Lebanese Wharton Students Create a New Way to Connect with Friends Ever wonder where the biggest on campus party is happening, or what is the hottest spot your friends are going to? If you are a person who... Souhail Khoury • 23 December, 2011
eCloset Launches Online Competition Showcasing Jordanian Fashion Designers Jordanian startup eCloset.me, a website for mixing and matching clothes and sharing them with your friends, has launched a new fashion... Nina Curley • 10 January, 2012 Fashion
How Saudi Platform GameTako Will Transform Arab World Gaming in 2012 Gaming may be the hottest sector in Arab World e-commerce and a $2.6 billion market in the Middle East and North Africa, but one Saudi... Nina Curley • 28 December, 2011
Gradberry Offers Small Businesses Access to Fresh College Graduates in the Middle East With Bayt.com’s recent survey on job perceptions revealing that most college grads in the Arab World prefer to pursue government and civil s... Said Hamideh • 04 January, 2012
Lessons from Zynga: How Identified is Using Game Mechanics to Become the LinkedIn of Facebook After Zynga’s $10 billion IPO, it’s clear that adding game mechanics to a vast social network is a recipe for success. Yet the recipe isn’t ... Nina Curley • 28 December, 2011 LinkedIn
Sleek Site Design Hub Launches to Showcase MENA Freelancers Design freelancing in the Middle East just got easier with the public beta launch of Design Hub this past week. Simplicity rules the day on... Nina Curley • 07 December, 2011
Tired of Political News ADD? Just-Launched Egyptian Mobile App Brings You Smart Aggregation With all that’s going on in Egypt, staying on top of political developments can be all-consuming. When grazing on today’s media buffet, it’... Nina Curley • 08 December, 2011 Mobile Apps
N2V Supports Online Arabic Content for Women with Investment in Mjalati N2V has stepped up its support for online Arabic content for women, announcing investment in Mjalati, a site that creates online... Nina Curley • 23 November, 2011 Women Arabic Content
Marketing Advice that Packs a Punch, from a Successful Dubai Gym Owner Framed in dark black and yellow, the sign reads: “Shut up and Squat”. That is probably one of the nicer statements on the wall of the gym at... Nafez Dakkak • 23 November, 2011
Laimoon Puts a Fresh Twist on Job Recruitment in the Middle East It's never easy admitting that you were wrong. To have to admit that you were completely and utterly amiss might make your insides churn... Khaled AlSaleh • 22 November, 2011
Intern at a Lebanese Startup Creates the Coolest Music App You'll Download this Year If you’re tired of hoping a free streaming radio app will make it to the Middle East, the wait is over. You can thank Rony Fadel, a 2... Nina Curley • 14 November, 2011
Arabic Type Enters the Modern Era at Kashida Design In the wake of revolutions this spring and summer, discourse about modern identity in the Arab World seems to have translated into a... Nina Curley • 03 November, 2011
How the Amazon of the Arab World Gains Consumer Trust [Wamda TV] Ala'a AlSallal of Jamalon, the Amazon of the Arab World, discusses at the World Economic Forum how he found a gap in the market for online... Nina Curley • 31 October, 2011
5 Tips for Turning Failure into Success Failure is terrible. It’s a word we often associate with losing. And yet, when I failed, my so-called failure led to my working for an e... Khaled AlSaleh • 12 October, 2011
The Benefits of Moving Back into the Region In 2004, Tunisian entrepreneur Dhafer Berrachid started Axe Finance to deliver consulting services to European banks. By 2007, however, he... Alia Mahmoud • 12 October, 2011
Growing One Step at a Time: One’s Pastries If you pull up to their humble stand on a given day, One’s Lebanese Pastry shop won’t offer you a chair; it’s take away and delivery only. ... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
Serving up Social Change with SMS at Souktel As youth continue to catalyze reform in the Middle East and North Africa, the mantra of the moment isn’t just “go home” to those who r... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
NETpeas Makes IT Security a Moroccan Export As arrests of members from hacker group Anonymous make the news around the world, following high-profile breaches of Sony and Bank of... Nina Curley • 10 July, 2011
Brokering a New Deal with Old Media at Istikana Imagine a nostalgic version of Hulu. Not just boasting the latest sitcoms, but filled with your favorite classic TV shows. In Arabic. And... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
Making App Development in Jordan Even Simpler As information and communication technology development booms in Jordan, thanks in part to a growing support network of accelerators and... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
Motion for Social Awareness at Syria's Ox Animation Words by Nina CurleyIn a nascent animation industry, Syrian company Ox Animation stands out as a successful pioneer. Formed from the shared... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
Social Media for a New Arab World at Alamjadid.com With social media use booming in Arab World in the wake of spring protests, it comes as no surprise that Morocco’s first social network is o... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
searchinMENA.com: Bringing Businesses Online A passerby eyeing jewelry in a Damascus souq doesn’t need statistics on the dearth of Arabic web content to realize that the majority of s... Wamda • 06 September, 2011
iSpicePhoto's Bid to Transform Facebook With Apple predicted to report first quarter sales of a record 8.5 million iPads next week, Lebanese startup iSpicePhotos’s focus on an i... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011