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Kitab Sawti raises $6 million in Series A

Regional

Kitab Sawti raises $6 million in Series A

Sweden-based Kitab Sawti, the world’s largest Arabic audiobook platform, has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round from...

audio books arabic

How this Saudi female entrepreneur is driving forth book culture

Saudi Arabia

How this Saudi female entrepreneur is driving forth book culture

The average Arab citizen reads approximately 35 hours and 17 books every year. Research showed that on average, an Arab reads 11 books in...

Saudi Arabia Dhad Manar Saud Alomayri

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

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...

culture yallaread collaborative consumption

Many challenges still facing Egypt’s startups

Egypt

Many challenges still facing Egypt’s startups

Startology cofounders from L to R: Ayman Saeed, Mahinaz El-Aasser, and Mahmoud Wasfy. Egypt's startup ecosystem...

Global Entrepreneurship Index Entrepreneurship in Egypt From Revolution To Evolution Startology

Disrupt!/Books!/ 2015 Amman

Regional

Disrupt!/Books!/ 2015 Amman

Hivos, in collaboration with ProjectPen, is organizing a competition for startups in the book industry, entitled Disrupt!/Books!/. The...

amman disrupt books

BuBleik's Book Club: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Regional

BuBleik's Book Club: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

BuBleik is a platform that provides the basic business services to quickly and easily start doing business in Lebanon. It recently started...

Lebanese youth benefit from Zoomaal funding

Lebanon

Lebanese youth benefit from Zoomaal funding

Shhhhhhhhhh. It seems that the determination of youth in the Lebanese city of Tripoli is steadfast in the face of political and security...

Tripoli books Youth

Abjjad exceeded its goal on Eureeca by 30%; what's next for the Arabic reading social network?

Abjjad exceeded its goal on Eureeca by 30%; what's next for the Arabic reading social network?

A few days ago, Abjjad became the first Arab cultural website to exceed its crowdinvestment target amount on Eureeca, the first ...

Jordan books reading

One woman's quest to get kids reading in the Arab world

One woman's quest to get kids reading in the Arab world

Very few initiatives originating in the Arab world achieve international recognition: Kitaby Kitabak (my book, your book in English), a...

libraries library reading

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