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Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s Rwaq team hope to create community of educators

This article has been crossposted from Firnas.org We are so close to an awakening in the Arab world. In the past three years there has been...

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Lebanon

Flat6Labs to launch Beirut accelerator

Regional accelerator Flat6Labs will open a chapter in Beirut, cofounder Hany El-Sonbaty announced today at the Arabnet conference. The...

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U.A.E

Can Yebab use photo messaging to take on Instagram?

Instagram is one of the most popular social networking sites to upload and share images, but the founders of Yebab believe that their...

Yebab instagram

Kuwait

Physical gets digital for self storage with Kuwait's BoxIt

For decades now, self-storage in America has been big business. Fuelled by that all-American accumulative consumerist instinct, by 2009...

sirdab lab self-storage storage

Maghreb

10 reasons to boost e-payment in Algeria

In the past few years, I’ve had the chance to learn about the entrepreneurial ecosystem in more than one country in the MENA region and E...

e-payments algeria

Regional

What KinTrans' Mohammed Elwazer learned at SeedStars International

KinTrans may not have won SeedStars 2015 competition in Geneva in February, but founder Mohammed Elwazer didn’t walk away empty h...

SeedStars International hearing impaired KinTrans

Jordan

Hivos and Project Pen aim to disrupt electronic publishing in Jordan

In response to the Arab publishing industry’s recent increased attention to the internet, Hivos has dedicated the Disrupt!...

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U.A.E

Mobile solar power in UAE gets a $10M boost

Enerwhere, a Dubai-based energy startup company that supplies the commercial sector with transportable solar-hybrid power plants, has...

Adenium Enerwhere uae

Regional

How ArabiaWeather battles the forces of nature

Residents of the Middle East don't need me to tell them that this year so far has been a doozy in terms of weather. First, we had...

yohan windy huda

Regional

Groceries through smartphones: how ecommerce is changing MENA's shopping habits

We all remember how our grandmothers used to yell to "Abou Ahmad," the grocery shop owner at the bottom of the building, to fill...

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Jordan

Health monitoring device takes first place at Amman’s Maker Hackathon

Attendees experiment with littleBits while developing preliminary prototype designs. (Images via Dina Al Zubi) A health-monitoring...

amman Healthcare Medical

Lebanon

Lebanon's Blessing Foundation to scale its network of women in business to the region

Last month, 85 business owners – many strangers to each other – gathered in an upscale Beirut café. Each was in a specific stage of their bu...

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Egypt

Egyptian news startup aims to change the media landscape

Students from Deshna, Egypt, pull sugarcane from tractors on Egypt’s Aswan Agriculture Road, which usually puts students’ lives in danger (...

Regional

When will the Middle East adopt Bitcoin? We ask 3 experts.

(Image via bitcoin.org) Over the last few years, the MENA region has seen a growing interest in Bitcoin, the digital currency. While...

Bitcoin

Lebanon

Lebanese government inks $6.4 million loan to create tech hub

Lebanon’s government is moving forward with an initiative aimed at strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship in its mobile internet e...

Ministry of Telecommunications MIHub tech hub

Regional

5 websites that put Arab designers on the international map

Arab designers got talent, and now it’s time for the whole world to know. A few entrepreneurs have taken it upon themselves to bring t...

Art Design Fashion

Regional

Crowdfunding platforms see education as key to growth

A recent panel at the MENA ICT Forum included liwwa's Ahmed Moor, second from left; crowdfunding strategist Ronald Kleverlan, third...

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Turkey

Abraaj Group acquires 25% stake in Turkey's largest retailer

The Abraaj Group has acquired a 25% stake in Hepsiburada.com, one of Turkey’s largest online retailers. The investment will allow H...

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Syria

Displaced Syrian developers bringing unique skill sets to benefit the region

Syrian entrepreneurs and developers at Startup Weekend Damascus (image via Huffington Post). Syria’s nearly four-year-old civil war has l...

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U.A.E

Can a UAE government app solve the address quandary of ecommerce delivery?

Last March, Sheikh Mohammed promised to transform Dubai into a ‘Smart City’, and at Payfort we were eager to see how that pledge would mak...

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Syria

How Syrian entrepreneurs are creatively working through war

The tech ecosystem is booming in the MENA, we keep hearing. More investments were made in regional startups last year than ever before,...

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Kuwait

The war story behind Rocket Internet's acquisition of Kuwait's Talabat

This piece was originally published on February 15th, 2015 on LinkedIn. When 33-year-old Kuwaiti entrepreneur Abdulaziz Al Loughani first...

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U.A.E

'Huge amounts' of support among Dubai's startup community, report entrepreneurs [Wamda TV]

How supportive is the startup community in Dubai of young startups and fresh entrepreneurs? There are “huge amounts” of support, says Sarah ...

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Regional

12 lessons learned in helping your talent thrive

Photo credits. Looking back at 2014, it was quite a fruitful year in terms of funds announced and investment deals closed. But one...

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