Jordan's Travel Sheikh Turns Offline Agency into an Online Opportunity The newest flight and hotel booking on the block, Travel Sheikh, is set to lead the travel e-commerce space. Not just because it's the... Nina Curley • 08 March, 2012 E-commerce
Getting Rid of Used Items in the Arab World? Swaphood Makes It Fun When Zaid Jawad built Swaphood in Dubai last October, he had been looking for a site where he could post items to sell or trade, where... Nina Curley • 01 March, 2012
African Startup Launches SMS Marketing Platform For Businesses Three months ago, African entrepreneur Natalino Mwenda launched Rasello, the first platform allowing African small businesses to... Maya Rahal • 26 February, 2012 Mobile Marketing SMS
New Collective Workspace MAKE Launches in Dubai Leith Mathews came to Dubai in 2007 to work in the emirate’s booming food & beverage industry. Having a genuine passion for the i... Nafez Dakkak • 21 February, 2012 Food & Beverage Startup Communities Coworking Spaces
Yahoo! Maktoob's New Geo-Located Events Concept Battuta Revealed at QITCOM Of the pitches that I saw today in the TechZone at QITCOM, Qatar's IT-dedicated conference, one that stood out was Yahoo's forward-thinking... Nina Curley • 05 March, 2012 Digital Media Mobile Mobile Apps
Pioneering a Gourmet All Natural Dessert Line in the UAE: Catwalk Cow When Samia Ataya first started dessert line Catwalk Cow two years ago in the United Arab Emirates, she had a vision of an ideal product... Maya Rahal • 20 February, 2012 Food & Beverage
Egyptian Location-Based Mobile App Nasy Increases Civil Society Engagement The Middle East has, undoubtedly, seen some changes in the past few months. One of the most noticeable changes is engagement with local... Embee • 14 February, 2012 Mobile Apps
DIA-style.com Launches First Fully Arabic Luxury e-Commerce Site DIA-style.com's launch yesterday marked a coup in luxury goods e-commerce. The site has launched not only as the exclusive portal for... Nina Curley • 09 February, 2012 E-commerce Fashion
Jordanian Fashion Site eCloset.me Announces Competition Winners Amman-based fashion website eCloset.me has revealed the winners of its mix-and-match fashion curation competition today. The competition,... Nina Curley • 10 February, 2012 Fashion
Surviving the Egyptian Revolution: Small Businesses One Year After #Jan25 Days after the one-year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, it’s now the Egyptian economy, not popular tolerance for dictatorship, that ... Nina Curley • 30 January, 2012
Building the WebMD of the Arab World in Jordan When Lebanon-born, Amman-raised entrepreneur Jalil Allabadi first decided to put his father’s Arabic medical dictionary online, he focused o... Nina Curley • 07 February, 2012 Medical Endeavor
Arabic e-Learning Portal Nibras.com Launches, Offering Online Business Education E-Learning portal Nibras.com launched in beta today, bringing online education to the Arab World with a series of short, accessible... Nina Curley • 08 February, 2012 Education
Egyptian Startup Ekshef Eases the Pain of Finding a Doctor In the heart of Cairo stands Ramsis Building, an imposing office-block whose four faces are covered in a jumble of signs for the dozens of... Omar Aysha • 03 February, 2012 Medical
Family Firms in the Middle East: The New Rules of Engagement When Shaker Group, a Saudi Arabia-based air conditioning supplier, lists 30% of its shares in an initial public offering (IPO) in Riyadh... Knowledge @Wharton • 10 February, 2012 Wharton
Women Entrepreneurs on the Rise in Egypt: How Heba Hosny Hopes to Fund Social Good As Egyptians stage a sit-in in Tahrir to honor the anniversary of the uprisings that eventually ousted Hosni Mubarak last year, one... Nina Curley • 25 January, 2012 Women
Egyptian e-Commerce Site books.com.eg Launches Social Bookstore On the anniversary of the first massive protest in Tahrir Square, Egyptian e-commerce company books.com.eg is making it easier for readers... Nina Curley • 25 January, 2012 E-commerce
How Women Entrepreneurs Are Driving Business in the Middle East Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud is an Arabian princess with an entrepreneurial streak. As president and CEO of ALFA International and AL HAMA... Knowledge @Wharton • 02 February, 2012 Women Wharton
How a Tunisian Software Company Built a Global Brand In my search for Tunisian success stories in entrepreneurship, I was told I must speak with Mr. Samy Achour, the President and Founder of... Alia Mahmoud • 29 January, 2012
Saudi E-Commerce Startup Finds Success Selling Apple Products Almost exactly a year ago, three young Saudi entrepreneurs started e-commerce website iPhady to sell only iPhones, iPads and their a... Maya Rahal • 31 January, 2012 E-commerce
6 Ways a User-Generated Recipe Site Became a Success in Saudi Arabia Sometimes becoming the biggest recipe website in Saudi Arabia is not enough. For the creators of Shahiya, an Arabic recipe portal, creating... Nina Curley • 17 January, 2012 Mobile Apps
How the Arab World "Amazon for Moms" is Proving the Value of E-Commerce Shortly after becoming a mom, Mona Ataya felt the frustration, confusion and challenges most moms and moms-to-be face while trying to... Maya Rahal • 24 January, 2012 Women E-commerce
Finding Ways to Survive: Young Call Center Pleas for Support for Tunisian Entrepreneurs In 2008 in Tunisia, things were looking up for university graduate Aymen Ouasli. Although the labor market was tight in his field, Fine... Maya Rahal • 19 January, 2012
BasharJobs Celebrates One Year of Transforming Job Recruitment in Egypt Online job recruitment in the Middle East is a hassle. Yet offline job recruitment is expensive. This conundrum has long frustrated... Nina Curley • 11 January, 2012
Digital Photobooth FishFayce Launches in Kuwait When digital photobooth FishFayce came to the Celebration of Entrepreneurship (CoE) last year to capture photos of investors,... Nina Curley • 11 January, 2012