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Zawayed Jordan Helps Women Transform Leftovers into Artistic Designs

When Mohammad Al-Hajji first founded Zawayed, he was inspired by an opportunity to use the leftovers he saw at regional...

Social Entrepreneurship Women Handicrafts

25 Essential Stats on E-Commerce in the Middle East [Stats]

E-Commerce is Growing 1) There are 72.5 million internet users in MENA. [tweet this stat] 2) 66% of consumers in MENA use...

Top Lists Technology Ecosystem

Understanding the Arab Digital Generation [Report]

A recent report by Strategy& and Google, Understanding the Arab Digital Generation, reveals interesting facts about how the newest...

Booz & Company Digital Media E-commerce

Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 4 [Wamda TV]

In the last segment of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis o...

COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences

The State of the Internet in 2012 [Presentation]

Henry Blodget and Alex Cocotas from Business Insider’s BI Intelligence team have assembled a detailed overview of the U.S. and global digita...

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Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 2 [Wamda TV]

In Part 2 of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis of ArabNet, asks pan...

Advertising COE CoE E-Commerce

Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, Part 3 [Wamda TV]

In Part 3 of our June CoE E-Commerce panel, Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis...

COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences

Developing Mobile And Web Games: Abdullah Hamed of GameTako [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Abdullah Hamed, founder and CEO of GameTako, discusses the big move into mobile games, and advises games developers not to start...

Arabnet Gaming Mobile Gaming

Amidst Daily Deals Market Shuffle, Are Major Changes on the Horizon?

After news of changes at Cobone and Groupon UAE yesterday, more is shifting in the daily deals space globally, with eBay's launch...

Daily Deals E-commerce Expansion

GlamBox: Beauty Product E-Commerce for the Arab World

To tackle the beauty e-commerce space, four young entrepreneurs based in the UAE have self-funded and launched GlamBox, a beauty hub...

E-commerce Women

Stanford's AMENDS Supports Change Makers in the Arab World

If you get inspired by changemakers in the Arab World, check out AMENDS. When the Arab Spring broke out in 2011, two Stanford University...

Social Entrepreneurship

Startups Must Accept Change and Adapt [Pic of the Week]

Things don’t stay the same forever. It’s a fact of life that a lot of people, especially expanding businesses, often have trouble dealing w...

Daily Deals E-commerce Digital Marketing

Offline Businesses Moving Online: Part 1 [Wamda TV]

At our June event CoE E-Commerce panel Going Digital: Offline Businesses Moving Online, moderator Omar Christidis of ArabNet, introduces p...

COE CoE E-Commerce

Can Coffeehouses Boost Creativity in the Arab World?

Since their inception in Istanbul in the 16th century, coffeehouses have been centers of free-wheeling and off-hand discussions, venues...

Food & Beverage

The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 5 [Wamda TV]

In the last segment of our CoE E-Commerce panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, the panel fields audience questions. A...

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Entrepreneur of the Week: Melih Odemis of Yemeksepeti [Wamda TV]

This week's Entrepreneur of the Week is Melih Odemis, co-founder of Yemeksepeti, an online food ordering and delivery service that also ...

Endeavor Entrepreneur of the Week Food & Beverage

Will an Arab Crowdfunding Platform Ever Be Born?

Hundreds of young men and women are spreading ideas, enriching the Arab entrepreneurial arena, developing the community, serving society...

Crowdfunding

The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 4 [Wamda TV]

In Part 4 of our CoE E-Commerce panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, moderator Abed Agha, Founder and CEO of Vinelab, in...

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Wamdat Empower Talk: Zafer Younis of The Online Project [Wamda TV]

At our June CoE E-Commerce event, Zafer Younis, co-founder and CEO of social media agency The Online Project discusses how new brands can...

CoE E-Commerce Social Media COE

The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 2 [Wamda TV]

At our June event, CoE E-Commerce, Abed Agha, Founder and CEO of Vinelab, moderated a panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical ...

COE CoE E-Commerce Digital Media

The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, Part 3 [Wamda TV]

In Part 3 of our CoE E-Commerce panel on The World of E-Commerce, Beyond Physical Goods, moderator Abed Agha, Founder and CEO of Vinelab, ...

COE CoE E-Commerce Digital Media

Meet the Bahraini Woman Serial Entrepreneur Who Runs Two Companies at Once

After a career working in corporate and government worlds, Doa'a Essa Abdul Wahab had decided 2010 would be the year she started her first...

Food & Beverage

Jordan

Reserving a Seat at the Table: Bashar Saleh of ReserveOut [Wamda TV]

Bashar Saleh, co-founder of ReserveOut.com, discusses how his company provides restaurant owners with an online web portal to facilitate...

f&b restaurants ReserveOut

Investing in E-Commerce: Part 5 [Wamda TV]

In the final segment of the second panel at our June event CoE E-Commerce, Show Me The Money, Part 2: Investing in E-Commerce, moderator...

CoE E-Commerce E-commerce Investment

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