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Jordan

Tarjama bridges language gap

Medieval Arabic translations preserved the cultural heritage of ancient Greece and Rome. Today the same knowledge transfer continues and...

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Turkey

Turkey’s Sukolay taps water delivery for disruption

Turkey is a country of plastic bottles - in cafes, on the street, and in the home. Although many parts of Turkey do generally have...

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U.A.E

How to build trust with customers [Wamda TV]

People are leading busier lives and there is little time left for DIY (do-it-yourself) household chores. With no time for the home...

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Lebanon

Entrepreneurship: an unequal playing field

The message aspiring business leaders get when they go to conferences and listen to motivational speeches by their role models, urging them...

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Algeria

Offshore easier than home for Algerian ecommerce startup Zawwali

Algeria’s crusty postal system, lack of addresses and minimal online payment options made international expansion for ecommerce...

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U.A.E

Dubai is growing the sounds of local talent

At 13 years old, Zain Khan, founder and CEO of The Sound Gaarden, started playing bass guitar for a few high school bands in...

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Saudi Arabia

Nana Direct makes grocery shopping easier in Saudi Arabia

Sami Al-Helwah took his time to enter the Saudi retail market with his Nana Direct grocery shopping application. The young Saudi...

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Saudi Arabia

The Saudi women taking on the kingdom’s education sector

As Saudi Arabia wants to diversify its economy away from oil, education is essential for the upbringing of a generation endowed with the...

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Lebanon

Innovation Factory fills Lebanon’s hardware development gap [Wamda TV]

There aren’t many startups whose entrance is preceded by a long and winding dirt road, an army station across the street, and a...

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Morocco

Ketabook turns niche market into a Maghreb bookseller’s dream

The story of Ketabook is the one of a historian father and his marketer son. It started 17 years ago when Mohamed El Mansour, a history...

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Egypt

Jordan's POSrocket turns restaurant registers to a thing from the past

Four years as the cofounder of a successful food delivery company, acquired by Turkey's Yemeksepet in 2012, Zeid Husban was ready for...

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Egypt

Egypt’s Edfa3ly finds a Kuwaiti safe haven

This article has been crossposted from Nuwait. Egyptian ecommerce play Edfa3ly has achieved the dream - a successful expansion into the...

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Morocco

Moroccan 'search engine for sales' Vendo raises seed round

Two-year-old Moroccan ecommerce search engine Vendo.ma has raised 2.7 million dirhams (US$267,000) from a business angel based in...

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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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Tunisia

Tunisia startup makes robots, not human substitutes

When Anis Sahbani left his job as a university lecturer in France to start a robot-making startup in Tunisia, half of his friends thought...

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Iran

Turkish payments startup Iyzico closes $13M Series C

On July 15, Barbaros Ozbugutu and Tahsin Isin were celebrating in Istanbul. After years of bureaucracy, their online payment company...

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U.A.E

Hidden gold mines for MENA’s air tech entrepreneurs

If Paul Papadimitriou’s realistic air tech projections can be summed up in one piece of cautionary advice for startups, it is that in...

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U.A.E

Using big data and AI to fill the digital Arabic content void

When it comes to digital content there’s not much out there in Arabic. In fact, according to data released in the 2016 Media in...

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Lebanon

Proximie’s AR tool delivers healthcare to war zones

The idea came about during a 2012 mission to El Salvador. As a volunteer with the Global Smile Foundation, Boston-based Lebanese...

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U.A.E

Holidaying with Holiday ME

“Whenever you're booking a holiday…there’s a lot of discussion happening for the family or solo traveler,”...

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U.A.E

Hyphen founder’s gutsy life choice leads to a global adventure

“Luck doesn’t exist, it’s created by people taking risks and finding opportunity.” This is what Nigerian serial...

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Jordan

Solar energy for clean water

Have you ever wondered from where astronauts get their drinking water? They reclaim 93 percent of their waste water stored on their space...

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Algeria

Hate speech to dialogue: Munathara reframes online debate

Social media is often depicted as a game changer for democracy and freedom of speech, but by no means has it contributed to healthy...

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Palestine

Social Dice helps navigate rough waters of MENA hiring process

When you ask founder Saed Shela what the secret is to Social Dice’s success, he will say it is about making the hiring process smart...

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