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3 ways bitcoin can make a difference for entrepreneurs in the Arab world

Exchanging money for services with people outside the region is a special hassle for the Arab world. At best, entrepreneurs have to...

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4 successful entrepreneurs share how they met their cofounders

At Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, we got to play the role of nosy reporters, dragging five mentors away from their sessions and getting them to a...

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Rise Up Cairo kicks off with strong feelings about investment

AUC’s downtown campus is currently playing host to the Rise Up conference, a well-organized and attended celebration of entrepreneurship w...

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Meet the Arab entrepreneurs who competed at Istanbul's WebIt Congress

On the two first days of October, in Istanbul, Turkey, the 6th edition of the Eurasian tech event Webit Congress took place. A large...

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Lesson One: Mapping Education Technology Startups in the MENA

Education is a powerful tool. Those of us privileged enough to get a good education often forget that for the majority of people around...

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Smart phones in healthcare: Lessons drawn from the experience of Kuwaiti AbiDoc

With technology infiltrating pretty much every aspect of life, the intertwining of disciplines is the norm, in particular, in the health...

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A look into the startup specializations of Beirut, Dubai, and Amman

Different places do different industries differently – and over time they may come to be identified with the industries they do well. Los A...

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4 entrepreneurs share their most embarrassing professional moments [Wamda TV]

Late last month at Mix N’ Mentor Beirut, we got to play the role of nosy reporters, dragging five mentors away from their sessions and g...

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Sultan al-Qassemi on MIT Media Lab: imagination realized

When I was first invited to join the MIT Media Lab as a Director’s Fellow I took it at face value and assumed it was somehow connected to t...

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Californian launches gaming startup focused on Arab and Islamic history

Gaming is a far cry from finance and the military, but not only is American Thomas Tellner now creating games from his base in California,...

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Why is the Arab region attractive for expats? [Infographic]

The Middle East Internet Group (MEIG), a joint venture of Rocket Internet and MTN, released this week its latest infographic, depicting...

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Livestream StartupIstanbul 2014 here

StartupIstanbul is a networking event that hosts more than 1,000 attendees including founders, executives, entrepreneurs, and investors...

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The Middle Eastern startup blind spot: an obsession with money

This article was co-authored by Melltoo founders Sharene Lee and Morad Irsane “How do you make money?” is a question everyone asks about Mel...

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Dubai's listings site Melltoo on the hunt for investors

The world of classified ads has moved a long way from one having to trawl through the back sections of local newspapers looking for...

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7 coolest office spaces in the Arab world

For a few years now, famous American startups like Google and Foursquare have been using their office as a communication and marketing...

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Innovators Under 35 Pan Arab, nomination closes October 10th

The MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Region announced the Launch of the 2nd edition of "Innovators under 35 Pan Arab" with MIT Technology...

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The Future Agro Challenge Competition

Future Agro Challenge Competition is a gathering of the agri-business entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors that offers a unique...

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Rocket Internet car classifieds takes Saudi, Qatar, and the UAE in one big gulp

Over the years, the Samwer brothers’ Rocket Internet has made a name for itself; if not for its business model, for its aggressive (and b...

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New breed of payment gateways set to make Arab e-commerce accessible

In the midst of a particularly volatile time for the Middle East and North Africa, there’s at least one thing we can be sure of: more p...

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How do Arabic speakers use mobile apps? [Infographic]

Last time we checked in, Khaled Swilat’s startup App Mahal, a search engine for Arabic apps, had 40,000 downloads, 39,000 of...

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New fund to offer support for creative coworking spaces in the MENA

After working for several years on a global scale, international development organization Hivos is launching its first program to support...

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Not another social network: Doxunity wants to help doctors do their jobs better

Over the past few years, Wamda has covered a lot of medical startups that provide patients with information on different health topics,...

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RedTroops CEO: 'Getting users has been our biggest challenge' [Wamda Mix n' Mentor Competition]

Check out the video entry from Samer Tarazi of RedTroops for Wamda's Mix n' Mentor competition. The so-called eBay for in-app advertising, ...

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Sometimes going offline makes sense: the Yislamoo story

Update: As of September 29th, Yislamoo has reached its crowd investment goal on Eureeca. They have not only reached their...

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