12 apps, six winners, and one big Egyptian competition

Competitions can sometimes stint on the cash, but not the one held on Wednesday in the lush environs of the downtown American...

Rachel Williamson • 28 July, 2016

Udacity Mobile App Launchpad Egypt

Jordanian university breathes life into eco-friendly graduation projects

The two most common options for people after they graduate from university are to either join the general workforce or pursue an academic...

Tala El Issa • 26 July, 2016

eco friendly green tech Jordan

A first year anniversary and a trip to Silicon Valley

“We’re witnessing a change of mindset, in the banks, the investors, the supporters. You can see the effect, and this has all...

Lucy Knight • 13 July, 2016

Speed@BDD silicon valley

It’s all about the team, AUB Entrepreneurship Week

Startups are all about the team, this was the simple advice put forward to attendees of AUB’s Entrepreneurship Week, June 27 to July...

Maya Mansour • 12 July, 2016

AUB Entrepreneurship Week CRinn AEISEC

Startups and VCs: it doesn't have to be complicated

The relationship between an investor and an investee is sometimes delicate. One is fronting up with cash and faith that it’ll go...

Maya Rahal • 05 July, 2016

due diligence startups VCs

The importance of workshops for UX design

On the fourth floor of an Istanbul hotel young men and women are huddled over work tables, overlooking large poster boards, markers,...

Lorena Rios • 08 June, 2016

Userspots design workshops User Experience

Tech solutions for refugees with Techfugees

As the migrant crisis has spread across Europe consciences have been awoken. What if technology could improve the life of migrants and...

Aline Mayard • 17 March, 2016

Urban Refugees S'team Management Refugeeks

Speed@BDD sends two startups off to Silicon Valley

Two of Speed@BDD’s first six startups are off to Silicon Valley. The accelerator’s CEO Sami Abou Saab said Rational Pixels...

Lucy Knight • 14 January, 2016

NAR Rational Pixels Speed@BDD

Mentorship and community building show big potential for entrepreneurs at Mix N’ Mentor Nuwait

If there’s just one word to describe Mix N’ Mentor - Nuwait Edition, it would be “hunger.” Hunger for mentorship,...

Reine Farhat • 25 October, 2015

Nuwait Kuwait National Fund kuwait

Offline P2P messenger hacks Apple technology to win Startup Weekend Cairo

Startup Weekend novices Voiceless have won the latest competition in Cairo with a potentially game-changing app, based on peer-to-peer...

Rachel Williamson • 25 September, 2014

p2p Egypt Startup Weekend

Beirut's new Co-Working +961 space hosts first startup pitch event

Last week, at the newly launched Co-working +961 space in Beirut, entrepreneurs, investors, and startup enthusiasts gathered to...

Reine Farhat • 08 July, 2013

Pitching MIT Coworking Spaces

New initiative launches in Cairo and Beirut to support Arabic content online

  There’s a reason why initiatives like Taghreedat and Arabic Web Days are focusing on boosting Arabic content on the...

Reine Farhat • 16 May, 2013

Translation Arabic Content

Innovating Refuge: a hackathon to redefine the refugee experience

  If you could redesign today's response to a humanitarian crisis, what would it look like? Today, a growing ecosystem of...

Wamda • 31 May, 2016

tech entrepreneurs Refugee Innovative Response

Middle East SME Forum 2011

The Middle East SME Forum is happening on the 3rd and 4th of October at the Park Rotana in Abu Dhabi. Starting up a business, go...

Wamda • 25 September, 2011