Innovative business model hopes to spark artistic creativity in Palestine “If you live as a victim you stay as a victim,” says Rami Khader, a founding member and manager of Bethlehem’s Diyar Dance Theatre. “The h... Eric Reidy • 30 December, 2013 arts culture dance
Startup news ticker: Google brings Android to cars; new platform for teachers and students Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick... Wamda • 06 January, 2014 morocco Jordan Google
TEDxCarthageWomen celebrates Tunisian women's past, present, and potential Fresh off the success of its September installment, TEDxCarthage held its latest edition, TEDxCarthageWomen on December 8th, 2013 at... Courtney Joline • 18 December, 2013 Spark TEDx Women
Aliqtisadi partners with Harvard Business Review to offer management content in Arabic Aliqtisadi, the Arabic business news portal launched out of Damascus, is continuing to expand despite the challenges of the Syrian... Nina Curley • 15 December, 2013 Aliqtisadi Content Portals Arabic Content
Enigma thinks big data can change the world "Dad, the president retweeted my database!" "Well, it’s great that your boss appreciates your work." "No Dad, I’m talking about the Pre... Aline Mayard • 09 December, 2013 open data big data Diaspora
Saudi Arabia's Rwaq builds a online courseware platform for the Middle East It’s not every day that a leading education initiative launches from Saudi Arabia. But one Riyadh-based company is poised to offer the r... Nina Curley • 05 December, 2013 MOOC
Global Entrepreneurship Week Benghazi goes ahead despite unstable situation For the first time, the Libyan city of Benghazi participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Week between November 18th and 24th, despite... Hadeel Houni • 15 December, 2013 GEW
What role should social media play in classrooms in the Middle East? Facebook, Twitter, and Google have become indispensible tools in our professional as well as social lives; this is fast becoming as true in... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 17 November, 2013 dubai school of government Education
New tech park launches in Tahrir Square to empower Egypt's entrepreneurs and inventors [Coauthored by Nina Curley] Cairo’s Tahrir Square, which will forever be known as the epicenter of Egypt’s revolution, is now ground zero fo... Eman Mostafa • 18 November, 2013 Technology
3 education initiatives help Syrians find jobs and scholarships Among the many tragedies resulting from Syria’s war, thousands of schools have been destroyed and many universities and educational i... Muhanad Sabha • 14 November, 2013 Training Education Social Entrepreneurship
Not an incubator, not an accelerator, but a startup academy: Bedaya launches in Egypt Bedaya Startup Academy is one of the few entrepreneurship training program existing outside the academic sphere in... Hanan Solayman • 11 November, 2013 Training
Meet the business network that's empowering women in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV] CellA is a network for professional Saudi women. Founded in Riyadh, it’s quickly spreading to the rest of the kingdom’s commercial and edu... Ahmed Al Majid • 22 October, 2013 ksa saudi Networking
Why technology is not always the solution for better education Until quite recently, I was a keen advocate of transforming education through technology. Over the years I was inspired by the ideas and... Oubai Elkerdi • 14 October, 2013 E-Learning Technology Education
Saudi Arabia Hadafi competition offers Saudi women the chance to fund business ideas Last week, Dubai-based social enterprise Potential launched Hadafi, a women’s entrepreneurship program designed to empower women in Saudi A... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 15 October, 2013 Women Hadafi Saudi Arabia
Egyptian students shine at Intel Science Competition At an exposition recently held at Intel's Cairo office, eight Egyptian student winners of the Intel Science Competition, between the ages... Ahmed Gabr • 27 October, 2013
One woman's quest to get kids reading in the Arab world Very few initiatives originating in the Arab world achieve international recognition: Kitaby Kitabak (my book, your book in English), a... Ahmed Gabr • 28 October, 2013 libraries library reading
Interact Egypt offers affordable social media marketing courses for entrepreneurs Egyptian entrepreneurs can finally attend professional training courses on key topics related to the marketing of their own startups at... Hanan Solayman • 10 October, 2013 Egypt Workshops Digital Media
U.A.E A look at the winners of the 2013 Gulf Business Industry Awards Gulf Business, a leading news portal in the Middle East, hosted their annual Gulf Business Industry Awards last night,... Reine Farhat • 24 September, 2013 Free zones Gulf Business Industry Awards Awards
How to teach the Arts: The Discipline of a Free Mind In the first part of this series we challenged the popular image of the tormented artist and offered an alternative perspective—that of t... Oubai Elkerdi • 12 September, 2013 Art Advice Education
Beirut's SMEX launches an aggregator to support Arabic content online You've often heard the statistic: while Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world, with 360 million Arabic speakers, only... Maya Rahal • 11 September, 2013 Aggregation Arabic Content
Qatar's EduTechnoz makes learning Arabic fun for kids, with gamification Two years ago, Diana Al-Dajani had a big problem. Her then five-year-old son loathed doing his Arabic homework. “It was an agonizing p... Christina Paschyn • 08 September, 2013 Gamification Education
Lebanon Wixel Studios launched Little Heroes, Big deeds; will it bring them long-awaited success? “To make a successful game, you need to have a good product and a lot of money to market it,” says Ziad Feghali, one of the... Reine Farhat • 29 August, 2013 Education Gaming
Active Citizens Program in Cairo In collaboration with the British Council, Waseela for training and development is organizing an Active Citizens Program in Egypt from... Wamda • 16 August, 2013 Leadership Egypt Education
How to teach the Arts: Debunking the myth of creativity Part I. In our shared imagination, a true artist is a vagabond with manic-depressive traits caught in bad habits. They are someone whose... Oubai Elkerdi • 06 August, 2013 Art Advice Education