Fabraca in Palestine Manufactures Products with Locally Developed 3D Printer [Wamda TV] [Arabic] Palestinian engineer Ahmed Baraee recently founded Fabraca, a startup that builds physical objects out of 3D designs. After... Mariam Hamed • 21 April, 2013 3D rendering
How Entrepreneurs Are Innovating Their Way Out of Traffic Sometimes the most innovative ideas come from entrepreneurs who are just fed up. Their ability to make people’s lives just a l... Ahmed Gabr • 21 April, 2013 Crowdsourcing Egypt Transportation
The First Startup Weekend Ramallah Awards a Job Application Screening Platform Note: this piece is adapted from the Arabic original.Startup Weekend Ramallah almost didn't happen. The organizers- Jaafar Houjair, ... jaafar abusair • 21 April, 2013 SWRamallah Startup Weekend
6 Reasons to Use Video Advertising There's no doubt that video is the space to watch in online content; by 2014, it may account for 90% of content consumed on the internet,... Maya Rahal • 21 April, 2013 Video Advertising Advertising Video On Demand
Weekly Wrap-Up: April 14-18 How do you make sure you stay at the top of your game? Listening to your clients, benchmarking your features against work that inspires... Wamda • 18 April, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
STC Announces First Investment in Saudi-Based Education Platform Acadox STC Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi Telecom Company (STC), has announced investment in Acadox, a Saudi Arabia-based... Nina Curley • 18 April, 2013 STC Ventures E-Learning Investment
Mix N' Mentor Riyadh The next stop on Wamda's 2013 Mix N' Mentor Roadshow, Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh will take place on May 30, 2013. MnM Riyadh, co-organized co-... Wamda • 18 April, 2013 Mix n Mentor Mentorship
New Incubation Project Supports Non-Profits in Saudi Arabia I recently wrote about major challenges that startups are facing in Saudi Arabia, but as support programs at KAUST and... Ahmed Gabr • 18 April, 2013 Social Change Social Entrepreneurship
Social Business Gets a Boost in Tunisia with Launch of Muhammad Yunus's New Holistic Movement March 13th was a day to remember in Tunisia this year. That day, Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi Noble Prize winner and one of the... Wiem Melki • 18 April, 2013 Job Creation Social Change Social Entrepreneurship
How Reviews Convince Customers to Buy E-commerce Products [Infographic] With Arab users often not trusting online payment, e-commerce platforms in some markets in the Middle East have struggling to move away... Maya Rahal • 17 April, 2013 Reviews E-commerce
Could Digital Documentation Become a Profitable Business in Egypt? Over the past two years since Egypt ousted Mubarak, several initiatives in Egypt have attempted to document the revolution's history on... Hanan Solayman • 17 April, 2013 Egypt
Meet the Coffeehouse Inspiring Youth in Eastern Saudi Arabia Last year, Wamda contributor Oubei Elkerdi asked whether coffeehouses could boost creativity in the Arab World. He argued that... Ahmed Al Majid • 17 April, 2013 Coffeehouses Creativity Innovation
Mix N' Mentor Amman The next stop on Wamda's 2013 Mix N' Mentor Roadshow, Mix N’ Mentor Amman will take place on May 24, 2013. MnM Amman, co-organized for the s... Wamda • 17 April, 2013 Mix n Mentor Mentorship
Why Entrepreneurs Ignore Networking Events, and How to Spark Their Interest At eClub’s Weekly Entrepreneurs Brunch last week, the discussion focused on networking, asking entrepreneurs what they get out of n... Abdallah Absi • 17 April, 2013 Networking Advice
Lebanon's Presella Targets the Globe with an E-ticketing and Event Crowdfunding Platform Watching people entering the We Were Evergreen concert in Beirut a few weeks ago was certainly a show. People were excited to show their... Aline Mayard • 16 April, 2013 Crowdfunding E-commerce
Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship Cross-posted and adapted from the original version published on the Harvard Business Review on April 10, 2013. I met Slovenian... Daniel Isenberg • 16 April, 2013 Public-Private Partnerships Government Legal