Wamda

Maghreb

Connecting the IoT dots in Tunisia [Opinion]

The industry of connected objects, or what we have come to call the Internet of Things (IoT), has rapidly expanded around the world, but...

IoT MEMakers CONNECTED HOME

Saudi Arabia

From a home-based workshop to 14 stores: redefining the traditional thobe

The traditional Saudi thobe with a modern twist. (Image via Lomar) The urge to customize his clothing led one young Saudi to quit...

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Lebanon

New tech, new opportunities for cyber criminals, says INTERPOL

INTERPOL cyber security expert Christian Karam discusses the ways cyber criminals conduct their business. (Image via Antoine...

INTERPOL Cyber crime UK Lebanon Tech Hub

Turkey

Local funding for Turkish startups still lacking

Startup Istanbul attendees vowing to stay true to entrepreneurship. (Image via Startup Istanbul) This year's Startup Istanbul has...

Beenext Etohum startup istanbul

Regional

The problem with e-payments

What traditional payment solutions look like. Google ‘payment solutions Middle East’ and you’ll see tens of solutions, which can lead...

e-payments fin-tech Payfort

Kuwait

Startup Weekend Kuwait: first steps to forming a local Silicon Valley

The atmosphere at Startup Weekend Kuwait was filled with enthusiasm as 22 groups pitched their ideas. "It was an exhausting and...

kuwait event Startup Q8

Global

The growing list of global VCs investing in MENA startups

Earlier this year we published an article about the reasons behind foreign VCs' increase interest in the Middle East. Here...

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Palestine

Freelance marketplace Nabbesh helps Palestinians leap borders

Unemployed youth in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank can now find virtual freelance work more easily, following the launch of an...

Fursati west bank Gaza

Saudi Arabia

Meet Fatima Batook: the woman who helped make Saudi women’s gyms a reality again

Women in Saudi Arabia who wish to go to the gym can do so once again, thanks to the lobbying and entrepreneurial efforts of one woman:...

Saudi Arabia Health Women

Iraq

Exchanges are creating Iraqi changemakers

Over the past 10 years some 3,000 young Iraqis have travelled on exchange programs funded by foreign governments, and it's some of...

cultural exchange entrepreneurship iraq

Saudi Arabia

Fab Lab Dhahran: building a new generation of makers

The country's future makers (Images via Fab Lab Dhahran) Fab Lab Dhahran launched in 2014 and is Saudi Arabia’s eastern locus for p...

Fab Lab makers Saudi Arabia

Lebanon

What I know about life: Nicolas Sehnaoui

(Image via mpt.gov.lb) Instrumental in the creation of the Beirut Digital District, bringing Lebanon ever closer to faster internet and...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub Beirut Digital District lebanon

U.A.E

Melltoo launches premium service

Things are moving fast at Melltoo Marketplace. The Dubai-based mobile classifieds startup has just rolled out a new premium service just a...

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Regional

Disrupting lives: how tech is changing us

When it comes to technology changing our lives and revolutionizing the way we do things the examples are endless - from steam engines to...

disruptive technology IoT MEMakers

U.A.E

Taskspotting app raises $1.2M Series A round

Market research app Taskspotting has announced the closing of their Series A round, to the tune of $1.2 million, led by Mena Venture...

Mena Venture Investments Series A Investment

Egypt

Yaoota raises $2.7M Series A from UAE's KBBO

Yaoota cofounders Sherif ElRakabawy and Mohamed Ewis (Image via Rachel Williamson) Egyptian startup Yaoota has landed a $2.7 million...

yaoota Series A Egypt

Regional

Optimization finally matters in MENA e-commerce [Opinion]

Back in 2010, I wrote about the upcoming ecommerce boom in the Middle East, despite the many omni-present barriers at an...

funnel leakage friction

Lebanon

Former Lebanese bakery serves up innovation

The Obsessive Drafter hard at work. (Image via theBakery) Let’s head to theBAKERY, a cozy design lab in Beirut's Mar Mikhael n...

Guillaume Crédoz The Obsessive Drafter theBakery

Oman

One-stop shop for Oman’s entrepreneurs launches at Oman SME Summit 2015

Al Sayyid Dr. Adham Turki Al Said addresses the summit. (Images via International Finance Magazine) Omani entrepreneurs in search of...

oman sme summit 2015 sme summit smes

Lebanon

Lebanese teens invent urine-powered generator

As Lebanon's environmental woes continue to escalate, with mountains of garbage rotting in the street and power cuts lasting...

urinegenerator lebanon aub

Egypt

The Egypt teen cracking the fuel crisis

Azza Faiad’s passion for science started in a taxi ride late in 2010, a ride which sparked a potentially multibillion dollar idea to create ...

pyrolysis EPRI alternative energy

Regional

Does your business really need an Arabic Top Level Domain?

It’s now possible to buy domain names in non-roman letters including Chinese, Arabic and Russian, following a major expansion in the kinds o...

TLD top level domains

Egypt

What Egypt's local investors want

Egypt has made headlines lately for attracting a series of high-level venture investments from foreign players, but local investors are...

KI angels Tennra ideavelopers

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...

car share Transportation Sharing Economy

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