Wamda

Egypt's Tourism Gets Back on Its Feet at Rouqayah's Ranch

You think you're driving into the middle of nowhere, then thoughts of classic horror plots jump to mind. But once you arrive through...

Egypt Environment Food & Beverage

MyMetroTalks Brings Community-Focused Venue Recommendations to Dubai

I was feeling pretty relaxed the other night, channel surfing on my own, but I felt like being outdoors without having to get all dressed...

Crowdsourcing Ratings Sites

Discover Digital Arabia Builds a Business with Infographics

Infographics and video imagery are clearly one of the hottest trends on the web, and Saudi-backed N2V is hardly one to...

Arabic Content Digital Media Infographic

How 3 Women Entrepreneurs are Creating Opportunities in Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan

We often hear that it's difficult for women entrepreneurs to found companies- they face social stigma as founders, or they have difficulty...

Egypt Social Entrepreneurship Women

Open Diversity Forum: The Next Stretch

On January 23, 2013, Shelter Dubai is hosting an Open Diversity Forum featuring the founders of The Next Stretch, a recreational and...

Conferences

Meet the 19-year-old Moroccan Entrepreneur Behind Casablanca's Yearly Geek Iftar

Technology and entrepreneurship-related events have really increased over the past 2 years in Morocco. Every major city has now its...

Technology Workshops

Egypt's Revolutionaries Take to the Streets, To Improve Neighborhoods

“Change starts in the streets," was a slogan coined during the Egyptian revolution, as demonstrators took pride in cleaning the streets i...

Egypt Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

Could an Egyptian Crowdsourced Review Site Be the Next Big Middle East Success Story?

I may have seen the "next big thing," i.e. the next startup with the potential to be a Twitter or an Instagram. To be regionally precise I...

Egypt Invention Ratings Sites

How Unfair Competition Caused an Egyptian Startup to Fail

Sometimes a lack of money is the reason behind the failure of a certain project; other times a moment of cultural disconnect might be a...

Egypt Failure

Wellnesia to Indulge Dubai with New Spa and Beauty Hub

In the Arab world, the web has been buzzing lately with sites offering flash sales, low prices and online booking, often for restaurants,...

Digital Marketing Ecosystem Health & Beauty

Music Marketing Platform Helps Artists Go Viral in the Arab World

Today, viral YouTube videos propel artists to fame overnight, creating a completely new set of rules for music promotion. This is where the...

Entertainment Music Social Media

Entrepreneur of the Week: Mansour Mansour Co-founder of Javna in Jordan [Wamda TV]

Entrepreneur of the week today on Wamda is Mansour Mansour, an Endeavor Jordan entrepreneur, CEO of Javna in Jordan offering mobile media...

Advertising Digital Advertising Digital Media

Mallna Makes Arab E-Commerce More Social, Adds Gamification

While only 43% of internet users in the Middle East and North Africa have shopped online, according to research by OneCard, Jordanian site...

E-commerce Social Media

KnowElectricity Teaches Pakistan About Energy Efficiency: Can It Become a Sustainable Business?

Scores of Pakistanis are curious about the potential for solar and wind energy to cut costs in a country where continuous power is at a...

Digital Media Environment Green Energy

Engagio Makes Online Conversations More Manageable

Launched just this year, Engagio enables users to organize and manage their online interactions through a simple platform...

Social Media Social Networks

Founder of Daily Deals Site Hmizate Launches Online Marketplace Hmall

The e-commerce sector in Morocco has truly boomed in the last 2 years. We've seen a particularly large influx of e-commerce sites,...

morocco Cloning Daily Deals

8 Tips for Building a Wildly Successful Arabic Website

After Arabic women's portal Nawa3em grew to one million monthly unique visitors during its first year, its CEO Rodolph Jabr...

Arabic Content Digital Media Team

Lebanon's Myschoolpulse Brings Education to Children in Hospitals

Not every startup idea begins with a happy epiphany. Daniele Diab was first inspired to start Myschoolpulse when her cousin was...

Education Medical

Wamli Launches Quirky New E-Commerce Platform in Dubai

Wamli, a funky new e-commerce platform for geeks and those looking for an unorthodox shopping experience, launched today in Dubai. The...

E-commerce Fashion Loyalty Programs

Entej Works to Connect Egypt's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

What do you do when you come up with a great project idea? Of course, you start looking for partners and team members, probably through...

Ecosystem Egypt Job Recruitment

Launching the First Arabic Platform for Expert Electronics Reviews in Egypt [Wamda TV]

At Reviewzat’s website launch event, Managing Director Karim Akram discusses how the startups plans to offer both video and written reviews ...

Reviews

Arabic Cooking Community Shahiya Expands into English, Considers Tablet App

Fresh off of a round of Series A investment from MEVP, Shahiya is looking into new growth models as it continues to tackle the...

Arabic Content Food & Beverage Mobile

Entrepreneur of the Week: Taline Assi Co-founder of Mosaic Marble [Wamda TV]

Entrepreneur of the week today on Wamda is Taline Assi, who co-founded along with her husband Mosaic Marble in 2003, an online and offline...

E-commerce Entrepreneur of the Week

DoctorUna Helps Dubai Find and Book Trusted Physicians

I vividly remember the first time I fell sick when I moved away for college. It was just a seasonal cold, but it felt like death,...

Medical

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