Health and tech connect: TiE looks at opportunities for the region's digihealth sector

The Indus Entrepreneur's Dubai (TiE) chapter is hosting a discussion on various aspect of the digital health revolution and its impact on...

Wamda • 03 May, 2015

Martin Kelly Jack Young TiE

The Growing Leaders Foundation hosting entrepreneurial sessions for youths

The Growing Leaders Foundation will start Building Youth Owned Business (BYOB) classes for the first time in the UAE. The classes are...

Wamda • 12 May, 2015

Building Youth Owned Business Growing Leaders Foundation Dubai

AngelHack hackathon in Dubai

The AngelHack hackathon is a platform where participants compete to build, test, and launch their ideas to the world during the two-day...

Wamda • 27 April, 2015

HACKcelerator SquareCircle Tech Microsoft Gulf

Digital Health Live 2015 in Dubai World Trade Centre

The Digital Health Live conference will introduce to the public the recent breakthroughs and the future of healthcare. New ideas and...

Wamda • 27 April, 2015

Dubai World Trade Centre Digital Health Live Acumen+Dubai

Sirdab Lab hosts talk with Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, creator of THE 99

  Sirdab Lab is hosting entrepreneur Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa as part of its monthly Startup Grind on April 22, 2015, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. ...

Wamda • 13 April, 2015

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How young Arabs are fueling the MENA media market [Report]

Global consulting firm Strategy& has published a report on the potential of MENA’s youth and how they have shifted the local media i...

Raed Khalil • 15 April, 2015

Noura al Kaabi Jayant Bhargava young arabs

Eureeca webinar on future financial crisis

Eureeca is organizing a webinar on strategies to anticipate a possible future economic and financial crisis similar to the 2008 financial...

Wamda • 15 April, 2015

Sam Quawasmi eureeca

Coding for kids classes from the Coding Circle in Dubai

Tech education company The Coding Circle has opened registrations for a new beginners’ course and for the first module of an intermediate c...

Wamda • 22 October, 2015

Coding for Kids Coding Circle

Accelerator insights from the UK Lebanon Tech Hub

The UK Lebanon Tech Hub, which started earlier this year, announced the start of its International Accelerator activities in...

Maya Rahal • 28 September, 2015

Tech Accelerator UK Lebanon Tech Hub accelerator

Mauritania enters the startup game

Mauritania's flag flies high. (Image via Xinhuanet.com) Mauritania's tech and startup scene started late but is growing, due to the hard...

Aline Mayard • 08 December, 2015

Startup Mauritania

Watch the Livestream of Flat6Labs' 4th Demo Day

Curious about the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to the Livestream from their Demo Day,...

Wamda • 14 January, 2013

Accelerators Angel Investment Flat6Labs

Watch the Livestream of Flat6Labs Spring Demo Day 2013

Check back at 6pm! Want to see the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to this Livestream of...

Wamda • 12 May, 2013

Egypt

Stars of Science returns for Season 6 to showcase young Arab innovators

During a press conference organized at Qatar’s National Convention Center (QNCC) in Doha, which Wamda attended earlier today over Google H...

Maya Rahal • 09 September, 2014

regional competition Stars of Science

Get in the Ring contest targets Moroccan startups scaling internationally

There’s no shortage of startup events in Morocco, but they generally target idea-stage projects, helping companies create business plans r...

Aline Mayard • 31 July, 2014

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What do people tweet about during Ramadan?

As we mentioned in a feature about The Online Project (TOP) report released last year, an increase in internet usge appears in engagement w...

Wamda • 03 July, 2014

the online project TOP Report

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,...

Wamda • 02 June, 2014

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...

Wamda • 05 June, 2014

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...

Wamda • 10 June, 2014

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...

Wamda • 04 May, 2014

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...

Wamda • 26 November, 2013

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,...

Mariam Hamed • 14 October, 2013

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 ...

Nina Curley • 19 September, 2013

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 ...

Mariam Hamed • 09 September, 2013

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...

Wamda • 27 August, 2013

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