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Egypt

Alex Agenda aims to develop Egypt’s media [Q&A]

Egypt’s media has dramatically shifted since the January 25 revolution four years ago. Citizen journalists spread through the streets and l...

Media training Alex Agenda alexandria

Maghreb

Power in numbers: Moroccan web entrepreneurs come together

At the launch of Maroc Digital at Avito’s offices. (Images via Othmane Ghailane) The Moroccan web community got together recently for ...

Le Maroc Digital morocco

Maghreb

Putting Tunisian honey on the map

Busy bees are honey bees. In July 2014 Khaled Bouchoucha quit his job as a fleet engineer manager at aeronautic company Sabena Technics to...

UniVenture Qatar Friendship Fund Honey

Maghreb

Moroccan automobile classifieds platform Moteur.ma announces Malaysian investment

Moteur.ma lets Moroccans buy cars online. Car classifieds website Moteur.ma announced late last week that they raised an investment via...

Moteur.ma car classifieds

Maghreb

Can Casablanca ban Uber?

Should we expect a taxi drivers strike soon? (Image via Ahmed Bousserhane) In a press release sent this morning, Uber says they’d like to “...

careem Uber morocco

Regional

Africa gets its first digital health accelerator

Ampion's cofounders Fabian-Carlos Guhl and Ifeanyi Oteh launch their new health-tech accelerator. (Image via Ampion) If there’s one c...

ehealth digital health care Ampion

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...

digitize textiles shahbander

Palestine

72-hour gamer comp tests Ramallah talent

Palestine has joined Game Zanga’s 72-hour design competition as game developers converged on Ramallah over the weekend to try and beat the c...

game competition game jam game zanga

U.A.E

To compare, or not to compare?

When Welshman Jon Richards started his price comparison site in the UAE in 2011, he quickly found a gap in the market. Finding that just...

Mulverhill Associates Bayzat.com Moneycamel.com

Regional

Aramex to implement crowdsourced courier model

The move will involve the community, and is designed to keep Aramex nimble. (Image via Aramex) The person who delivers your next Aramex...

aramex crowdshipping Fadi Ghandour

Regional

Know your competition... or else [Wamda Cartoon]

Competitors are just ninjas who don't use swords. One minute you think you're about to disrupt a whole sector, then BAM, someone else comes...

Humor competition Cartoon

Egypt

Building Egypt’s biogas market

Startups offering biogas or waste treatment solutions are slowly gearing up in the Middle East, but only Taqa Solutions had a reality...

Taqa Solutions Biogas MEMakers

Regional

4 tips for telematics startups in the Middle East

The first edition of the Telematics Conference Middle East & Africa in Dubai earlier this year gave UAE-based entrepreneurs the...

The Internet of Things Teltonika telematics

Lebanon

Beirut gets new tech accelerator, Speed@BDD

CEO Sami Abou Saab during a meeting at the Speed@BDD offices. (Images via Maya Rahal) Yesterday, a collection of Beirut’s entrepreneurial e...

Tech Accelerator Speed@BDD Beirut Digital District

Egypt

Printing money: Spear Ink’s e-waste ambitions

E-waste is a mushrooming scourge of the technology revolution with up to 50 million tons of electronic rubbish generated annually -...

printer cartridge spear ink MEMakers

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...

epayment Sirish Kumar Q&A

Saudi Arabia

Misreading Saudi entrepreneurship [Opinion]

When looking at it from the outside, Saudi Arabia’s entrepreneurship potential appears very different to the reality. There are arrogant m...

entrepreneurship Saudi Arabia Women

Maghreb

Who will be king of Morocco's real estate portals?

Samsar ads plastered around the city could be a thing of the past. (Image via Aline Mayard) If you want to understand Morocco’s d...

lamudi selektimmo mubaweb

Palestine

Palestinian startup RedCrow Intelligence analyzes security threats for business

Palestinians Hussein Nasser-Eddin and Laila Akel started their big data-crunching risk analysis company in September last year, having...

RedCrow Intelligence big data Security

Lebanon

The Chile Connection: lessons for Lebanese entrepreneurs

The Chileans in Beirut. (Image via BDD) For 17 years Chileans endured a right-wing military dictatorship that saw more than 3,000 people...

Chile communication world bank

Jordan

Arabic e-book startup Yaqut wins SeedStars Amman competition, advances to world finals

Yaqut's Ammar Mardawi (center) accepts the award for winner of Seedstars Amman. (Images via Samuel Wendel) Twelve Jordanian startups...

Ammar Mardawi Yaqut SeedStars International

Regional

Why we can’t give up on Arab diaspora engagement [Opinion]

Note: In this article, Middle East / Arab refers to the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine). Arab diasporas are a true mosaic....

Palestinian Diaspora Jordanian Diaspora Syrian Diaspora

Maghreb

How will technology change education in Algeria?

Crowded classrooms, teacher strikes - Algeria's education is not doing well. (Image via McIlwraith Education) Want a recipe for a perfect...

online education algeria EdTech

Egypt

Intel's INARA initiative to engage Egyptian youth

A group of attendees with Egypt’s former minister of communications and information technology, Atef Helmy. (Image via Intel) Amidst the f...

INARA Intel Innovation Hub edraak

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