Regional Innovative tent for refugees harnesses renewable energy What the tents, in use, could look like. (Images via Abeer Seikaly) Nearing the half-decade mark, the Syrian Civil War has by modest... Samuel Wendel • 27 September, 2015 refugees tent abeer seikaly
Regional Industrial Internet and energy efficiency in the Middle East When a car’s fuel is running low, a little dial will let you know, and on the average car you can bet you’ve got about 40km at... Lucy Knight • 13 August, 2015 Energy saving Satchnet Chifco
U.A.E Green Truck: a UAE private recycling service The Green Truck warehouse. (Image via Green Truck) The UAE has one of the highest per capita waste generation rates in the world. Putting... Rachel McArthur • 23 August, 2015 Green Truck MEMakers waste
Egypt Building Egypt’s biogas market Startups offering biogas or waste treatment solutions are slowly gearing up in the Middle East, but only Taqa Solutions had a reality... Rachel Williamson • 03 August, 2015 Taqa Solutions Biogas MEMakers
Regional Supercharging the new energy order [part 1] This year the world is abuzz with the word 'batteries', as Tesla releases its wall-mounted storage device for the home and the... Rachel Williamson • 14 July, 2015 cleantech Arabia Oil batteries
Regional The future of energy is in batteries [Infographic] This year the world is abuzz with the word 'batteries', as Tesla releases its wall-mounted storage device for the home and the... Rachel Williamson • 12 July, 2015 cleantech Arabia MEMakers Oil
Maghreb 3D printing tackles plastic on the shores of Morocco Jennifer Gadient and Fabian Wyss in front of their Ultimaker 3D printer. (Image via Aline Mayard) It’s 6pm on the beach at Taghazout, a f... Aline Mayard • 05 July, 2015 3d printing waste morocco
Regional MENA biogas startups struggle for lift-off [Infographic] Biogas hasn’t taken off in the Middle East yet, and the entrepreneurs driving it forward are battling both corporate rivals and a... Rachel Williamson • 30 June, 2015 Taka Solutions Biogas MEMakers
Egypt Meet the Egyptian startup working to green the Middle East's oil industry Fifteen years ago fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, irrevocably changed the global oil and gas sector. Today, technology developed in the... Rachel Williamson • 07 June, 2015 oil & gas Tanmia Petroleum Company Green Energy
Egypt Egyptian power cuts fuel an ecommerce solution For the majority of Egypt’s 82 million residents, 2014 will no doubt go down in history as the year of the power cut. It didn’t matter whi... Rachel McArthur • 02 June, 2015 Green Scene Egypt clean tech Green Energy
Jordan Renewable energy and gender equality tackled in Amman conference Special guest Lina Khalifeh, founder of Shefighter, stands with CWEEL-Jordan's Suhair Al Mhairat during the 1st Anniversary Meeting.... Samuel Wendel • 31 May, 2015 cweel jordan cweel MEMakers
Regional The right policy can power renewable energy startups The Middle East renewable energy sector for startups is in its infancy, but there’s huge potential for entrepreneurs to play a role... Rachel Williamson • 25 May, 2015 MEMakers KarmSolar Solar panels
Egypt How nanotechnology can push Egypt through its energy crisis Nanotechnology has been used in the oil and gas sector for decades, but in the last 15 years companies have been investing bigger sums... Rachel Williamson • 21 May, 2015 EOR nanotechnology Future University Cairo
Egypt Sun shines on Egypt's solar startups Sarah Mousa eyed the small boys, vigorously hacking at each other with sticks in the narrow backstreet of Cairo’s Al Darb Al Ahmar... Rachel Williamson • 30 April, 2015 MEMakers Roundup solar energy
U.A.E Mobile solar power in UAE gets a $10M boost Enerwhere, a Dubai-based energy startup company that supplies the commercial sector with transportable solar-hybrid power plants, has... Wamda • 09 March, 2015 Adenium Enerwhere uae
U.A.E Bright future for drones industry on display at UAE contest The winning, Swiss, team. (Image via Drones for Good) Dubai Internet City was buzzing with the sounds of drones this week at the inaugural... Sushmitha Pidatala • 12 February, 2015 Unmanned aerial vehicle UAV Drones for good
Regional Building the Arab region’s biggest B2B market place is not without its challenges Two years ago Syrian entrepreneur Salim Akil was poised to make his SearchinMena.com, a Yellow Pageseque search engine, the region’s l... Pamela Kesrouani • 17 February, 2015
Maghreb Tunisian startup begins manufacturing innovative wind turbine; announces Microsoft partnership Anyone who has had the chance to speak to Anis Aouini and Hassine Labaïed, the cofounders of Tunisia’s Saphon Energy, knows that ... Aline Mayard • 03 December, 2014 Saphon green tech Green Energy
Egypt 5 startups to watch in Egypt's exciting agritech sector Following last week's agritech overview, we profile five up-and-coming businesses from the startups seeking to revolutionize the way... Rachel Williamson • 03 December, 2014 Schaduf Agrimatic Farms CUBII
U.A.E Sleek smoke alarm chirps its way to Dubai (and funding) An elderly woman using a gas stove to heat her home right after Hurricane Katrina sounds like a recipe for disaster. But in the aftermath... Lucy Knight • 25 September, 2014 birdi smartlivingcity dubai
5 easy ways to green your MENA startup Time and money are precious when building a startup. Because going green is often seen as expensive on both fronts, and because it’s a r... Aline Mayard • 19 August, 2014 eco friendly green Environment
'Lebanon can become like Singapore,' says Lebanese-American energy executive Ahmad Chatila When Ahmad Chatila graduated high school in Lebanon in the mid-1980s, the country was embroiled in its bloody civil war. After emigrating... Anwar Aridi • 27 July, 2014 solar energy lebanon Diaspora
Egypt Egypt's energy crisis forces increased interest in clean tech A year ago, Karim Mostafa, CEO of solar energy solutions provider Gaia, was struggling to get anyone to listen to his... Daria Solovieva • 29 June, 2014 solar green tech Egypt
Oasis500 launches Omraan, a funding competition for startups working to solve urban problems As it intensifies its effort to spread entrepreneurial culture in the region, Jordanian tech-focused incubator Oasis500 launches its first... Maya Rahal • 07 April, 2014 Competitions