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The 100 Most Influential Arabs on Twitter

Twitter is one of the hottest social networks around, a place where you go to engage with thought leaders, top officials...

Zajil Announces Winners of Startup Competition

Similar to Wamda's recent Best MENA Startups of 2011 competition, entrepreneurship and tech news site Zajil.me launched a competition for ...

Arabic Stock Photography Portal Gallery AlSharq Goes Live

Like many entrepreneurs, Riham Mahafzah first dreamed up an idea for a specialized online image gallery three to four years ago." But it...

What Turkey Could Learn from the Arab Spring

Turkey may believe that it has a leading role in the transformed Middle East. Yet it would be wise to consider the lessons of the Arab...

Why Bother with Building a Site Map?

Building a house cannot be done without a proper plan and a structure. The same applies to websites. Site maps are a visual representation...

User Experience Design

Behind the Anti-Conference: A Case Study of the Celebration of Entrepreneurship 2010

Curious what went into creating one of the biggest, most unconventional entrepreneurship events the region has seen? Abraaj has released a ...

How Can the Diaspora Boost ICT Development in the Arab World?

In early January 2011, startup accelerator Plug and Play Egypt kicked off its first cycle with investment in six startups. Yet after ...

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...

Announcing the new Wamda: A 360 degree approach to supporting entrepreneurship in MENA

In November 2010, the region witnessed the Celebration of Entrepreneurship (CoE), one of the most comprehensive entrepreneurship events to...

Five Must-Haves for Igniting e-Commerce in the Arab World

On the backs of several successful e-Commerce companies, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are launching online businesses. However,...

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...

Mobile Apps

Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Graduates First Cycle of Tech Startups

Egypt’s newest seed stage accelerator, Flat6Labs, has graduated its first group of startups, culminating in a Demo Day at their Cairo c...

Accelerators Flat6Labs

Google Science Fair 2012 Opens to Arab Students

Science students looking to answer burning questions about the nature of existence now have Google’s help. On January 12th, Google launched ...

8 Tips on How to Approach Getting Investment

As an entrepreneur you are going to face the experience of sitting down with investors. The experience might be quite overwhelming and...

Getting the Arab Youth into Employment

Throughout 2011, youth from across the Arab world have occupied streets, squares and other public places to protest a lack of inclusion, a...

Full List - Final Results of the Best MENA Startups of 2011

Due to popular request, we are now posting the full final results of the Best MENA Startups of 2011 poll, by percentage. More than 20...

China's Haxlr8r Accelerates Hardware Startups; Wamda to Connect Arab Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs who have been looking to manufacture hardware cheaply in China now have better access to infrastructure, with the launch of...

Girls Take the Lead as Sherkitna Trains Public High Students in Entrepreneurship

A new initiative is launching in Jordan to help public high school students develop entrepreneurship skills during the school...

Review Site Jeeran Launches Arabic iPhone App with Geolocation

Online local review site Jeeran is now solving one of the biggest issues facing consumers in many Arab cities: easily contacting local...

Endeavor

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...

Digital Photobooth FishFayce Launches in Kuwait

When digital photobooth FishFayce came to the Celebration of Entrepreneurship (CoE) last year to capture photos of investors,...

Volunteer Platform Nakhweh Launches Campaign to Promote Social Change in Jordan

Aspiring social entrepreneurs in Jordan now have another reason to push their ideas out the door. Nonprofit Nakhweh, which promotes...

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...

Fashion

How to Turn User Research into Good Design with Storyboarding

After following my latest two posts about user research in user experience design, you now have research results, but most likely you’d l...

User Experience Design

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