Wamda

Tunisia

IntiGo raises over $300,000

Source: MENABytes Tunisian bike taxi startup IntiGo has raised over $300,000 in funding from angel investors, it...

Global

Sustainable style and the rise of circular fashion

When luxury fashion brand Burberry admitted to destroying more than $35 million worth of fashion and cosmetics products last year, there...

Sharing Economy Fashion

Egypt

In conversation with Mounir Nakhla of Egypt's Halan

Beyond Cairo’s colonial boulevards, the streets in the outskirts of the city tend to be too narrow for cars to pass through. These...

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Turkey

Volt Lines raises $1.28 million

Volt Lines, a Turkey-based transportation service has raised $1.28 million in a pre-Series A round led by Dubai Angel Investors (DAI) which...

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U.A.E

Unlock Blockchain Forum

Attend the first MENA-Asia UNLOCK Blockchain Forum on January 14-15, 2018 at the Ritz-Carlton in Dubai DIFC. The forum will discuss how...

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi’s crowdshipping platform wants to be in everyone’s luggage

Saudi Entrepreneur Khaled Sehly was a pharmacist before he quit his job to become an entrepreneur. In March 2017, Sehly launched...

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Regional

The opportunity of an inclusive sharing economy in MENA

It’s 9am. A commuter leaves home heading for her office in the local tech business hub. After 30 seconds a car has arrived to take...

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Egypt

Signed, sealed: deliveries get tech'd in Cairo

Personal transport is easily the most popular sharing economy business in Egypt, as Uber, Careem and Ousta compete hard for market share,...

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Jordan

Content Master: images of the people for the people

Content Master is taking a different tack to other image curators around the world, by being dedicated to serving the Middle East...

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U.A.E

What I know about building a sharing economy business: Debbie Wosskow

Debbie Wosskow comes from a family of entrepreneurs, particularly female entrepreneurs. She launched her first business at 25 followed by...

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Tunisia

Can Yallaread make peer-to-peer work in Tunisia?

The peer-to-peer sharing economy never really took off in MENA but some entrepreneurs, like Tunisian Ahmed Hadhri, still believe it’s...

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U.A.E

Fare share: Uber and Careem set pace and purpose for MENA’s sharing economy

Innovation and regulation can often have a paradoxical relationship. Modern tech history has consistently highlighted the tug of war...

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Regional

Sharing our way out of malaise: MENA and the sharing economy [Opinion]

A visual reprensentation of the concept that could transform the Middle East and North Africa. (Image via Meridian-180.org) In...

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Maghreb

Casablanca car share startup accelerates off the starting line

Carmine's cars now have their own parking spots. (Images via Carmine) It’s a safe bet that not many in Casablanca know what car sharing i...

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Global

4 trends from LeWeb that could make waves in the Arab world in 2015

The end of the year is always an interesting time. Some like to go back on what happened in the year gone by, while others try to predict...

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Maghreb

OuiShare Drink Beirut

OuiShare is organizing the first get-together for people interested in collaborative consumption, makers, fablabs, crowdfunding,...

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KarTag enters the Cairo carpooling market with a user-generated 'pure carpooling' model

Egypt suffers from an astonishing amount of automobile-related pollution, traffic, and parking problems. Egyptian entrepreneurs have...

Car Service Coworking Sharing Economy

4 issues the sharing economy could solve in the Arab world

Regional

Maghreb

Is the Arab World ready for a collaborative economy? This Syrian student says yes.

Would you be ready to carpool? Lend your house or your hammer to someone you don’t know? Give a few hours of your time to teach someone? C...

Sharing Economy Hacker Culture Crowdsourcing

Thought Leadership

IntiGo raises over $300,000

Sustainable style and the rise of circular fashion

In conversation with Mounir Nakhla of Egypt's Halan

Volt Lines raises $1.28 million

Unlock Blockchain Forum

Saudi’s crowdshipping platform wants to be in everyone’s luggage

The opportunity of an inclusive sharing economy in MENA

Signed, sealed: deliveries get tech'd in Cairo

Content Master: images of the people for the people

What I know about building a sharing economy business: Debbie Wosskow

Can Yallaread make peer-to-peer work in Tunisia?

Fare share: Uber and Careem set pace and purpose for MENA’s sharing economy

Sharing our way out of malaise: MENA and the sharing economy [Opinion]

Casablanca car share startup accelerates off the starting line

4 trends from LeWeb that could make waves in the Arab world in 2015

OuiShare Drink Beirut

KarTag enters the Cairo carpooling market with a user-generated 'pure carpooling' model

4 issues the sharing economy could solve in the Arab world

Algerian and Egyptian startups help travelers sell products from abroad; is this model scalable?

8 sharing economy services that could make it in the Arab world

Does the sharing economy break the law? What's different in the Arab world?

LeWeb says the sharing economy is going to change everything

7 French startups that are hot right now

Is the Arab World ready for a collaborative economy? This Syrian student says yes.

Thought Leadership

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