Saudi Arabia

A Saudi teaching platform attracts a million students

One year following the failure of an ecommerce platform they had launched due to the lack of market readiness, Saudi entrepreneurs Mohammed...

Maya Rahal • 22 August, 2017

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Regional

New startups on the block: June

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

Reine Farhat • 04 June, 2017

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Jordan

Edtech gives hope to a generation without schooling

Over 200 people gathered last week in Amman with a goal of digitalizing education to better reach the 750,000 Syrian refugee children out...

Tala El Issa • 05 March, 2017

EdTech Education No Lost Generation Edtech Summit

Jordan

2017 NLG EdTech Summit

The 2017 NLG Edtech Summit is a forum where edtech innovations and projects from the region that support children most impacted by the...

Wamda • 15 February, 2017

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Global

Artificial Intelligence will make our kids better learners [WamdaTV]

Looking at traditional education, the system is focused on ‘teaching’ rather than ‘learning’. This is what Philipp...

Maya Rahal • 18 January, 2017

Artificial intelligence MIT Media Lab Philip Schmidt

U.A.E

Education + tech = a whole new world

Education and technology are often a contested pairing because of the latter’s potential to either serve as an aid or, undesirably, a...

Archana Menon • 26 October, 2016

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U.A.E

Itworx Education glocalizes e-learning in EMEA and beyond

In 2003 Itworx Education was officially established as a division of its much older parent company, Cairo-based IT service...

Vanessa Khalil • 19 September, 2016

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Regional

Edtech and the future of work in MENA

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in the midst of a tremendous inflection point, with the future of the...

Willam Altman • 26 April, 2016

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Maghreb

What happens if someone steals your idea?

A month ago a story made the headlines in Algeria: in 2014 the well-known, deep-pocketed media entrepreneur Kamel Haddar allegedly stole...

Aline Mayard • 25 April, 2016

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Egypt

Egypt startups try to halt education, tech skills slide

Tech education experts gather st the GrEEK Campus during the EduVation Summit. (Images via EduVation) Traditionally, countries have...

Eman Mostafa • 14 April, 2016

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Jordan

Jordan ed-tech startup secures deal with UNRWA

The EDaura team. Founder and CEO Nidal Khalifeh at far left, cofounder Muneer Saifi third from left, standing. (Image via Samuel...

Samuel Wendel • 24 February, 2016

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Saudi Arabia

Ed-tech to the rescue of Saudi Arabia's schools

Saudi Arabia’s education system has many problems. Despite the government allocating 25 percent of its $229 billion budget to education in ...

Ahmed Gabr • 24 February, 2016

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Maghreb

How will technology change education in Algeria?

Crowded classrooms, teacher strikes - Algeria's education is not doing well. (Image via McIlwraith Education) Want a recipe for a perfect...

Aline Mayard • 27 July, 2015

online education algeria EdTech

Palestine

Palestinian FOA Academy joins the fleet of ed-tech startups

According to the Broadband Commission for Digital Development more than half of the world’s population will have access to the internet b...

Eman Mostafa • 24 February, 2015

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Egypt

Egypt ed-tech firm eyes home turf for expansion [Wamda TV]

One of Egypt’s earliest technology companies is beginning to venture into its local education market, having already conquered the...

Rachel Williamson • 18 December, 2014

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Regional

Lesson One: Mapping Education Technology Startups in the MENA

Education is a powerful tool. Those of us privileged enough to get a good education often forget that for the majority of people around...

Nafez Dakkak • 12 October, 2014

Wamda Research Lab EdTech Education

Arabic MOOC platform Edraak launches to bring quality education to the region

Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs as they are more commonly known – are online courses that are offered to large amounts of par...

Hayden Pirkle • 15 June, 2014

edraak EdTech Education

Jordanian education leader pioneers online university, Arabic web encyclopedia

Amid recent buzz about higher education going online, one of Jordan’s leading education institutions has launched an online education p...

Wamda • 15 July, 2013

EdTech Education

10 tips for adopting the right entrepreneurial mindset

I genuinely believe that entrepreneurship is both a science and an art. The science will fast track your success but won’t get you there. T...

Bassem Fayek • 02 July, 2013

EdTech Tips Education

YouTube and CairoDar Launch education portal for Egyptian high school students

Students studying for tawjihi in Egypt now have a new online resource: YouTube and CairoDar's new education portal, which will provide...

Nina Curley • 27 May, 2013

Students EdTech Education

Why every child in the Middle East should be taught to code

Coauthored by Carine Abi Akar and Nafez Dakkak. Ever since the successful launch of Facebook in 2004, and perhaps as early as the first...

Nafez Dakkak • 21 May, 2013

Coding EdTech Education

Could France's Innovative New Coding School Be Replicated in the Arab World?

“I’ve been working in the Internet industry for 20 years. And for 20 years, I've been facing the same issue: How can I recruit good talent ...

Aline Mayard • 28 March, 2013

EdTech Technology Education

Wamda Launches EdTech Mapping Project - Register Here

Education in the Middle East and North Africa is in crisis. Employers lament low skilled job seekers, unemployment is at an all time high,...

Nafez Dakkak • 17 March, 2013

Mapping EdTech Education

Regional

EdTech in MENA: issues and recommendations [Infographic]

MENA public spending on education as a percentage of GDP exceeds the world average, yet it still badly needs reform.  Youth...

Antoine Abou-Diwan • 18 October, 2015

MENA EdTech