Wamda

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TiE Dubai offers $100,000 to winning startup

TiE Dubai, a chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), announced the launch of a regional Women 2020 pitch competition as part of its...

Women entrepreneurship competition

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How can we encourage more women to pursue entrepreneurship?

Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, Sana Afouaiz, founder of Womenpreneur, an organisation established to support women entrepreneurs, toured...

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The problem of women entrepreneurs

The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region has made strides towards maturity and development of its startup ecosystem, however, gender...

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Gitex: A show dominated by Saudi Arabia and the women of the UAE

Some 100,000 people attend Gitex every year in what is the region’s biggest technology exhibition. Bringing together government,...

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What we learned at WEF Mena 2019

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) concludes today, drawing more than 1000 government, business and...

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Saudi Arabia

Coding and conservatism: Saudi women learn online

Saudi Arabia’s conservative expectations of women have been a boon for the online education sector in the country. While recent...

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Saudi Arabia

This is how 3 Saudi female students launched a mobile repair company

Fixing electronic devices such as phones and laptops is a field dominated by men, especially in the Arab world. However, a group of young...

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Egypt

Egyptian food delivery platform secures $200K investment from 500 Startups

Cairo-based homemade food delivery startup Mumm received a $200,000 investment from 500 Startups. The startup empowers Egyptian women to...

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Pakistan

She Loves Tech Startup Competition goes to Pakistan

CIRCLE brings unique opportunity for one Pakistani startup to attend a bootcamp in China through ‘She Loves Tech Global Startup...

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Lebanon

Arab women designers: not just fashion

The recent boom in Muslim modest fashion has brought Arab women designers onto the spotlight. The fashion field, however, is only the...

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Morocco

Lamia Bazir is rethinking social entrepreneurship in Morocco

Lamia Bazir could have made a career outside Morocco, advocating for women’s empowerment and gender equality all over the world....

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Global

Startup Watch: VCs and renewables are never, ever, ever getting back together

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Saudi Arabia

The Saudi women taking on the kingdom’s education sector

As Saudi Arabia wants to diversify its economy away from oil, education is essential for the upbringing of a generation endowed with the...

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Global

Startup Watch: the real robot danger

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Saudi Arabia

Why education in Saudi Arabia needs a boost [WamdaTV]

Mashail Balkouka, an electrical and computer engineering student at Effat University in Saudi Arabia, talks about the importance of making...

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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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Lebanon

Despite lack of funding, social entrepreneurship endures [Wamda TV]

“Young people today are not aware of society’s real problems.” This is what motivated Mona Itani, a lecturer at the...

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U.A.E

WiSTEM 2016

Women are increasingly becoming the global driving force for economic growth and innovation, and WiSTEM is celebrating the women...

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When MENA investors don’t bank on women

For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they...

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Kuwait

Meet the women ‘Instapreneurs’ of Kuwait

Her Highness Hind Al-Sabeeh during her opening speech. (Images via Reine Farhat) This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. It would...

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MENA startups are taking on women’s health

Women are vastly underserved by healthcare systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Limited access to high-quality and...

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Apply to the Vital Voices GROW Fellowship

This year's Vital Voices GROW Fellowship has strated receiving applications. The VV GROW Fellowship is a highly competitive one-year...

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Megatrends in MENA: the rise of entrepreneurship [Infographic]

Entrepreneurship has finally attained global megatrend status, according to EY, but MENA's founders knew that long...

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The female VCs of MENA

Noor Sweid and Hala Fadel. (Image via Leap Ventures) There are two common complaints in the Middle East startup sector: a lack of funding,...

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