Wamda

Startups at Palestine's first accelerator bet on P2P lending, travel, and therapy

“Five years ago there were no startups,” Yousef Ghandour, a tech entrepreneur with 14 years of experience in the field, says of the eco...

Fast Forward Peer-to-peer

'Arab Inspire' hopes to make entrepreneurship a way of life for youth and artists

Artists and youngsters have one thing in common: they could use some help from professionals to take the leap, start a company, and make...

tunisia Artist Entrepreneurs Mentorship

7 things that entrepreneurs need to succeed, from the World Entrepreneurship Forum

Abdul Baset Al Janahi, CEO of Dubai SME At the World Entrepreneurship Forum last week in Dubai, leading figures came together to discuss...

world entrepreneurship forum wef uae

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...

Spark TEDx Women

Personal skills are the focus of Mowgli's new entrepreneur mentorship program

Entrepreneurs are often advised to choose their partners carefully, as they may end up spending even more time with them than they do with...

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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...

GEW

Looly's takes home Startup Cup Maroc

It’s official: the Moroccan startup of the year is Looly’s! At least, it’s the startup that won the first edition of Maroc Start...

events Competitions

Dubai SME debuts the first World Entrepreneurship Forum in the Middle East

Dubai SME is set to host the UAE chapter of the World Entrepreneurship Forum to promote entrepreneurial idea exchange and networking ...

wef entreprenership Dubai

Boris Johnson announces £100 million tech fund for Middle East startups

In a move designed to bring booming tech ecosystems in the UK and the Middle East closer together, London mayor Boris Johnson...

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Dubai's Emaar launches $100 million fund for emerging designers

As a series of glamorous events this week in Dubai attract the fashion world’s heavyweights, Emaar, the Middle East’s biggest developer, ha...

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...

Women Hadafi Saudi Arabia

Not another cupcake shop: Bahrain's women entrepreneurs debate what local startups need

If there’s one place in the Arab world one can go to understand the complex relationship between women, government, and entrepreneurship i...

Ecosystem

3 ways to build a better city

Developing a world-class city often involves creating a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem. New studies from McKinsey and the National...

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Government

Shekra and Injaz Al-Arab partner to support crowdfunding with mentorship

Fundraising is crucial for startups, but entrepreneurs also need knowledge and experience to realize success. That's why Shekra,...

Stars of Science launches fifth season with more women: 'innovation knows no gender'

Stars of Science, the hit pan-Arab science and technology reality-TV competition, returns this Friday, Sept 13 on MBC 4 (8pm KSA), for its...

Science Stars of Science Competitions

Digital agency Intigral launches new incubator to help startups reach the Saudi market

Ready for a new incubator? Dubai-based digital media company Intigral launched one today, to support startups building digital products...

STC Incubator Saudi Arabia

Flat6Labs debuts a new model; will it set the tone for regional startup acceleration?

Accelerators in the Arab world are all the rage lately. For every one that has shut down since we last listed the Top 10...

Accelerators

Why we left Dubai: A Bahraini startup's challenges

In a previous post, I wrote about the reasons why my startup (fishfishme.com) made the move to Dubai and how we settled there. Following...

Incubator

Moroccan entrepreneurs vent about lack of early stage investment (what really happened to MNF)

Can early stage startups still find funding in Morocco? Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF), the country's only major institutional early...

Government Investment MNF

Is mandatory military service hurting entrepreneurship in Egypt?

Imagine what the world would be like if Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had all been forced to spend three years in...

Government Ecosystem Legal

Can a Saudi matching platform succeed in securing deals for startups online?

There's been no shortage of attempts to launch a viable, active angel network in the region; while the Arab Busines Angels...

Funding models Investment

Women social entrepreneurs in Upper Egypt get a boost from World Bank competition

To support young women social entrepreneurs in Egypt who are promoting job creation, encouraging rural development, and alleviating...

Egypt Social Entrepreneurship

How intel is supporting young entrepreneurs in the Arab world [Wamda TV]

During Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh this past May, we chatted with Khaled Adas, Strategic Relationship Manager at Intel for the Middle East ...

Mix n Mentor

Why the employment process in the Arab world is broken, and 4 ways to fix it

This piece was originally published on the Huffington Post on July 9, 2013. Let me state the obvious: the employment process is...

Job Creation Youth Government

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