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Eureeca webinar on future financial crisis

Eureeca is organizing a webinar on strategies to anticipate a possible future economic and financial crisis similar to the 2008 financial...

Sam Quawasmi eureeca

U.A.E

Coding for kids classes from the Coding Circle in Dubai

Tech education company The Coding Circle has opened registrations for a new beginners’ course and for the first module of an intermediate c...

Coding for Kids Coding Circle

Lebanon

Accelerator insights from the UK Lebanon Tech Hub

The UK Lebanon Tech Hub, which started earlier this year, announced the start of its International Accelerator activities in...

Tech Accelerator UK Lebanon Tech Hub accelerator

Maghreb

Mauritania enters the startup game

Mauritania's flag flies high. (Image via Xinhuanet.com) Mauritania's tech and startup scene started late but is growing, due to the hard...

Startup Mauritania

Watch the Livestream of Flat6Labs' 4th Demo Day

Curious about the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to the Livestream from their Demo Day,...

Accelerators Angel Investment Flat6Labs

Watch the Livestream of Flat6Labs Spring Demo Day 2013

Check back at 6pm! Want to see the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to this Livestream of...

Egypt

Stars of Science returns for Season 6 to showcase young Arab innovators

During a press conference organized at Qatar’s National Convention Center (QNCC) in Doha, which Wamda attended earlier today over Google H...

regional competition Stars of Science

Get in the Ring contest targets Moroccan startups scaling internationally

There’s no shortage of startup events in Morocco, but they generally target idea-stage projects, helping companies create business plans r...

competition

What do people tweet about during Ramadan?

As we mentioned in a feature about The Online Project (TOP) report released last year, an increase in internet usge appears in engagement w...

the online project TOP Report

TechWadi and MIT Arab Startup Competition forum [PROMOCODE INCLUDED]

TechWadi and MIT Arab Startup Competition are organizing a weeklong forum ending on June 14th at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center,...

techwadi MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition MIT

Accounting and taxation workshop at the Ministry of Finance Lebanon

In an attempt to support and help young Lebanese tech-entrepreneurs handling their finances, the general director of the Lebanese Ministry...

taxation accounting Workshops

Startup Weekend Gaza 4

Startup Weekend Gaza 4 is the fourth and largest SW ever to be held in Gaza. Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, d...

Dubai Silicon Oasis Techforum

Dubai Silicon Oasis is organizing its 15th session of Silicon Oasis Techforum on Tuesday May 13th from 7 to 9 pm at the ground floor of the...

Dubai Silicon Oasis Techforum

AstroLabs partners with Blackbox to send a Middle Eastern startup to Silicon Valley

AstroLabs, the startup workshop series, is now joining ranks with the organizations working to connect startups in the Middle East with...

tim draper blackbox silicon valley

Palestinian entrepreneur looks to use Xbox Kinect for classroom education

[Arabic] Inspired by the Xbox Kinect, a motion sensor by Microsoft developed for the Xbox 360 and redesigned for the upcoming Xbox 1,...

palestine Gamification

This Algerian woman needs your vote to win a Harvard competition today

Algerian college student Meriem Chehih wasn’t taught how to code in high school. “Here in Algeria, we don’t study computers in high ...

Healthcare Health Mobile

Gaza Sky Geeks bootcamp prepares entrepreneurs to pitch to investors [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Last week, MercyCorps Gaza and Oasis500 partnered to organize their first week long bootcamp in Gaza, in collaboration with Gaza ...

Accelerators Investment Oasis500

Startup news ticker: Taghreedat partners with new proofreading startup and LinkedIn helps students

Tuesday, August 21st. Ideavelopers and Vodafone invest EGP 6 million in Swipe'n'tap [Tweet] On August 4th, Ideavelopers and Vodafone Egypt...

news

New social game launches in Egypt, inspired by protests in Tahrir Square [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] In the midst of Egypt's current tumult, a new social game on Facebook was recently launched to let players experience the events ...

Egypt Gaming

Gazan entrepreneur builds online platform to unite Palestine's professionals [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] One new startup in Gaza is looking to unite all of Palestine’s professionals in one accessible online network. Entrepreneur I...

Incubator Networking Accelerators

How IPAL in Gaza is trying to improve childhood education through gaming [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] In order to help fill the education gap in some parts of the Arab world, three young entrepreneurs from Gaza, Mohammed Youssef,...

Education Gaming

What are the biggest challenges faced by Bahraini entrepreneurs? We ask the crowd [Wamda TV]

During Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor event in Manama, we asked attendees to share their biggest challenges to building their startup. Equity fun...

Bahrain Mix n Mentor Ecosystem

Will this online tourism guide flourish in Gaza? [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Launched by Palestinian entrepreneur Mohannad Al Nounou in Gaza in early 2012, online tourism and activity guide Fos7a offers an ...

Tourism

PayPal announces launch in Egypt

Today, global payment gateway PayPal is announcing its launch in Egypt, where it has enabled services for consumers. Enabling consumer...

PayPal Payment Gateways

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