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BOOK REVIEW: Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone

Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay John Lanchester It’s perhaps telling when the testimonials on the cover of a finance ...

You don’t have to be Bill Gates to be an entrepreneur

You shouldn’t have to be Bill Gates to be considered an entrepreneur. By Yusuf Mansur. This article first appeared in venture magazine. Do ...

Habib Haddad: Localization: Imitation or Art?

When the Chinese internet giant QQ released Fanfou a few years ago many criticized it as an obvious clone to twitter. The same again...

BOOK REVIEW: Everything Bad is Good for You

It is perhaps of no little comfort that someone has decided that hours spent watching mass-market television, twitching thumbs and...

Creating Communities with Comedy: Jamil Abu Wardeh [Wamda TV]

Jamil Abu Wardeh, the Managing Dictator for JAW Original Content, describes his struggle to create good comedy shows in the Middle East,...

How many hats does the Mini Entrepreneur wear?

Episode 6: Watch the Mini Entrepreneur juggle multiple jobs at his startup. How many different job titles do you have?

The Mini Entrepreneur Fights for Creativity

Episode 3: How does the Mini Enterpreneur face the dark forces of oppression, thought erasers, and idea killers that threaten to suppress...

Naif al Mutawa: The 99 Mistakes I Made

Naif al Mutawa of Islam-inspired comic book series The 99 gives a very personal account of the lessons that he faced over the course of his...

Impressions from CoE 2010

What did participants say about the Celebration of Entrepreneurship 2010?

The Mini Entrepreneur gets his first client

Episode 4: Watch the Mini Entreprenur's blood, sweat, and tears as he tries to please his first big client. Should he continue with the job?

The Mini Entrepreneur Starts Hatching ideas

Episode 2: How does an entrepreneur incubate and hatch ideas?

Maher Kaddoura of Meydan on Inspiring Social Entrepreneurship in the Next Generation

Maher Kaddoura of Meydan and of Hikmat Road Safety discusses the methodology he created in starting Hikmat Road Safety and the importance...

Wael Attili Outlines the Story of How Passion Ignited his Animation Company

Wael Attili sketches the story of how he left architecture and graphic design to start animation company Kharabeesh because of his passion...

Endeavor

Arif Naqvi of Abraaj Capital on Empowering Entrepreneurs and Fostering Innovation

Arif Naqvi sits down with Shahnaz Pakravan of Wamda to discuss the necessity of fostering entrepreneurship in the Middle East, North...

Peter Diamandis: Awarding Big Ideas

Founder and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis believes that competition can drive radical innovation in the sciences. He...

Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything

From the EG conference: Productivity guru Tim Ferriss, author of bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek, delivers a series of fun, encouraging...

One Eye Shut

One Eye Shut Curated by Asmaa Al-Shabibi This collection of fine art photography features artists whose works are inspired by and reflect...

The Adventures of the Mini Entrepreneur: Episode 1

What is the magical ingredient that transforms an ordinary being into an entrepreneur?

Fadi Ghandour at Arabnet 2010

Jordanian Fadi Ghandour, Founder and CEO of international delivery service Aramex, talks frankly about the values and approaches...

Arabnet Fadi Ghandour

What does entrepreneurship mean to attendees of the Women in Information Technology?

Attendees of the Women In Information Technology conference in Beirut discuss the meaning of entrepreneurship.

Implementing ideas at the Young Entrepreneur Competition

Young women entrepreneurs discuss their product ideas and business plans at the Young Entrepreneur Competition that is thrown yearly by the...

Azza Kamel of Alwan wa Awtar on social entrepreneurship

Azza Kamel, Chairperson of Egypt’s Alwan wa Awtar Institute, which uses arts to promote youth social development, speaks at the Ashoka Arab ...

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