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Lebanon

Rollin'pen finds its opportunity in optimizing Arabic content for the web

While Beirut has countless translators, one in particular is targeting businesses with an eye on corporate communication. “The idea i...

RollinPen lebanon Translation

Saudi Arabia

Saudis love of Twitter, an online marketers dream

This article has been cross-posted from Firnas.org Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in Saudi Arabia. While for some it is...

twitter Hype Saudi Arabia

Bahrain

Bahrain's answer to OpenTable announces $300,000 second investment round

Bahrain’s newest table reservation application, eatapp.co, has just announced a second funding round, totaling $300,000. The r...

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Palestine

Palestinian FOA Academy joins the fleet of ed-tech startups

According to the Broadband Commission for Digital Development more than half of the world’s population will have access to the internet b...

FOA Academy palestine EdTech

Lebanon

Career banker-turned-entrepreneur sees opportunity in Lebanon's banking sector

While financial tech is a fast growing sector globally, there is still room for growth in Lebanon. While many banks use...

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Regional

What do you learn after running a startup for two years?

Whether you have a success or failure story as an entrepreneur, lessons will always be learnt. After cofounding Cobone, one of the...

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Regional

To be an entrepreneur rid yourself of illusions

Ali Elouafiq has cofounded, with Ali Lakrakbi, iMote, a connected device that help localize one’s cellphone and keys. Now, about to start a...

illusions

Regional

The biggest opportunities for would-be founders in 2015

The best companies solve the biggest problems – the really hard ones that few people even know about, much less know how to tackle. T...

2015 startups new year

Maghreb

Back on the Ampion Venture Bus: 5 days across Tunisia

As part of its motorized adventures through Africa the Ampion Venture Bus made its way to North Africa. After having travelled through...

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Regional

From KSA to the Arab World: Hadafi funds and mentors female entrepreneurs

In a society where women are still economically marginalized and absent from the labor market, technology entrepreneurship is emerging...

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U.A.E

Carpool Arabia: Looking to ease the UAE’s traffic congestion woes

Not many entrepreneurs can claim that their brightest business idea was born on the road, but for Frenchman Benjamin de Terssac, that was...

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Maghreb

Where does Azur Systems' success come from?

Walid El Alaoui Mrani has always had a clear vision of what he wants to do. Once graduated from engineering school, the young Moroccan...

Event Planning Mentorship

Global

Meet Zilzar, the Islamic world's answer to Amazon

This article has been crossposted with Firnas.org Amazon and China’s Alibaba made ecommerce huge; now, it seems every other website is s...

islamic finance Zilzar

Lebanon

Lebanese entrepreneurs work to grow new talent in Tripoli

Recently, while walking up and down the stairways of heaven in one of the holiest places in Lebanon - The Qadisha Valley - I had the chance...

Tripoli lebanon Training

Maghreb

Morocco's Education Media Company raises $280,000 on the strength of an unusual story

The 9rayti team. Adam Bouhadma is only 24, and has just raised 2.5 million Moroccan dirhams ($280,000) for his company Education...

MNF Education Maroc Numeric Fund

Lebanon

Beirut+ TV: The first Lebanese animation channel

For husband and wife Toni Yammine and Maya Zankoul not a moment is wasted when it comes to expending their creativity energy. In 2013 they...

Wezank

Global

When it comes to entrepreneurs, the older the better?

"It's worth $10 a glass, trust me." Starting young does have advantages but it's not foolproof. Age. It’s something you don’t ask ladies of...

Age

Maghreb

Asma Mansour: Tunisia's social entrepreneurship pioneer

For some, entrepreneurship starts as an epiphany, and quickly becomes an addiction. Asma Mansour is one of them. The founder of the...

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Saudi Arabia

How one tweet inspired one man's mango selling website

This article was posted originally on Firnas.org. On April 27th 2012 Abdul Rahman Sahili read a tweet from a man in the coastal...

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Lebanon

Innovation fills the prescription: 6 tips on building a wearable from CardioDiagnostics

Most of the entrepreneurial activity in the region focuses on ecommerce or online services, and software development and services...

CardioDiagnostics Beirut Digital District Wearable devices

Egypt

5 startups to watch in Egypt's exciting agritech sector

Following last week's agritech overview, we profile five up-and-coming businesses from the startups seeking to revolutionize the way...

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Kuwait

Kuwait's myU shows promise in beta; can it scale?

Social networking is seen in many schools and colleges as a distraction best avoided for students aiming for the top grades. But for Bader...

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Qatar

Opportunity (and big bucks) knocks at Qatar's newest incubator

The trend towards entrepreneurship is so popular that it is now at a point of influencing economic policy. Not only is it stimulating the...

qatar Incubator

Lebanon

BDL Accelerate 2014’s first day: tips from the top

Lebanon’s central bank is keen to show its support for the startup and entrepreneurial community of Lebanon. Earlier this y...

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