Can this Dubai startup improve Arabic content design?

ShortPoint, a Dubai-based web and content-design startup that launched earlier this year, hopes to save content creators hours of coding by...

Pamela Kesrouani • 18 June, 2015

Content Design CMS ShortPoint

Searching for success in MENA's postal address sector

"Yes, I will sign for that package." (Images via Aramex) “So you take the main street, you turn at the pharmacy after the streetlight, t...

Aline Mayard • 13 May, 2015

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Tiny package, quick power: Palestinian startup crowdfunding phone battery solution

A nifty charger that won't weigh you down. (Images via BOLD Gadget) As technology still lags behind the growing demand for longer...

Rachel Williamson • 26 May, 2015

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MENA, birthplace for a digital health revolution?

Imagine waking up in the morning and checking your watch to see how many hours of deep, restful sleep you obtained, your caloric intake...

Natasha D'Souza • 24 May, 2015

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Egypt’s Banana Kingdom to ripen in California

Egyptian social startup Banana Kingdom could be leaving its sleepy Nile-side home for a faster pace of life in Silicon Valley, after...

Eman Mostafa • 08 June, 2015

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When being a game developer just isn’t enough

Kareem Abdullatif andHani El-Akel have a passion for gaming and in 2010 the Egyptian entrepreneurs decided to take a risk and found their...

Safar Ayad • 22 June, 2015

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How nanotechnology can push Egypt through its energy crisis

Nanotechnology has been used in the oil and gas sector for decades, but in the last 15 years companies have been investing bigger sums...

Rachel Williamson • 21 May, 2015

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Morocco's online health service DabaDoc expands its reach

When Zineb Yacoubi returned to Morocco after eight years abroad, she was struck by how difficult it was to book a medical appointment....

Aline Mayard • 20 May, 2015

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Productivity app wins AngelHack Dubai 2015

Bring your laptops, hardware, creativity, perseverance and create. (Images via AngelHack Dubai 2015) More than 70 hackers, coders and...

Antoine Abou-Diwan • 17 May, 2015

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Lebanese game developers Wixel Studios targets cancer with new project

  Still from the Aurora game. (Image via Wixel Studios) Despite a growing tech-healthcare sector - which by now has hundreds of...

Maysaa Ajjan • 12 May, 2015

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Diagnose your market: insights into MENA’s digital health revolution

The health revolution. (Image via CB Insights) As the m-health industry of the Middle East continues to grow, Dubai hosted its first...

Roland Daher • 11 May, 2015

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Disrupt!Games! aims to solve problems creatively

Getting down to business. (Images via Cogite) Tunisia’s young gaming community came together from May 1st through 3rd at the Cogite c...

Christine Petré • 07 May, 2015

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Egyptian coworking space aims to teach Arabic-speaking developers how to protect their online data

A coworking space for Egypt’s online security professionals is set to launch in August, and is aiming to make the Arabic-speaking d...

Eman Mostafa • 19 May, 2015

DIY app wins top prize at first ever RedTroops JO Hackathon

The developers of Edy, an iOS app that blends the creative photo sharing elements of Instagram with the DIY work of online marketplaces...

Melanie Butcher • 27 April, 2015

One guest at a time: how a newly launched hotel aims to boost Tunis’ medina

Tucked away in one of the small alleys of Tunisian capital Tunis’ old town, the medina, you find the seven-room boutique hotel Dar B...

Christine Petré • 22 April, 2015

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Elusive success: a closer look at MENA's potentially lucrative travel sector

The potential of MENA’s travel and tourism sector is staggering. Some 352 million air travelers in the Arab world generated more than $480 ...

Antoine Abou-Diwan • 19 April, 2015

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Sun shines on Egypt's solar startups

Sarah Mousa eyed the small boys, vigorously hacking at each other with sticks in the narrow backstreet of Cairo’s Al Darb Al Ahmar...

Rachel Williamson • 30 April, 2015

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Facebook adds free peer-to-peer payments in Messenger

This article is a crosspost with the Payfort blog. If you’re like most people, you know settling debts or splitting bills between f...

Faisal Al Khalidi • 03 May, 2015

Inside Jumia Maroc, a well-oiled machine

It may be an ordinary building in the residential neighborhood of Socrate in Casablanca, but the discrete design doesn’t lie, we’re sta...

Aline Mayard • 20 April, 2015

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How entrepreneurs are shedding light on Bahrain's underground music scene

Aalaat performed at Malja Bahrain last month. (Image via Malja's Facebook page.) Tiny Bahrain has been making a lot of noise lately. The...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 14 April, 2015

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What is the Saudi game industry lacking? Two developers respond

The bar for producing games in the Arab region is at its highest point yet, as more developers enter the market. But a cool idea is not...

Reine Farhat • 12 April, 2015

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Under the hood of the HyperSport: the $3.4M Arab star of Furious 7

All images via W Motors' website. “This time it ain’t just about being fast,” growls Vin Diesel in the newly released, box office record b...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 19 April, 2015

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MEVP announces first round of $30M MEVF II fund

Yesterday, Middle East Venture Partners announced the first round of investments as part of its $30 million Middle East Venture Fund II....

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 20 April, 2015

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This eshop plans to boost the makers scene in Morocco

  Being a maker, someone who creates electronic and robotic hardware, is not easy in Morocco. Buying electronic components is...

Aline Mayard • 15 April, 2015

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