Regional Half of Arab youth visit Youtube every day [Report] According to the Arab Youth Survey 2017, published by ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller this week, 35 percent of young people in the Arab... Maya Rahal • 04 May, 2017 Arab youth Report YouTube
Turkey A look at Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem [Podcast] This podcast has been crossposted from Wamda Capital. The Turkish ecosystem has come a long way over the past three to four years. The... Maya Rahal • 13 January, 2017 podcast Wamda Capital ecosystem growth
Jordan 300 days of sunlight a year: a look at Jordan's solar sector Jordan’s latest solar energy deal with a UAE company marks the largest power plant to be built on Jordanian soil. The deal, along... Tala El Issa • 28 November, 2016 solar energy Jordan Solar panels
Regional Cleantech startups in MENA face many challenges but remain resilient [Report] MENA is experiencing some of the most daunting environmental challenges on earth. Energy and water scarcity coupled with an... Teeb Assaf • 04 October, 2016 Cleantech MEMakersGE Report
Saudi Arabia Foodics: the Saudis taking on Gulf restaurant giants In Saudi, the food and beverage (F&B) sector is one of the largest in the Gulf. Probably no surprise there, as in MENA food and... Ahmed Gabr • 14 August, 2016 Foodics ksa Alwans
Egypt How the Arab Spring planted seeds of innovation in Egypt [Podcast] This podcast is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The 2011 uprising in Egypt that saw the overthrow of longtime President Hosni... Knowledge @Wharton • 27 June, 2016 philanthropy Ahead of the Curve Egypt
Regional Big data in health: good for anything yet? Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr.... Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2016 Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics
Kuwait Getting them young: empowering Kuwait’s youth entrepreneurs This article has been crossposted from Nuwait. Two organisations, one local the other not, are trying to give Kuwait's young people... Reine Farhat • 28 June, 2016 Injaz Nuwait sirdab lab
Egypt Is Ousta Egypt's fastest growing startup ever? [Q&A] [Update July 27: five months after launching Ousta is negotiating a $5.6 million investment round.] Ride hailing app... Radwa Rashad • 29 June, 2016 ride hailing Ousta careem
Maghreb For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems What if Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia joined forces to solve their social problems? It’s a germ of an idea that a small number of... Yassine Bakir • 22 June, 2016 algerian startup initiative espace bidaya Lab'Ess
Palestine Scarcity fuels Gaza hardware invention boom Following the successful Bold Knot crowdfunding campaign* in 2015, Gazan entrepreneurs have started pursuing their own hardware... Rafat Abushaban • 22 June, 2016 Sketch Engineering The Explorer Robot Taawon
Bahrain Skip ahead: Skiplino wants to put queuing behind us According to a Lebanese Central Bank official at the Arabnet Beirut summit this year, the Lebanese enjoy queuing in banks and use the... Eman Mostafa • 23 June, 2016 Skiplino LevelZ SAAS
Egypt Rubber a hot commodity for Egypt startup Retyres Driving Cairo’s ring road or through one of its many poorer outskirts, one often encounters the distinct smell of burned rubber:... Eduard Cousin • 19 June, 2016 tyres rubber Retyres
Egypt Egyptian selfie drone wins $26K Swiss investment Egyptian drone startup Drofie has attracted the attention of the Swiss, securing a 25,000 Swiss francs (US$26,000) investment and a spell... Rachel Williamson • 19 June, 2016 Fame monster Latvia Kickstart Accelerator
Maghreb Ubisoft Casablanca closes: is this good news for Morocco game devs? After 18 years of activity French gaming giant Ubisoft has announced it will close its Casablanca studio, leaving 48 developers looking for... Aline Mayard • 14 June, 2016 Rym games Moroccan Game Developers The Wall Games
Saudi Arabia Curing KSA's concrete water problem Concure founders Mohammed Khalil, Dr. Feras Kafiah & Husam Walwil. (Image via Concure) Curing concrete is a tedious process that... Bérénice Magistretti • 08 June, 2016 curing blanket wet curing blanket concrete
U.A.E Doctoruna: making healthcare accessible in MENA Since they launched in 2013, healthcare appointment website and mobile app Doctoruna has been on a mission to minimize the all too... Archana Menon • 02 June, 2016 DoctorUna MEMakersGE Bayt
Egypt Integreight launches IOT home automation kit Integreight at the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo, California: CTO Islam Mustafa, embedded software engineer Eslam... Eduard Cousin • 05 June, 2016 home automation Togglit MEMakersGE
Palestine Tracking Palestine's tech talent at AngelHack The AngelHack Gaza competition produced some interesting ideas. (Images via Gaza Sky Geeks) Coding is increasingly becoming a... Rafat Abushaban • 30 May, 2016 coding competition Angelhack Ramallah palestine
Lebanon FOO's timing curse: when being ahead of the game is a problem Foo founders Elie Nasr and Ghady Rayess. (Image via Brooke Anderson) Being early to the market can be both a blessing and... Brooke Anderson • 25 May, 2016 app development Foo lebanon
Regional Arab girls defy stereotypes at Microsoft Imagine Cup Two teams from Tunisia alongside one from Bahrain will represent MENA at the global final in Seattle. (Images via Eduard Cousin) Malak... Eduard Cousin • 31 May, 2016 microsoft imagine cup microsoft Egypt
Regional MENA’s startup health movement: a MEMakers report In a new report from Wamda Research Lab (WRL) in partnership with GE, we interviewed over 120 entrepreneurs, investors,... Willam Altman • 29 May, 2016 startup health digital health MEMakersGE
Egypt US-based Affectiva raises $14M Series D Affectiva's software can differentiate between a smirk, a happy smile, and a polite smile. (Images via Affectiva) Emotion... Rachel Williamson • 27 May, 2016 emotion recognition Rana el Kaliouby Affectiva
Regional Your definitive list of MENA coworking spaces This piece has been updated from its original publishing date on July 2013. Without external support, building a successful startup can... Aline Mayard • 28 April, 2016 Dubai Technology Entrepreneurship Centre (DTEC) The Coworking Café Startup Haus