Wamda

Regional

Technology is taking over the world (and the Middle East)

This is a crosspost with Boostmena. Google was founded in 1998 and Facebook was founded in 2004. Fifteen years ago, businesses had no way...

Smart Devices smartphones Technology

Syria

Against all odds, Syrian incubator AfkarPlus launches

Cofounder Samer Al-Aswad addresses the audience at the launch of the Afkar+ incubator on August 8. (Images via Afkar+) Syria's...

syria Challenges Incubator

Regional

Augmented reality and medicine, is the Middle East ready?

After-surgery care in developing countries or remote locations can often be an unknown quantity, but the use of augmented reality during...

InGlove VITAAX MEMakers

Jordan

Jordan’s Mawdoo3 gets $1.5M in Series A funding

The Mawdoo3 team in Amman, soon to grow. (Image via Mawdoo3) Mawdoo3, the Jordanian startup modelling itself on Wikipedia for Arabic...

EquiTrust Mawdoo3 lifestyle

Iraq

Hacking out coworking spaces in Iraq

If there’s one country in the region where entrepreneurs need a good coworking space, it’s Iraq. Baghdad’s two coworking spaces are opera...

burj babel fikra space hackerspace

Egypt

InfoMed digitizes Egypt's family doctors

A spate of high-profile deaths in Egypt from medical misdiagnosis has highlighted the need for better all-round medical care in...

family medicine ehealth InfoMed

Regional

To Lean or not to Lean?

The Lean business methodology works for every business – except for those it doesn’t. The model is increasingly...

lean startup QBIC Lean Methodology

Global

Will wearables be the future of mobile payments?

Bank Audi displays its 'Tap2Pay' at ArabNet Beirut earlier this year. (Image via Payfort) In his second piece on mobile payments,...

Payfort mobile payments

Lebanon

Sweet as honey: how this Lebanese startup founded a thriving business

In the middle of Beirut's Achrafieh area is a small boutique with rows and rows of honey jars stacked on top each other. The boutique...

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Regional

How do you build a smart city?

Dubai's smart city, Silicon Park, focuses on six pillars: life, society, mobility, economy, governance and environment.(Image...

Smart Devices Smart Cities IoTx

Maghreb

Apps open political dialogue in North Africa

Tunisians are making their voice heard. (Image via The Nation) The Arab spring proved the power of social media. Firstly that it goes far...

Arab spring democracy politics

Palestine

Investors and entrepreneurs preach startups to Palestinian university students

It may be hard to believe, but now is the perfect time to start a business in Palestine. “There wasn’t enough [funding] in the pipeline bef...

entrepreneurship palestine arabreneur

Regional

Industrial Internet and energy efficiency in the Middle East

When a car’s fuel is running low, a little dial will let you know, and on the average car you can bet you’ve got about 40km at...

Energy saving Satchnet Chifco

Egypt

Dopay does banking for unbanked Egyptians

Dopay, one of the early startups to get involved in Egypt's financial technology sector, is hoping to build a web of clients among the...

unbanked Dopay financial services

Iraq

Iraq's startups one year after the rise of ISIS [Opinion]

“A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty,” is how Eric Ries d...

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Global

Google, Apple and Samsung, pitching the mobile wallet

Bye to coins and receipts, hello to the phone? (Image via issaasad.me) What will the wallet of the future look like? This question...

samsung android Payfort

Regional

Get your code on in the MENA region

The Coding Cirlce in action. (Image via The Coding Circle) We have covered in the past various coding camps and courses, for both adults...

Developing Algocode Le Wagon

U.A.E

How UAE’s Mrusta raised an unexpected $351K

When Ibrahim Colak, founder of UAE service providers platform Mrusta, attended a networking event at Dubai’s In5 innovation center,...

mrusta seed investment Dubai

U.A.E

UAE creates future female robotics entrepreneurs

The UAE could produce MENA’s next wave of female robotics and hardware entrepreneurs, as technology programs throughout the Emirates...

robotics uae abu dhabi

Jordan

Amman dance studio is building a space for collaboration and social change

"Everyone is a dancer by nature," claims Anas Nahleh, 23. Anas and his brother, Abdul Hadi Nahleh, 25, shared a passion for dancing for...

Jabal Al-Weibdeh Studio 8 amman

Maghreb

Moroccan impact entrepreneurship evangelist Adnane Addioui wins Karim Jazouani prize

Adnane Addioui kicking off Dare Space (Image via Hind Touissate, Dare Space) This year again, the Moroccan entrepreneurs have spoken....

Adnane Addioui CARE MCISE

Lebanon

How Lebanon’s food scandal spurred startup solutions

The Lebanese are all over the world, and more often than not their cuisine acts as the ultimate ambassador for the tiny Middle Eastern...

Beirutista ChefXchange Bibayti

Regional

An ecommerce startup reducing returns in the region

If there’s one industry worth taking a chance on in the region, it’s ecommerce. Arguably still in its infancy in MENA, the...

Return on delivery Virtusize Miella

Regional

Can the internet revolution break down the barriers of data secrecy in the Middle East? [Opinion]

Two trends are set to dramatically disrupt the long prevailing government and corporate data secrecy in the Middle East: data...

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