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Healthcare portal WebTeb closes Series B round from Siraj Palestine Fund

On top of reaching over 3.5 million unique visitors per month, Arabic medical content portal WebTeb just announced new investment from...

Healthcare Content Portals Health & Beauty

A look at Just Falafel's recipe as it (potentially) readies for an IPO

Fadi Malas of Just Falafel is working overtime lately. “We’re finishing work these days quite late, I think around midnight,” he expla...

IPOs Franchising Scaling

6 tips for successfully crowdfunding your creative project

Got an idea so crazy it just might work? You’re in luck: Zoomaal, the Arab world’s only crowdfunding site, is launching its Cre...

Meet 3 tech companies leading innovation in Pakistan

Pakistan is gradually emerging as a hub of technological innovation. Every day, I come across more companies that are...

Hardware Technology

Can a Turkish game developer win over Saudi Arabia with a localized city-building game?

Turkish game developer Gamester has turned its sights to the Arab market, with new city-building game Baldaty, and they've already...

Social Media Mobile Gaming Gaming

Dubai+Acumen Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition

The Acumen for Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition 2013 (ASE 2013) aims to be an “innovation accelerator” competition designed to e...

Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

How to reduce cash-on-delivery in Middle East e-commerce

At a roundtable hosted by PayPal last week, representatives from some of the region’s biggest e-commerce players gathered to discuss the r...

cash-on-delivery Payment Gateways E-commerce

How Dubai media machine AWI is turning traffic into transactions with new car portal ArabsTurbo

In classifieds, Egypt has become a highly competitive market, with companies like the revamped Waseet, Dubizzle, and Avito’s Bekam duking i...

classified Content Portals

How Lebanese recipe portal Shahiya is empowering women in Saudi Arabia and abroad

Since we last checked in, Shahiya, the Beirut-based community recipe board, has made some serious strides. The site has grown to over...

expat cooking Saudi Arabia

How e-commerce site Kahenas overcame local challenges to sell stunning Moroccan designs

Preserving national heritage is a concern for many cultures today, as globalization causes the production and consumption of similar items...

Art E-commerce

New TV show ‘Generation Entrepreneur’ to launch tomorrow night on OSN

Those interested in meeting the Arab world’s next generation of entrepreneurs will want to catch a new TV show tomorrow night that will c...

Layalina TV Entrepreneurship shows Reality TV

Morocco's FollowLetter: an alternative to Google Reader for newsletter lovers?

Trying to collect and read news during the day is often an essential part of work, and yet it can also be massively distracting; an email,...

Task management Slow-reading Media

Interact Egypt offers affordable social media marketing courses for entrepreneurs

Egyptian entrepreneurs can finally attend professional training courses on key topics related to the marketing of their own startups at...

Egypt Workshops Digital Media

Akhtaboot 4th Job Fair 2013 - Amman

Akhtaboot is hosting their 4th job fair at Amman Grand Hall, Al Hussein Sports City on October 23rd and 24th, 2013. Recognizing a need to...

Job Recruitment Programme

What did startups learn at Astrolabs' recent workshop in Amman?

After their first Scaling Online Startups (SOS) workshop in Dubai this past May, and subsequent workshops in Riyadh and Beirut,...

Astrolabs Workshops Marketing

What Mashrou' Leila's crowdfunding success means for the Arab music scene

Last month, 543 fans of the Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou' Leila gave a combined total of over $66,000 USD to fund the release of the...

Can new media site Beacon create good revenue streams for longform journalists?

Beacon, billing itself as a new kind of media outlet, launched last week to considerable fanfare. The site works on a subscription...

revenue streams Citizen Journalism

A look at the winners of the 2013 Gulf Business Industry Awards

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Healthcare portal WebTeb closes Series B round from Siraj Palestine Fund

A look at Just Falafel's recipe as it (potentially) readies for an IPO

6 tips for successfully crowdfunding your creative project

Meet 3 tech companies leading innovation in Pakistan

Can a Turkish game developer win over Saudi Arabia with a localized city-building game?

Dubai+Acumen Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition

How to reduce cash-on-delivery in Middle East e-commerce

How Dubai media machine AWI is turning traffic into transactions with new car portal ArabsTurbo

How Lebanese recipe portal Shahiya is empowering women in Saudi Arabia and abroad

How e-commerce site Kahenas overcame local challenges to sell stunning Moroccan designs

New TV show ‘Generation Entrepreneur’ to launch tomorrow night on OSN

Morocco's FollowLetter: an alternative to Google Reader for newsletter lovers?

Interact Egypt offers affordable social media marketing courses for entrepreneurs

Akhtaboot 4th Job Fair 2013 - Amman

What did startups learn at Astrolabs' recent workshop in Amman?

What Mashrou' Leila's crowdfunding success means for the Arab music scene

Can new media site Beacon create good revenue streams for longform journalists?

A look at the winners of the 2013 Gulf Business Industry Awards

Why Bee Labs' new game is one of the hottest from the Arab world this year

What are the most surprising e-commerce trends in the Middle East this year?

PayPal Insights: E-commerce in the Middle East [Report]

Algerian and Egyptian startups help travelers sell products from abroad; is this model scalable?

Put global recruiting trends to work in your job search

PayPal Insights e-commerce report reveals trends in mobile, travel in the Middle East

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