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Can a Hackerspace in Beirut Spread Do-ocracy? A Look at Lamba Labs

“I reject thinking like that,” Bilal Ghalib said to me when I first met him. I had just arrived in Beirut and was visiting Lamba Lab...

Art Coworking Spaces Crowdfunding

Video-on-Demand Portal Istikana Announces Deal with Umniah in Jordan

Istikana, one of the region’s major video-on-demand portals, has just announced a partnership with Jordanian telecom company Umniah. Inked t...

Digital Marketing Mobile Video On Demand

Oasis500 Launches New Investment Track for Growing Companies

Oasis500, the region’s biggest startup accelerator, is now targeting growth stage companies with a new investment vehicle. Oasis500 is k...

Accelerators Investment

5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance

Whenever I hear people in the Arab region complain about the traffic, I tend to laugh. With the exception of Cairo, which has been bestowed...

Advice Crowdsourcing Government

Mobile Apps Win the Day at the Second Startup Weekend Nablus

Mobile seemed to be the theme of last month's Startup Weekend Nablus, evidenced by the top five startup teams selected by the panel of...

Conferences Mobile Mobile Apps

Useful Applications for Bloggers and Online Activists in the Arab World

Today, our internet is built upon constructive sharing; users are no longer acting as passive receivers, but rather are actively...

Advice Arabic Content Mobile

SeedStartup Takes Applications for its Third Round: Deadline Feb 15th

Tech startups around the globe have two more weeks to apply to the next round at Dubai-based accelerator SeedStartup. The tech-focused...

Accelerators

9 Ways to Increase your Chances at Getting a Job

As the demands of the job market become more and more specialized, it's becoming harder to get a job. Unemployment on the whole in the...

Advice Programme Job Recruitment

Mobile App Nabd Offers Personalized News in Arabic

With the abundance of news websites and a constant stream of article and video shares coming various social networks, online users can...

Arabic Content Digital Advertising Digital Media

Weekly Wrap-Up: January 27-31

We focused this week on the importance of building a founding team in leading your startup to success. Are you looking for the right...

Weekly Wrap-Up

Look for Co-Entrepreneurs that Will Complement Your Skillset [Pic of the Week]

"Without talented employees I’ll never make it." I hear this sentiment expressed often by new entrepreneurs struggling to build their s...

Advice CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Exclusive Sneak Peek at the Middle East’s Newest Crowdfunding Platform: Zoomaal

For entrepreneurs in the Middle East seeking investment, a new platform is launching in February to offer crowdfunding for creative...

Crowdfunding Investment

10 Tips of the Month from Entrepreneurs on Wamda

As they revealed their successes, challenges, and failures, the entrepreneurs we chatted with on Wamda this month had great advice for...

Advice Tips Top Lists

Mideast Tunes, the Indie MySpace of the Middle East, Announces Partnership with Shazam

In 2010, when MySpace-style music platforms were just launching in the Middle East, opinionated blogger Ahmad Al-Shagra took a stand,...

Digital Marketing Mobile Music

How the Middle East Can Reclaim its Creative Work Culture

“8-5 shifts”, “lunch breaks”, “weekends”, and “vacations” are part of the not-so-wonderful jargon we have inherited from the Industrial Revo...

Advice Ecosystem Education

Tutorial Platform Facebook Studio Edge Launches in Dubai

After unveiling the platform last spring, Facebook today announced the Dubai launch of Facebook Studio Edge, a tutorial platform designed...

Facebook Marketing Social Media

11 Lessons I Learned After 4 Years at Wizards Productions

As we mentioned recently, Jordan is seeing a slew of gaming companies close lately, Wizards Productions among them. Co-founder and...

Top Lists Tips Advice

Sallaty Brings Online Grocery Shopping to Jordan

When Samia Jarrar first met her husband, she had no idea that she would end up starting a company with him. But in 2011, six years after...

Delivery E-commerce Food & Beverage

Twitter Finally Expands Ad Products To The Arab World. Is It Preparing for an IPO?

Startups in the Middle East now have a new ad channel on the world’s favorite micro-blogging platform. In an event in Dubai yesterday, T...

Digital Advertising Digital Marketing Expansion

Business Leaders Place Confidence in the Middle East Tech Sector [Report]

Business leaders in the Middle East and North Africa showed the largest increase in confidence in the technology sector in 2012,...

Ecosystem Infographic

10 Tips for Moroccan Entrepreneurs from a Maroc Web Awards Co-Founder

In Morocco, the Maroc Web Awards (MWA) have become the event to look to in the web and mobile space- our LeWeb, if you will, bringing...

Advice Conferences Ecosystem

Mahatat Initiative Promotes Egypt’s Contemporary Art Scene

Since the 2011 revolution, Egyptian society has been transforming demographically, culturally, and politcally, inspiring several new...

Art Egypt Women

Lebanese Entrepreneur Launches Data-Driven Career Matching Site

Between newcomers like Nabbesh, tasmeemME, Laimoon, and Wuzzuf, and veterans like Bayt and GulfTalent, the Middle East has its fill of job...

Data Programme

Is Streaming Music a Viable Model in the Arab World? A Look at the Future of the Music Industry [Wamda Debates]

This post is the first in a new content series called Wamda Debates. Every other week, the Wamda team debates a topic, industry, or...

Mobile Mobile Apps Music

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