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Palestine

GITR Palestine announces champions

Three startups prevailed as champions of the Get in The Ring challenge, held for the first time in Ramallah on November...

Get In The Ring Foundation ramallah gaza sky geeks

Regional

Lebanese entrepreneurs excel at Harvard Arab Weekend Competition

The WhiteLab team receiving the first prize. (Images via Harvard Arab Weekend) Ten MENA-focused entrepreneurs pitched their startups...

MoviePigs Slighter WhiteLab

U.A.E

Wamda and GE organize closing day of MEMakers Venture Program

GE mentors and MENA entrepreneurs during the mentorship session (Images via Kamel El Asmar) A little over six weeks after launching the GE...

MEMakers GE Venture Program MEMakers

Lebanon

Seedstars World touches down in Beirut

Overall winners Codefish with the Seedstar competitors in Beirut. (Images via UK Lebanon Tech Hub) For the second year running Beirut...

Fallound Merchandizer Seedstars Global

Jordan

Inspire ME creativity conference aims to spark innovation in graphic design

Graphic designers in Jordan are a forward-thinking group, according to Medhat Eid, an Adobe Community Professional based in...

Graphic Design Inspire ME designers

Lebanon

Lebanon's Global Entrepreneurship Week in full swing

GEW Lebanon's official launch at cohost ElementN drew many. (Images via GEW) Lebanon's Global Entrepreneurship Week is in full swing,...

MENA lebanon events

Kuwait

Nuqat’s Copy+Paste Syndrome discusses imitation and innovation

This article is a crosspot with Nuwait. Are there any original ideas? Is imitating another idea a good thing? Does copying ideas encourage...

Nuqat Nuwait kuwait

Iraq

Curing Iraq's coder crisis

Iraqi startups suffer from a critical lack of skilled coders but a new bootcamp in Baghdad called The Week is trying to narrow this talent...

app developers coders The Week

Regional

Beirut's first hackathon for women breaks stereotypes

MENA's future developers pause for a photo at the She Develops hackathon. (Images via Karim Shehab) A lot has been said about the...

android developers She Develops app developers

Jordan

Eureka Tech Talk ignites spark for tech and entrepreneurship in Jordanian kids

Two Eureka students present to the crowd. (Images via Samuel Wendel) Like many countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan is...

Tech Talk global entrepreneurship week Eureka

Maghreb

Why accelerators are flocking to Tunisia

Are you ready for more Demodays? (Image via Flat6Labs) Tunisia has an impressive number of entrepreneurship training and mentoring...

Start'act Wikistartup Founders Institute

U.A.E

Big Data leading innovation, SmartCon 2015

Bora Arslan believes that big data is overused and exaggerated, creating mistrust in people. (Images via Pamela Kesrouani) Big data “will t...

smartcon Smart Cities MEMakers

Turkey

Optimism in Turkey’s startups continues at Webit’s DIGIT EMEA 2015

Webit Foundation's chairman Plamen Russev takes the stage. (Image via Andrii Degeler) The Webit DIGIT EMEA conference rolled into Istanbul...

Webit DIGIT EMEA Webit turkey

U.A.E

UK’s Deliveroo makes its UAE debut

Deliveroo's app now available in Dubai. (Images via Deliveroo) The UK-based food delivery site Deliveroo is launching in the UAE. With a...

Index Ventures Accel Hummingbird Ventures

Regional

First Syrian takes home top prize in Stars of Science

Yaman Abou Jieb taking home first prize. (Images via Stars of Science) Yaman Abou Jieb prides himself in being the first Stars of Science...

Qatar Foundation competition Stars of Science

Palestine

Palestinian startup to compete in Seedstars World finals

First place and a ticket to Switzerland: meet the Mashvisor team. (Images via Arabreneur) Mashvisor has been selected as a national winner...

Mashvisor SeedStars International seedstars

Maghreb

Devoxx Morocco brings together techies and startups

Connecting at Devoxx Morocco. (Images via Aline Mayard) I heard entrepreneurs voice a familiar complaint on a recent Monday evening at New...

Devoxx morocco Developers

U.A.E

With new workshops and corporates on board; 2015 Mix N’ Mentor roadshow concludes in Dubai

Workshops, mentorship and enthusiasm - it's all there at Mix N' Mentor. Scheduled for December 10 at Hult Business School, Dubai Internet...

Marketplace Edition mix n mentor dubai Mix n Mentor

Maghreb

Algeria to get its first coworking space

Coworking and more at Sylabs (Image via Sylabs) The Algerian web community has many brillant tech minds, motivated marketers, and...

sylabs algeria Coworking Spaces

U.A.E

twofour54 exits four years investment in SAE Institute to CedarBridge

Snapshot duing one of the 3D animation courses offered by SAE (image is from the SAE platform) twofour54 announced today its exit from...

SAE Institute Exit TwoFour54

Lebanon

Le Wagon deploys first batch of coders in Beirut

General manager of Le Wagon El Khoury speaks out (Image via Ayman Farhat) Coding school Le Wagon graduated its first batch of Beirut-based ...

Le Wagon beirut Coding

Regional

Eco and social entrepreneurs meet in Barcelona

Enrique de Villamore Martín, director of SCP/RAC, speaks at the the SwitchMed networking panel. (Images via SwitchMed) More than 400 ...

Social Entrepreneurship SwitchMed

U.A.E

Young Saudi entrepreneur honored at Takreem’s 2015 awards

Khaled AlKhudair receives the Young Entrepreneur award. (Images via Takreem) In honour of his efforts as the founder and CEO of Glowork,...

AlKamandjati Palestinian Happy Child Center TAKREEM

Regional

Intel's ChallengeME IoT competition announces winners

Intel's ChallengeME competition showcased a diversity of IoT innovation at Berytech in Beirut. (Images via Lina Mubarak) A logistics...

ChallengeME IoT MEMakers

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