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Mobile app generator wins the day at Startup Weekend Amman

Hoards of aspiring entrepreneurs gathered at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Building in Amman this past weekend for Startup Weekend – a 5...

Green projects take the day at the Dubai+Acumen competition

“People believe that innovation thrives in every other part of the world… but it also exists here, and we want to be a platform to support ...

Acumen+Dubai Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

Egyptian startup Funwave bets on social gaming

“We believe that social gaming is the future of electronic games. Game genres no longer matter; what really matters is that the game is s...

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Lebanon's Re-H2O team tackles water scarcity in the Arab world

At Intel and Injaz al-Arab's Sci-preneurship Innovation Camp this past July, six young Lebanese students found an innovative, inexpensive...

Intel Injaz al Arab competition

Arabic weather portal outshines Yahoo in Jordan, reigns in Saudi Arabia

ArabiaWeather.com is not the company that it was even just nine months ago. Since its early days as JordanWeather.jo, the company been a...

ArabiaWeather

Can this Bahraini couple's startup help fight childhood obesity in the Gulf?

Yoga, Team Awesome, Muay Thai, Zumba, and Parkour all sound like classes you can take at a gym that combines fun with fitness. This is...

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Iranian developers gamify a 1,000 year-old poem

The story of how Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh first met Hossein Jalali, his partner at their new startup, GameGuise, is “a MAKE Business ...

Gaming

3 lessons in startup culture from Beirut's sudden success, Jai Kitchen

This is the first in a series on the business of starting a food & beverage company in the Middle East. Check back periodically for...

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Startup Weekend Amman

Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share...

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Zee3 Enta provides a forum for expression for Egyptians of every persuasion

Egypt’s revolution, beginning January 25, 2011, revolutionized citizen journalism. Since then, several initiatives have launched that seek ...

Citizen Journalism Egypt

Egyptian pharmacist creates Dawaa, a digital pharmaceutical drug index

Designed to bridge the gap between the conventional hard copy drug reference manual and the digital lives of today's physicians, Dawaa is...

Healthcare Health Mobile

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Egyptian job site Wuzzuf joins 500 Startups' acceleration program

Wuzzuf, an Egyptian recruiting site launched in 2012 by BasharSoft, was on the verge of closing down two years ago. However...

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Can Dubai franchise Mandilicious be the next Just Falafel?

Some say that in the Middle Ages, the earliest franchises were born when political leaders began to designate privileges to citizens,...

Team building Franchising Tips

Egyptian surgeon turns his passion for driftwood into a business

“My passion for wood is something I’ve had for as long as I can remember, and I’ve been making small projects since I was seven,” says Shah...

Hardware Handicrafts Egypt

Enigma announces $4.5 million USD Series A investment round

It seems like nothing can stop Moroccan entrepreneur Hicham Oudghiri and his big data startup Enigma. After getting tweeted by...

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PACEIM offers French-style incubation to North African and Lebanese entrepreneurs

Here’s an initiative that should interest the many North Africans and Lebanese who are studying at or have graduated from a French u...

As tourism plummets, Bazaar in Egypt brings traditional handicrafts to the US

Back when Western tourists went to Egypt, typical souvenirs bought from street vendors – ankhs, hieroglyphs, mini Sphinx figurines, etc. – ...

Bazaar in Egypt Egypt E-commerce

Can a young woman entrepreneur succeed in Morocco with a new online medical appointment service?

Finding the right doctor and booking an upcoming appointment is a complex task, especially in Morocco, where public-sector doctors don’t t...

Health

Startup news ticker: Rwaq launches Ambassadors Program; now open for students’ applications

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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Here's what Morocco-based video advertising agency Buzzeff learned when opening a Dubai office

Every three weeks, Casablanca-based Jérôme Mouthon makes the seven-hour flight to Dubai to work for one week at his company’s Dubai off...

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How HTML5 will change gaming in the Arab world

Browser games are resurging thanks to HTML5. This fifth version of the revolutionary markup language supports the latest multimedia and...

html5 Gaming

An Emirates-developed screenshot sharing app makes a flashing success

Smartphone users are becoming increasingly addicted to sharing screenshots from their mobile devices, as opposed to links that require...

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Two successful Saudi game developers eye the international market

“We felt like aliens,” says Bandar Al Mashari, on how he and his friend Sultan Al Sharif related to the mobile gaming industry four years a...

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Startup news ticker: Arabic video tutorial platform launches in Egypt

Welcome to Wamda's weekly startup news ticker, which will offer quick announcements and stories relevant to the region. If you have a quick...

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