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TechWadi and MIT Arab Startup Competition forum [PROMOCODE INCLUDED]

TechWadi and MIT Arab Startup Competition are organizing a weeklong forum ending on June 14th at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center,...

techwadi MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition MIT

Accounting and taxation workshop at the Ministry of Finance Lebanon

In an attempt to support and help young Lebanese tech-entrepreneurs handling their finances, the general director of the Lebanese Ministry...

taxation accounting Workshops

Startup Weekend Gaza 4

Startup Weekend Gaza 4 is the fourth and largest SW ever to be held in Gaza. Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, d...

Dubai Silicon Oasis Techforum

Dubai Silicon Oasis is organizing its 15th session of Silicon Oasis Techforum on Tuesday May 13th from 7 to 9 pm at the ground floor of the...

Dubai Silicon Oasis Techforum

AstroLabs partners with Blackbox to send a Middle Eastern startup to Silicon Valley

AstroLabs, the startup workshop series, is now joining ranks with the organizations working to connect startups in the Middle East with...

tim draper blackbox silicon valley

Palestinian entrepreneur looks to use Xbox Kinect for classroom education

[Arabic] Inspired by the Xbox Kinect, a motion sensor by Microsoft developed for the Xbox 360 and redesigned for the upcoming Xbox 1,...

palestine Gamification

This Algerian woman needs your vote to win a Harvard competition today

Algerian college student Meriem Chehih wasn’t taught how to code in high school. “Here in Algeria, we don’t study computers in high ...

Healthcare Health Mobile

Gaza Sky Geeks bootcamp prepares entrepreneurs to pitch to investors [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Last week, MercyCorps Gaza and Oasis500 partnered to organize their first week long bootcamp in Gaza, in collaboration with Gaza ...

Accelerators Investment Oasis500

Startup news ticker: Taghreedat partners with new proofreading startup and LinkedIn helps students

Tuesday, August 21st. Ideavelopers and Vodafone invest EGP 6 million in Swipe'n'tap [Tweet] On August 4th, Ideavelopers and Vodafone Egypt...

news

New social game launches in Egypt, inspired by protests in Tahrir Square [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] In the midst of Egypt's current tumult, a new social game on Facebook was recently launched to let players experience the events ...

Egypt Gaming

Gazan entrepreneur builds online platform to unite Palestine's professionals [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] One new startup in Gaza is looking to unite all of Palestine’s professionals in one accessible online network. Entrepreneur I...

Incubator Networking Accelerators

How IPAL in Gaza is trying to improve childhood education through gaming [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] In order to help fill the education gap in some parts of the Arab world, three young entrepreneurs from Gaza, Mohammed Youssef,...

Education Gaming

What are the biggest challenges faced by Bahraini entrepreneurs? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

During Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor event in Manama, we asked attendees to share their biggest challenges to building their startup. Equity fun...

Bahrain Mix n Mentor Ecosystem

Will this online tourism guide flourish in Gaza? [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Launched by Palestinian entrepreneur Mohannad Al Nounou in Gaza in early 2012, online tourism and activity guide Fos7a offers an ...

Tourism

PayPal announces launch in Egypt

Today, global payment gateway PayPal is announcing its launch in Egypt, where it has enabled services for consumers. Enabling consumer...

PayPal Payment Gateways

Fabraca in Palestine Manufactures Products with Locally Developed 3D Printer [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Palestinian engineer Ahmed Baraee recently founded Fabraca, a startup that builds physical objects out of 3D designs. After...

3D rendering

Palestinian Startup Shakhabeet Builds Animated Cartoons for Children [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Palestinian entrepreneur Salah Ahmed discusses his startup Shakhabeet, which produces multimedia content, including advertising ...

Video Advertising Animation

10 Stats You Should Know About E-Commerce in the Middle East

This quick video reveals 10 key statistics about e-commerce in the Arab world, including the size of the online population, how much is...

PayPal Payment Gateways E-commerce

Training Businesses in Social Media Marketing, SoshTeck in Oman [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Saba Al Busaidi of social media training company SoshTeck in Oman discusses how she re...

Social Networks Social Media

Building a Self-Funded Tech Solutions Company from Jordan [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] We chatted with Ashraf Alqudah, co-founder of TjDeeD Technology, at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which provides software p...

Investment E-commerce

Lebanese Startup Kactus Reinvents the Mobile To-Do List [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, we chatted with Nadi Chemali, the co-Founder of Kactus, an iPhone app in Lebanon that...

Scaling Accelerators Angel Investment

Beirut Creative Cluster Launch Event

Berytech, with the support of the European Union, is hosting the official launch event for the Beirut Creative Cluster (BCC) on April 2,...

Coworking Spaces

Launching a New Flash Sales Website in Palestine [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] In Gaza, two entrepreneurs, Ahmed Alyan and Moaz Hamid, decided to launch a flash deals website called Safaka, planned to launch...

Daily Deals

Creating a Digital Arabic Comics Market from Egypt [Wamda TV]

During the Flat6Labs Cycle 3 Demo Day, Mahmoud Ghoz, founder and CEO of Rawy, discusses his startup, a digital publishing marketplace and se...

Egypt Media Accelerators

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