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How to Register a Branch of a Foreign Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

This series on registration and incorporation in Lebanon comes to Wamda courtesy of Michel Ghanem of Khalaf Law Firm and Lebanon Offshore, b...

Advice Legal

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 25-29

This week's posts were especially rich in legal advice whether it comes to setting up your business in Lebanon, or what it takes to boost...

Advice Angel Investment Arabic Content

Make your Mark for Future Generations [Pic of the Week]

Today and every Thursday is "Arabic Thursday" in the Wamda offices. All the team speaks only Arabic, in an attempt to encourage the use of...

Arabic Content

How to Register an Offshore Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

This series on registration and incoporation in Lebanon comes to Wamda courtesy of Michel Ghanem of Khalaf Law Firm and Lebanon Offshore, bo...

Legal Advice

Developing the Investment Industry in the Arab World: Guest Post from Middle East Venture Partners

This guest post is co-authored by Walid Hanna and Walid Mansour of Middle East Venture Partners, a Beirut-based Venture Capital...

Ecosystem Investment

Arabia500 Announces 130 of the Fastest Growing Companies in the Middle East

In anticipation of the Arabia500 gathering on December 10th at the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, the...

Conferences Ecosystem

Beirut Creative Cluster Works to Increase Collaboration Among Local Companies

One year ago, the Beirut Creative Cluster (BCC) was just an idea developed by Berytech. Today, the cluster is set to become a hub for...

Animation Conferences Design

How to Join Arabic Web Days and Post Arabic Content

Last week, Arabic Web Days launched as a new initiative to support Arabic content online, co-created between Yamli and Vinelab and suppo...

Arabic Content Digital Media Media

Incorporating a Limited Liability Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

This series on registration and incorporation in Lebanon comes to Wamda courtesy of Michel Ghanem of Khalaf Law Firm and Lebanon Of...

Legal Advice

How to Register a Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

To help companies launching or expanding into Lebanon understand how to register a company in the country, we are launching a legal series...

Legal Advice

Bahrain’s Majaal Makes Warehousing Startup Friendly

Speculating about the rise of tech companies is fun, but with e-commerce on the region on the rise, the seemingly mundane expansion of a...

E-commerce Expansion Innovation

Regional

Kids Love Arabic: A New Educational Arabic iOS Story Platform for Kids

Many parents, including myself, invest time and money trying to find an educational application for their children, to keep them from...

Arabic Content Education Mobile Apps

iFood's Mobile App Rises to the Top of the Food Delivery Pack in Jordan

Jordan has changed in a variety of ways since I lived there a year ago; perhaps a small win given the recent turmoil is that it’s become m...

Food & Beverage Mobile Mobile Apps

A Look at Social Media Consumption in the Arab World [Infographic]

Discover Digital Arabia (DDA), in partnership with EffectiveMeasure and supported by N2V, published yesterday its latest infographic on...

Infographic Social Media

Building a Game Review Site for the Arab World: A Look at DvLZGaME and Gamabox

Despite a huge increase in game production in the Middle East and North Africa over the last year, the region is still lacking a major,...

Arabic Content Gaming Mobile Gaming

Egypt's Bkam Boosts E-Commerce with Comparison Shopping Site and Mobile App

UPDATE: Bkam won 3rd place in the Vodafone Appstar competition today. With the explosion of e-commerce websites in the past year, it...

E-commerce

Can a Sharing Economy Take Root in the Middle East and Turkey? (Can AirBnB Clones Find Success?)

Increasingly competitive economic conditions and growing social concerns force us to search for new ways of living and connecting with one...

Scaling Crowdsourcing

How a 17-Year-Old Launched a Profitable Web Design Company in Lebanon

Andy Abi Haidar is not your average 17-year old. In addition to doing his daily homework, he runs his own award-winning web design ...

Design Developers

Jordan's Dakwak Launches Localization Platform to Help Startups Go Global

Dakwak has been in the making for over a year, but it has now finally launched its solution for helping websites localize or go global. For...

Arabic Content Scaling

Tenmou Gathers and Trains Arab and European Angel Investors in Bahrain

Tenmou, Bahrain's first business angels company, is quickly establishing itself as a leading player in Bahrain's entrepreneurship scene, as...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

Meet the Winners of the Harvard Arab Startup Pitch Contest

On November 8-11, the 6thHarvard Arab Weekend brought Arabs from around the world together to network, collaborate, and discuss the future o...

Conferences Competitions

European Game Developer Looks to Enter the Arab World, Seeks Publisher

As gaming studios worldwide eye the Arab market, German game developer and distributor GoodGame Studios is the latest to...

Developers Gaming

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 18-22

This week was all about looking outside to identify and adapt solutions to problems within local ecosystems. What are your thoughts about...

Advice CoE Cards Conferences

Look for International Perspectives [Pic of the Week]

It can be pretty easy to get caught up in the challenges and opportunities in your local surroundings, never taking a moment to look...

CoE Cards Ecosystem Pic of the Week

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