Luring Bill Payers to Go Green(dizer) For Moroccan e-billing platform Greendizer, sustainable development is simply business as usual. The startup pushes invoicing into the 21st... Nina Curley • 06 September, 2011
Designing a Creative Solution at TasmeemME As Jordan’s reputation as a hotbed for outsourced design work and an increasingly popular film location grows, it may have a certain A... Nina Curley • 08 September, 2011
Innovative Solutions for Environmental Problems In the world of waste water treatment, there are chemicals...and usually more chemicals. But when one innovative Jordanian company saw an... Wamda • 01 June, 2010
Quirkat Studios: Staying True to Arab Culture This is not just a story about electronic gaming. Nor is it about Quirkat, the Jordanian studio billed with creating the important strategy... Wamda • 15 January, 2010
Sweet Success at Long Last: Franchise Sugar Daddy's It hasn’t always been an easy ride for Fadi Jaber, founder of Sugar Daddy’s bakery. Despite its unique concept, the business aspect of run... Wamda • 27 July, 2010
Waterless Car Washing Franchise KeenWash How much water does it take to make a grimy car gleam? The answer might not be as much as you think, as thousands of Jordanians are now... Wamda • 01 May, 2010
Visualizing the World with Cairo's Trend Compass While the events of Tahrir Square have irrevocably opened the door for economic policy change in Egypt, the transition has, in the... Nina Curley • 10 April, 2011
Seriously Funny: Jordanian comedy portal Talasim Late last September, Talasim.com, took one of the six winning spots at the UK's Seedcamp, earning 50,000 Euros in funding. But as the... Wamda • 27 July, 2010
Global Religious readings get innovative This article is a crosspost with MIT Technology Review Arab Edition. It is quite common in religious circles to read Islam’s holy... MIT Technology Review • 30 June, 2016 Brandwise-apps Quran Khatma sawab
U.A.E PK on the core mission of The Assembly [Wamda TV] Prashant Gulati, more known as ‘PK’, calls himself a “technology innovator, angel investor, mentor, idea accelerator and... Maya Rahal • 14 June, 2016 Prashant Gulati PK MEMakersGE
Egypt Apply to the MoboMarket Developer Contest (MMDC) by Dec 31 The MoboMarket Developer Contest (MMDC) is now officially open in universities across Egypt. MMDC is a great opportunity for all developers... Wamda • 17 December, 2015 university students Mobomarket developer contest Egypt
Regional StartUp Maroc Championship StartUp Maroc Championship is a disruptive event designed to bring together new and experienced entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, ... Wamda • 16 October, 2015 championship startup maroc entrepreneurs
Egypt Shahbander weaves online network for Egyptian textile makers Less than a year after graduating from the AUC Venture Labs accelerator, Egyptian startup Shahbander is looking to take on the... Sara Aggour • 05 August, 2015 digitize textiles shahbander
Regional Telr helps small merchants make friends with big banks Sirish Kumar, during the Ecommerce Show 2015, at the Dubai International Exhibition and Conference Center The Middle East is at an... Maya Rahal • 30 July, 2015 epayment Sirish Kumar Q&A
Turkey The long hard road that earned $589 million A happy Nevzat Aydin in his Istanbul offices. (Image via Yemeksepeti) When Nevzat Aydin told his parents that he was returning to Turkey... Lucy Knight • 31 May, 2015 mergers & acquisitions online food delivery yemeksepeti
Maghreb Women SenseTour: 5 months, 5 countries, 25 changemakers Sarah Zouak, 25, talks about her project, the Women SenseTour in Muslim Countries, with an air of normalcy. However, the tour... Eric Reidy • 05 January, 2015 turkey iran morocco
Regional Startup-corporate partnerships 3/3: 6 success stories Announcing the ShopGo deal In our series on startup-corporate partnerships we've looked at the logic behind the relationships, and why... Ahmed Mohammed • 04 January, 2015 corporations startups CER
Regional 4 promising pivots by MENA startups in 2014 Loay Malahmeh of 3Dmena presents his company to King Hussein and Queen Rania of Jordan. In 1892, William Wrigley Jr., who had recently... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 17 December, 2014 Pivot Lean Methodology
Building a Strong Brand In an Emirati Cartoon: Mohammad Harib of Freej Mohammad Harib, the founder of Lammtara Pictures, describes his tough journey launching the first 3D animated series in the Arab World in ... Wamda • 11 January, 2012
i3zif co-founder shares advice on online branding and expansion [Wamda Mix n' Mentor Competition] Check out Bisher Abu Taleb, co-founder of Jordanian online Arabic music school i3zif, discuss the successes and challenges facing his... Wamda • 12 August, 2014 I3zif Jordan
Product placement 2.0: this app lets you buy what you see on TV Like Saphon Energy, Disrupt CK could well be the success story Tunisia has been waiting for. Like Saphon, a wind energy... Aline Mayard • 20 July, 2014 tunisia
How one Saudi woman entrepreneur found success through Instagram [Wamda TV] When 26 year old Sarah Al Dabbagh graduated with a degree in early childhood education from Simmons College in Boston she returned to... Zeina Tabbara • 31 October, 2013 Event Planning instagram
Palestinian entrepreneur looks to use Xbox Kinect for classroom education [Arabic] Inspired by the Xbox Kinect, a motion sensor by Microsoft developed for the Xbox 360 and redesigned for the upcoming Xbox 1,... Mariam Hamed • 14 October, 2013 palestine Gamification
Meet Golden Bird, Gaza’s event organizing company [Arabic] After offering their services to the private and public sector, three founders noticed that there’s a problem with the event ma... Mariam Hamed • 22 October, 2013 events palestine