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Meet the business network that's empowering women in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

CellA is a network for professional Saudi women. Founded in Riyadh, it’s quickly spreading to the rest of the kingdom’s commercial and edu...

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Saudi Arabia

Hadafi competition offers Saudi women the chance to fund business ideas

Last week, Dubai-based social enterprise Potential launched Hadafi, a women’s entrepreneurship program designed to empower women in Saudi A...

Women Hadafi Saudi Arabia

One woman's quest to get kids reading in the Arab world

Very few initiatives originating in the Arab world achieve international recognition: Kitaby Kitabak (my book, your book in English), a...

libraries library reading

Egyptian entrepreneur Amira Azzouz fights back against content theft

Last week, Amira Azzouz, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Fustany.com, the fashion and lifestyle site for Arab women, was doing some...

theft content scraping

6 tips for successfully crowdfunding your creative project

Got an idea so crazy it just might work? You’re in luck: Zoomaal, the Arab world’s only crowdfunding site, is launching its Cre...

How Lebanese recipe portal Shahiya is empowering women in Saudi Arabia and abroad

Since we last checked in, Shahiya, the Beirut-based community recipe board, has made some serious strides. The site has grown to over...

expat cooking Saudi Arabia

India's largest IT company outsources to women in Saudi Arabia

Forget outsourcing to India. India’s largest IT company is now planning to outsource to Saudi Arabia, debuting its first “all-female ser...

Employment Saudi Arabia Government

Startup in Palestine launches crowdfunding campaign for rooftop farming in refugee camps

During one of her stints conducting field research in the Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Lebanon in support of her...

Women Powering Work Competition

Women Powering Work: Innovations for Economic Equality in the MENA Region will grant three entrepreneurs with a US $25,000 prize in ...

Can these two students change Algeria by organizing TEDx events?

Who has not been moved, inspired or empowered by a TED video? Who has not wanted to take control of his or her life and change something...

Youth TEDx

U.A.E

What’s next for Glowork after its $16 million acquisition by SAS Holding

Glowork, the Saudi platform designed to connect women to jobs, has been acquired by SAS Holding, which invested 60 million SAR (US $16...

Acquisitions Job Recruitment Women

The challenges of bootstrapping a mobile app as a single female founder in Lebanon

This piece is part of a new series on the challenges of young entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their startups. If you know someone who's...

Incubator Competitions Mobile

Stars of Science launches fifth season with more women: 'innovation knows no gender'

Stars of Science, the hit pan-Arab science and technology reality-TV competition, returns this Friday, Sept 13 on MBC 4 (8pm KSA), for its...

Science Stars of Science Competitions

Women entrepreneurs are more innovative than men in the Arab world

Women’s entrepreneurship is all the rage lately. Mentions of women in the global media have risen from a catatonic 200 times a year to 1...

Women

Mobile app MummyChitChats helps mothers in Egypt, UAE, and Saudi

“It all started as a BBM group with friends who became moms around the same time and were eager for help and advice,” says young Egyptian e...

Social Networks Women

Meet the Women Entrepreneurs in Beirut

The “Meet the Women Entrepreneurs” event will take place on September 5th, 2013 in Beirut to offer a meeting hub for women entrepreneurs to...

Women

How a young women's rights activist launched Egypt's 'Best Hostel'

In an old building in downtown Cairo, Dina’s Hostel was founded over three years ago by Egyptian entrepreneur Dina Abou El Soud, b...

hospitality Egypt

Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf get a boost from new support programs

It's well known that many women entrepreneurs in the Gulf face obstacles trying to join the workforce. At our Wamda for Women roundtables...

Training Financial management Women

How Supermama, Shahiya and Mumzworld are supporting moms this Ramadan

Ramadan can be overwhelming for moms, as they balance families with work and social obligations. To support moms, and women in general,...

Ramadan Health E-commerce

BiD Women in Business Challenge Award Ceremony in Amsterdam

On September 12, the five finalists of the Women in Business Challenge flying from emerging markets will stand before a community of...

Competitions Women

What it's like to be a woman entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia

[The Wamda media team with Diana Rayyan of Trochet at our W4Women Riyadh roundtable] What most of the world knows about Saudi Arabia is...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Women in Jordan resolve to be changemakers: Conclusions from our W4Women roundtables

“I didn’t negotiate well because I was too shy,” one woman admitted at our Wamda for Women roundtables in Amman. After finding that women...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

Tech companies support women entrepreneurs in the Arab world

With 74% of women confident that they can achieve a balanced professional and personal life and reach the upper echelons of business...

Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Why the Arab world needs more women in the workforce

When female participation in the workforce in the Arab world still ranges between 17% and 27% of the female population, something has to...

W4Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Women

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