Egypt Egyptian superhero startup wants to save comics Koshk Comics has a plan to take over the world, but unlike the nefarious comic villains who normally wield that line they’re aiming... Rachel Williamson • 18 August, 2016 Koshk Comics Egypt Lamis
Regional What's holding MENA's digital media market back? [Podcast] This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. Digital media is a growing market, but the amount of education still required for... Rachel Williamson • 08 August, 2016 Wamda Capital digital content Kharabeesh
Egypt Making video pay: who's profiting from the boom? Internet and smartphone growth, especially among youth, play a big role in the flourishing of the video industry. (Images... Eman Mostafa • 02 May, 2016 Shahid MBC BeIN
Kuwait How did Khaleejesque use content to support creatives? The head office. (Images via Khaleejesque) This article was originally published on Nuwait. The popularity of print... Ahmed Gabr • 04 April, 2016 Khaleejesque Nuwait digital content
Lebanon Content was king at ArabNet Beirut Full house. (Image via Hasna Frangieh) Content was king at ArabNet Beirut this year and it didn’t take Quantum... Reine Farhat • 03 March, 2016 Arabnet Beirut 2016 content Online video
Maghreb Tunisian stock exchange startup ilBoursa reaching new heights ilBoursa offers data to help investors make better financial decisions. Some entrepreneurs want to be famous, others want to make money,... Aline Mayard • 20 January, 2016 stock exchange Ilboursa finance
Maghreb Tunisia’s media monitoring service, WebRadar, is targeting the Arab world The Innova team is changing Arabic big data. Here they pause at Cogite coworking space's garden. (Images via WebRadar) Upon discovering... Emna Ghariani • 13 January, 2016 online alerts WebRadar tunisia
Jordan Inspire ME creativity conference aims to spark innovation in graphic design Graphic designers in Jordan are a forward-thinking group, according to Medhat Eid, an Adobe Community Professional based in... Samuel Wendel • 01 December, 2015 Graphic Design Inspire ME designers
Egypt Lessons from the Tahrir Academy shutdown Tahrir Academy first announced their closure earlier this summer. News that Egyptian online learning center Tahrir Academy was... Eman Mostafa • 17 November, 2015 nafham legislations close down
Kuwait How to leverage content at Mashup MENA SMEs and startups that wish to reach more customers should offer smart content and leverage web analytics. This was the message at the... Sara Tarik • 02 November, 2015
Regional Does your business really need an Arabic Top Level Domain? It’s now possible to buy domain names in non-roman letters including Chinese, Arabic and Russian, following a major expansion in the kinds o... Abdulghani Kataya • 29 September, 2015 TLD top level domains
Regional Technology is taking over the world (and the Middle East) This is a crosspost with Boostmena. Google was founded in 1998 and Facebook was founded in 2004. Fifteen years ago, businesses had no way... Amir Farha • 23 August, 2015 Smart Devices smartphones Technology
Regional Should my startup invest in content marketing? Still unsure about the value of content marketing? Read on. (Image via The Sales Lion) “We’re thinking about marketing for our startup but ... Wissam Dandan • 26 July, 2015 content marketing Wissam Dandan content
Regional 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
Egypt 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
Regional How animation studio Kharabeesh drew its own success Kharabeesh was one of the first companies to start making animated and video Arabic content, but their success didn’t come... Abdulghani Kataya • 29 April, 2015 Kharabeesh ksa YouTube
Jordan Hivos and Project Pen aim to disrupt electronic publishing in Jordan In response to the Arab publishing industry’s recent increased attention to the internet, Hivos has dedicated the Disrupt!... Tala El Issa • 12 March, 2015 zinc incubator ZINC ebooks
Regional How ArabiaWeather battles the forces of nature Residents of the Middle East don't need me to tell them that this year so far has been a doozy in terms of weather. First, we had... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 26 February, 2015 yohan windy huda
Egypt Egyptian news startup aims to change the media landscape Students from Deshna, Egypt, pull sugarcane from tractors on Egypt’s Aswan Agriculture Road, which usually puts students’ lives in danger (... Eman Mostafa • 08 March, 2015
Lebanon Rollin'pen finds its opportunity in optimizing Arabic content for the web While Beirut has countless translators, one in particular is targeting businesses with an eye on corporate communication. “The idea i... Abdulghani Kataya • 01 March, 2015 RollinPen lebanon Translation
Jordan ArabiaWeather.com closes $2M investment round led by Badia Impact Fund ArabiaWeather.com has announced a new round of investment, reported by some outlets to be $2 million, led by new investor Badia Impact... Wamda • 12 December, 2014 silicon badia investement ArabiaWeather
Maghreb Entrepreneurs learn a lesson in storytelling at #YMEstartup Tunis Walking through the doors of Tunisia’s Elgazala Technopark on Monday October 13th, there was one thing I couldn’t help but not... Courtney Joline • 21 October, 2014 events your middle east #YMEStartup
Regional Sultan al-Qassemi on MIT Media Lab: imagination realized When I was first invited to join the MIT Media Lab as a Director’s Fellow I took it at face value and assumed it was somehow connected to t... Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi • 07 October, 2014 sultan al-qassemi MIT Media Lab Media
U.A.E 7awi's lessons from launching 5 Arabic sites in 2 years The virtual world suffers a severe shortage of Arabic content; sites in Arabic account for only 3% of all online content. In recent years,... Pamela Kesrouani • 01 October, 2014