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Entrepreneur of the Week: Yasmine El-Mehairy of Online Parenting Community SuperMama

Yasmine El-Mehairy, speaking from her new office in a co-working space, shares behind-the-scenes details on the process of building...

Entrepreneur of the Week MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Women

Announcing Wamda's Entrepreneur of the Week Series

Today we are launching a new video series on Wamda: Entrepreneur of the Week. Each Tuesday, we'll be posting an interview with startup ...

Entrepreneur of the Week

Beware of Praise [Pic of the Week]

Fadi Ghandour said it. Arif Naqvi said it. A previous entrepreneur turned VC and blogger told his story. And maybe Chuck D said it best:...

CoE Cards Pic of the Week

Launching a Cartoon Series Focused on Bedouin Culture: Part 1 [Wamda TV]

As we get geared up for CoE E-Commerce, happening on June 3rd in Amman, we're releasing more from the archives of September's CoE Animate...

Animation Arabic Content CoE Animate

The Rise of Arabic on the Web [Infographic]

It took 30 years for 2 billion people to come online, but 1 billion more will come online in the next 4 years, according to...

Arabic Content

Shaping the Entrepreneurial Future of Egypt

The 2012 AUC Research Conference, held this past week at the university's New Cairo campus, was an exercise in uniting Egypt's...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

The Effect of Social Media on Government and Mainstream Sources: Yousef Tuqan of Flip Media [Wamda TV]

Yousef Tuqan of Flip Media, which was recently acquired by Publicis Groupe, chats with us at the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan...

Digital Media MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Social Media

How KAUST Entrepreneurship Center Works to Incubate Startups in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

Ahmed Abdulwahab, Manager of the the KAUST Entrepreneurship Center, explains what the newly-launched center and seed fund is doing to...

Accelerators Ecosystem MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

4 Reasons Why Smart Businesses Go Green

So green is now a trend in the Middle East – even though it’s still to catch on in Saudi Arabia. It's also a term that's been going ar...

Green Energy

KarmSolar: A Solar Energy Solution for Pumping Water in Egypt [Wamda TV]

Ahmed Zahran and Yumna Madi of KarmSolar, which won second place in an elevator pitching round at the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business...

Green Energy MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition MIT

How to Create Banner Awareness (Or Bypass Blindness)

User-friendly design guru Jakob Nielsen held out a finding in one of his studies for 10 years, but finally finally to publish it in 2007....

User Experience Design

Acadox: An Arabic Learning Management Platform for University Students [Wamda TV]

At the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition Workshop in Abu Dhabi, Mustafa Nabulsi of KAUST-incubated startup Acadox, a ...

Competitions Education MIT

Building a Learning Management System in Saudi Arabia: Acadox

During our undergraduate studies in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) we, Mohammad Al-Hareeqi, and Nedal Mourad, and...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Accelerators MIT

Journey to Amman Part 2: Impressions of Jordan's Tech Startups

When I visited Oasis500 on my recent trip to Jordan, I had the opportunity to meet with 14 startups incubated there, for around 15-20...

Ecosystem Oasis500 Startup Communities

Journey to Amman: 5 Tips from Startups in the Arab World's Tech Capital

At the end of last month, Fadi Ghandour talked about the 8 different steps Jordan took to create an enabling environment for tech...

Accelerators Ecosystem Oasis500

James Nakagawa of Mobile Healthcare: 'Entrepreneurship Is about Sacrifice'

James Nakagawa never studied medicine, and until 2003, he headed a company that helped financial firms deliver online trading services. But...

Health

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