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A Look at Entrepreneurship in Morocco: Where Can Startups Turn for Help?

Entrepreneurs in Morocco today face several challenges: meeting mentors and investors, finding a suitable office space, building...

Mentorship Ecosystem Coworking Spaces

AUC Venture Lab Challenge Deadline - Cairo, Egypt

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program (EIP) at the American University of Cairo School of Business, in cooperation with Intel, has...

Incubator Egypt Education

How Gaming Startups Can Measure the Success of a New Release

Game developers across the Arab world are picking up steam, but recent releases by mobile developers in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt show...

Mobile Gaming Marketing Mobile

Google Acquires Wavii for $30 Million, a Startup Founded by a Lebanese Entrepreneur

In Silicon Valley, the race is on to build a better mobile news summarizer. Google is the latest to make a move, with its...

Mobile Google

A Look Inside Lebanon's Game Cooks as They Launch a New iOS Game

The development studio for Game Cooks is set on a hill in Mansourieh, Lebanon overlooking a sprawling Beirut. After its two...

Developers Mobile Gaming Gaming

A Look at Egypt's ICT Sector: Growth, Strategy, and Impact on Startups

Note: this piece has been adapted from the Arabic original. To help the Egyptian economy recover from the revolution, the Egyptian...

Advertising Egypt Mobile

STC Announces First Investment in Saudi-Based Education Platform Acadox

STC Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi Telecom Company (STC), has announced investment in Acadox, a Saudi Arabia-based...

STC Ventures E-Learning Investment

Social Business Gets a Boost in Tunisia with Launch of Muhammad Yunus's New Holistic Movement

March 13th was a day to remember in Tunisia this year. That day, Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi Noble Prize winner and one of the...

Job Creation Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Lebanon's Presella Targets the Globe with an E-ticketing and Event Crowdfunding Platform

Watching people entering the We Were Evergreen concert in Beirut a few weeks ago was certainly a show. People were excited to show their...

Crowdfunding E-commerce

Swiss Platform Works to Boost the Arab Film Industry

Arab cinema is gaining popularity across the Arab world, as many young documentary and short film producers are making names for...

Entertainment Arabic Content

Rocket's HelloFood Launches in Saudi Arabia and Morocco; Can It Tackle the Middle East?

Yesterday, Rocket Internet expanded their HelloFood brand into Saudi, marking the German clone factory's first expansion of its...

Rocket Internet Food & Beverage Delivery

How Reviews Convince Customers to Buy E-commerce Products [Infographic]

With Arab users often not trusting online payment, e-commerce platforms in some markets in the Middle East have struggling to move away...

Reviews E-commerce

Should You Get an MBA or Start a Business?

A few years ago, I completed my MBA at HKUST in Hong Kong, which is currently ranked 8th worldwide by the Financial Times. I’m now running ...

MBA Advice Education

Should Companies in the Arab World Offer the Ability to Work from Home?

Who would have guessed that in 2013 we would still be discussing the pros and cons of working from home? Just a few weeks ago, it seemed...

Team Coworking Spaces

How Companies Manage CEO Turnover across the Globe [Report]

Most companies around the global prefer to hire their CEOs locally or from within, a new study has found. 83% of companies that hired a...

ceo Job Recruitment Programme

Introduction to Video Games Design Workshop - Amman, Jordan

Design Institute Amman is hosting an introduction to video game design workshop on May 23-25th in Amman. The 3-day course will take...

Workshops Gaming

Born of the Revolution, Culture Corner Challenges Egypt's Intellect

The day after the Egyptian revolution, six youths decided to start rebuilding the country their way, by creating a Culture Corner. The idea...

Social Change Education Social Entrepreneurship

Meet the First Arabic Music Teaching Platform

Correction: We received an update that I3zif may not be launching an e-store. After struggling to learn how to play the guitar in Jordan,...

Education E-commerce

Can You Marry Profit with Social Impact? Answers from ArabNet Beirut

I recently attended my first ArabNet in Beirut take part in the social impact sessions. Speaking an entirely different language than C++,...

Social Change Arabnet Social Entrepreneurship

12 Stats Every Employer in the Middle East Should Know

Bayt.com recently polled professionals from across the Middle East and North Africa and compiled the below list of takeaways from their...

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