Dubai food tech startup Lunch:on raises $500K seed

Lunch:on today announced the closing of a seed round of $500,000 led by Wamda Capital, with participation from Arzan VC, Dubai Angel...

Natasha D'Souza • 03 November, 2016

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Tekuma: turning your boring walls into beautiful art galleries

While art has proven to reduce stress, increase creativity and encourage expression of opinion, too often homes and offices are surrounded...

Dana Ballout • 24 October, 2016

Tekuma Art Real Estate

Can audiobooks inspire more Arabs to read? [Wamda TV]

Rawan Barakat, the founder of Raneen. (Image via Wamda) Studies have shown that Arab citizens hardly care about reading - dedicating...

Kamel Al-Asmar • 11 October, 2016

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The secret toll of entrepreneurship

Ali Chehade-Farhat’s Facebook page reads like the textbook success story every entrepreneur wants to have as their own. On one...

Brooke Anderson • 14 September, 2016

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Sparks fly when girls meet tech [WamdaTV]

It’s not up to young women to be interested in technology, but up to their teachers to find ways to make the subject appealing to...

Rachel Williamson • 13 September, 2016

STEM junkbot Eureka Tech Academy

Summer startups: entrepreneurs nurture Gaza's next generation

With school summer vacations coming to an end, August witnessed a peak in the number of events targeting children in the Gaza...

Rafat Abushaban • 07 September, 2016

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A Google for Arabic e-books

To look for books in Arabic, on free websites, means to enter a cycle of endless electronic links, which might sometimes be unsafe....

Veroniqua Khachan • 27 July, 2016

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Noor Al Qatami: one 2016's most powerful Arab women

This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Kuwaiti Noor Al-Qatami was chosen as one of the 100 most powerful Arab women in...

Ana Tadic • 07 July, 2016

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Lebanese teens invent urine-powered generator

As Lebanon's environmental woes continue to escalate, with mountains of garbage rotting in the street and power cuts lasting...

Maysaa Ajjan • 30 September, 2015

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5 ways to address Lebanon's trash crisis

Lebanon's trash piles up in the streets. (Image via Al Arabiya) Trash is piling up in the streets of Beirut and across Lebanon,...

Maysaa Ajjan • 28 August, 2015

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Lebanese entrepreneurs work to grow new talent in Tripoli

Recently, while walking up and down the stairways of heaven in one of the holiest places in Lebanon - The Qadisha Valley - I had the chance...

Reine Farhat • 21 December, 2014

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Moroccan student entrepreneurs face off at Enactus competition, winner heads to World Cup

Young social entrepreneurs in Morocco are set to compete on the world stage this fall as the Enactus Morocco competition winner is...

Aline Mayard • 23 July, 2013

Entrepreneuriat social Students Competitions

Why we need better arts education in the Arab world

“If the Arab world continues to under-value arts education, it risks falling even further behind developed countries in preparing students ...

Oubai Elkerdi • 09 July, 2013

Art Design Education

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...

Wamda • 10 July, 2013

Competitions Women

Startup Weekend Sulaimani

Startup Weekend comes to Sulaimani, Iraq on August 29, 2013. SW Suly will follow the basic Startup Weekend model, anyone can pitch their i...

Wamda • 08 July, 2013

Startup Weekend

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

Arab Entrepreneurs Spread the 'Power of Yalla'

This piece was originally published on the Harvard Business Review Blog on June 25, 2013. In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe...

Habib Haddad • 01 July, 2013

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Startup Weekend Saida

[Postponed: new date TBD.] Startup Weekend comes to Saida, Lebanon on June 28-30, 2013.  SW Saida will follow the basic Startup Weekend mo...

Wamda • 13 June, 2013

Startup Weekend

Intel Business Challenge Middle East and North Africa 2013 Finals in Abu Dhabi

The Intel Business Challenge Middle East and North Africa 2013 is the gateway to the Intel Global Challenge, bringing together the best e...

Wamda • 11 June, 2013

Competitions

Moroccan American Bridges 2013

The AMPA, Association of Moroccan Professionals in America, is organizing the 7th edition of its annual The Moroccan American Bridges...

Wamda • 10 June, 2013

How to raise your kids to be entrepreneurs

Some children may not be born to be lawyers or doctors, or to get good grades in a traditional school, but they might have other skills...

Aline Mayard • 30 May, 2013

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

10 ways to be a lifelong learner and make it count at your job

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write; but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn,” said wri...

Lama Ataya • 23 May, 2013

E-Learning Tips Mentorship

International StartUps Meeting - Tunis, Tunisia

The International Start-Ups Meeting (ISUM) is an international initiative by AIESEC Alumni to connect startup enthusiasts to allow them to ...

Wamda • 21 February, 2013

Conferences