Sign Up to Spend Three Days with Geeks on a Plane in Jordan As you've seen, Silicon Valley investors Geeks on a Plane are coming to our Mix 'n' Mentor event in Amman. After the event, they're also... Nina Curley • 06 November, 2012 Investment Mentorship
Watch Souq and MarkaVIP Face Off on Wamda This Thursday! Live Google Hangout Wamda TV is launching a new video series called "Face Off!", hosting two of the biggest names in e-commerce, Souq.com and MarkaVIP, for our... Nina Curley • 06 November, 2012 E-commerce Face Off
Amman Meets Silicon Valley's Geeks on a Plane This Saturday, Nov 10th, Amman Tech Tuesdays is hosting an event at the Zara Expo Auditorium behind the Hyatt Amman... Wamda • 06 November, 2012 Investment Mentorship Mix n Mentor
Entrepreneur of the Week: Hind And Nadia Wassef of Diwan Bookstore [Wamda TV] The Entrepreneurs of the Week today are Nadia and Hind Wassef, co-founders of Diwan Bookstore in Egypt, and Endeavor Egypt... Maya Rahal • 06 November, 2012 Egypt Endeavor Entrepreneur of the Week
Wild Peeta Goes Lean, Launching Crowdfunded Franchises and a New TV Show Dubai is not known for being lean. “Because the Gulf is such a new region, everything is geared towards big imported brands,” says Mohamed P... Nina Curley • 06 November, 2012 Scaling Entertainment Food & Beverage
Cashless in Kenya: A Mobile Money Experiment Using M-PESA Walking home from the office late one night, Amrit Pal, an Indian student working with a Nairobi-based mobile money startup for the summer,... Jonathan Kalan • 06 November, 2012 Mobile Mobile Apps Payment Gateways
The Most Active VCs in the Arab World in 2012 This week we highlight the Arab world’s most active venture capital funds. These VC’s are targeting startups at different stages in their de... Glen Dalakian II • 06 November, 2012 Ecosystem Investment Top Lists
How LinkedIn Is Growing In The Middle East [Infographic] A couple months after LinkedIn entered the Middle East market and opened an office in Dubai, it has released numbers demonstrating its ... Maya Rahal • 05 November, 2012 Social Media
10 Education Technology Resources for the Arab World In my previous article, I talked about the accumulating research on the importance on early childhood education, and the rising importance... Nafez Dakkak • 05 November, 2012 Education
Is the Philanthropy Model Broken? Changemakers Discuss Social Entrepreneurship in Dubai In Dubai, a city that is sometimes referred to as ‘soul-less’, over 150 social changemakers from across the Gulf gathered at the Capital Clu... Leena AlOlaimy • 05 November, 2012 Social Change Social Entrepreneurship
Fatooosh Offers Mobile and SmartTV Video Streaming Tailored for the Arab World Amidst a rise in available Arabic content online, a new cross-platform SmartTV app has launched to offer seamless video viewing and... Glen Dalakian II • 05 November, 2012 Arabic Content Digital Media Entertainment
Want to Drive an Aramex Delivery Truck? Check out the Winners of the Aramex Gameon Competition Aramex has announced the winning developers of the Aramex Gameon Competition 2012. This is the first time Aramex has hosted the... Glen Dalakian II • 05 November, 2012 Competitions Developers Gaming
Lebanon’s Anghami Launches the First Music Streaming Platform for the Middle East: PROMOCODE Included Forget Spotify. Anghami is here! Launching today for iPhone, the platform is bringing the Arab world its first mobile and web music... Nina Curley • 05 November, 2012 Mobile Mobile Apps Music
Jordan Building the first high-end 3D game in a virtual Arab world: Planet Toulan For awhile, I’ve been wondering why no gaming studio in the Middle East that I knew of was building a high-end video game on the level of, s... Nina Curley • 04 November, 2012 Gaming beladcom
Failure, Timing, and Monetization: A Chat with Ihsan Jawad, Founder of Zawya [Wamda TV] At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Ihsan Jawad of Honeybee Tech Ventures discusses how to move forward after failure, how to know ... Wamda • 04 November, 2012 Advice Conferences Ecosystem
Grass E-Magazine Paves the Way for Scientific Journalism in the Arab World More often than not, those who write in science journals are scientists rather than scienctific journalists. While several western... Hanan Solayman • 04 November, 2012 Digital Media Environment Media