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First Syrian takes home top prize in Stars of Science

Yaman Abou Jieb taking home first prize. (Images via Stars of Science) Yaman Abou Jieb prides himself in being the first Stars of Science...

Qatar Foundation competition Stars of Science

Palestine

Palestinian startup to compete in Seedstars World finals

First place and a ticket to Switzerland: meet the Mashvisor team. (Images via Arabreneur) Mashvisor has been selected as a national winner...

Mashvisor SeedStars International seedstars

Egypt

Startups urged to use Egypt's wealth of waste

Rubbish piled in the streets and beside waterways is a common sight in many of Egypt's cities and rural areas. (Image via...

PET flakes El Misbah El Mudii Tagaddod

U.A.E

With new workshops and corporates on board; 2015 Mix N’ Mentor roadshow concludes in Dubai

Workshops, mentorship and enthusiasm - it's all there at Mix N' Mentor. Scheduled for December 10 at Hult Business School, Dubai Internet...

Marketplace Edition mix n mentor dubai Mix n Mentor

U.A.E

twofour54 exits four years investment in SAE Institute to CedarBridge

Snapshot duing one of the 3D animation courses offered by SAE (image is from the SAE platform) twofour54 announced today its exit from...

SAE Institute Exit TwoFour54

Lebanon

Examining the 'Business to Diaspora' market [Opinion]

Editor's note: this is the second of two articles on diaspora engagement. You can read the first one here. The diaspora is more than a...

Diaspora engagement Lebanese Diaspora lebanon

Maghreb

Algeria to get its first coworking space

Coworking and more at Sylabs (Image via Sylabs) The Algerian web community has many brillant tech minds, motivated marketers, and...

sylabs algeria Coworking Spaces

Egypt

Sun rises on Egypt's Silicon Valley

The Middle East has long been searching for its own Silicon Valley, but it’s been searching for the wrong ecosystem under the wrong...

MEMS semiconductor Sun City

Lebanon

Le Wagon deploys first batch of coders in Beirut

General manager of Le Wagon El Khoury speaks out (Image via Ayman Farhat) Coding school Le Wagon graduated its first batch of Beirut-based ...

Le Wagon beirut Coding

Regional

Eco and social entrepreneurs meet in Barcelona

Enrique de Villamore Martín, director of SCP/RAC, speaks at the the SwitchMed networking panel. (Images via SwitchMed) More than 400 ...

Social Entrepreneurship SwitchMed

U.A.E

The Gamifiers: making business fun

The Gamifiers participate in Dubai Lynx We've all been there, dragging ourselves through another long day at work doing routine tasks that...

TheGamifiers uae Gamification

U.A.E

Young Saudi entrepreneur honored at Takreem’s 2015 awards

Khaled AlKhudair receives the Young Entrepreneur award. (Images via Takreem) In honour of his efforts as the founder and CEO of Glowork,...

AlKamandjati Palestinian Happy Child Center TAKREEM

Regional

Intel's ChallengeME IoT competition announces winners

Intel's ChallengeME competition showcased a diversity of IoT innovation at Berytech in Beirut. (Images via Lina Mubarak) A logistics...

ChallengeME IoT MEMakers

Egypt

Lessons from the Tahrir Academy shutdown

Tahrir Academy first announced their closure earlier this summer. News that Egyptian online learning center Tahrir Academy was...

nafham legislations close down

Regional

Turning to technology to preserve cultural sites

Syria's Palmyra has been a subject of looting and destruction. (Image via Shutterstock) This article is an edited crosspost from the MIT...

Nframes Sketchfab Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage

Egypt

Egypt pill reminder app sets sights on Germany

Despite having perfect health, Ahmad ElKaragy always dreaded having colds for one reason: he often forgot to take his medication...

MEMakers Healthcare Egypt

Regional

The ‘ease’ of doing business in MENA [Infographic]

Starting a business and running it isn’t easy. It becomes less so when the economy in which you want to start the business...

Doing Business Report Oman Yemen

Global

Web Summit draws in MENA startups

Paddy Cosgrave, Websummit founder opening speech. (Images via Web Summit) This year’s Web Summit was a clear demonstration of the w...

Jobland EME Mosaikx

Saudi Arabia

The rise of makerspaces in Saudi Arabia

Hackerspaces aren’t new to the region, but they are new to Saudi Arabia. Two years ago we highlighted a number of hackerspaces in...

Fab Lab Beirut Fab Lab Cairo Geeks Valley

Egypt

Fawry sells major stake for $100M

A consortium of international investors has taken an 85 percent stake in Egyptian electronic bill presentment and payment platform Fawry...

fawry Egypt Investment

Regional

Things to keep in mind when prepping for a VC round [Opinion]

Investors and industry-leading startups can do great work together. (Image via MetroMBA) Entrepreneurs are a gifted breed of individuals...

Walid Faza Wamda Capital VC investment

Regional

The female VCs of MENA

Noor Sweid and Hala Fadel. (Image via Leap Ventures) There are two common complaints in the Middle East startup sector: a lack of funding,...

MIT Enterprise Forum GCC MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Zen Yoga

U.A.E

Makersbuilders joins the innovators of the Arab region

Makersbuilders with parents and children filling up In5 in 2014. (Images via Makersbuilders) Gaps in the market, children...

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Iraq

Curing Iraq's coder crisis

Iraqi startups suffer from a critical lack of skilled coders but a new bootcamp in Baghdad called The Week is trying to narrow this talent...

app developers coders The Week

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