In 2010, when MySpace-style music platforms were just launching in the Middle East, opinionated blogger Ahmad Al-Shagra took a stand,... Nina Curley • 30 January, 2013 Digital Marketing Mobile Music
How the Middle East Can Reclaim its Creative Work Culture “8-5 shifts”, “lunch breaks”, “weekends”, and “vacations” are part of the not-so-wonderful jargon we have inherited from the Industrial Revo... Oubai Elkerdi • 30 January, 2013 Advice Ecosystem Education
A Look at Investment and Workforce Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa [Case Study] This is the eighth and last installment of a series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. This case study as... Wamda • 30 January, 2013 Aureos Aureos Case Studies Financial management
Saudi Woman Entrepreneur Designs Program to Overcome Stage Fright [Wamda TV] Glassophobia (commonly known as public speech anxiety) is a problem that most of us (in fact, over 74% of us) have faced at some point in... Ahmed Al Majid • 30 January, 2013 Women
Tutorial Platform Facebook Studio Edge Launches in Dubai After unveiling the platform last spring, Facebook today announced the Dubai launch of Facebook Studio Edge, a tutorial platform designed... Glen Dalakian II • 29 January, 2013 Facebook Marketing Social Media
Entrepreneurs of the Week: Marc Dfouni and Nemr Badin from Eastline Marketing [Wamda TV] More than 15 years after starting up Eastline Marketing, a digital media agency based in Beirut, today's Entrepreneurs of the Week,... Maya Rahal • 29 January, 2013 Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Marketing