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Beirut Design Week 2016

Beirut Design Week (BDW) is back to disrupt again. Spanning 10 comprehensive days in all of Beirut's areas, this year's edition will cover ...

May Swiss designers Finland

Lebanon

Disrupt!/Design!/ competition for sustainable ideas

Design is here to disrupt for a second year in a row! The second edition of the Disrupt!/Design! event is seeking participants with d...

Beirut Design week 2016 applications

Lebanon

Circular 331: where has Lebanon's money gone?

It is said that innovation is an entrepreneur’s best friend. But in Lebanon a strong second contender has to be the central...

Lebanon for Entrepreneurs Berytech Fund Startup Megaphone

Lebanon

Startup Weekend Beirut 2016

On May 13-15, Startup Weekend is coming to Beirut at the ESA campus in Clemenceau, Beirut. This year's 54-hour challenge will focus on...

Startup weekend Beirut 2016 lebanon

Lebanon

New Arab Women Forum 2016

Now in it's 8th year, the New Arab Woman Forum (NAWF) will be held on May 11, 2016 at the Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut with the theme: Em...

8th conference NAWF Speakers

Lebanon

Apply to UK Lebanon Tech Hub's second cycle

The UK Lebanon Tech Hub Accelerator is currently accepting applications for its second 2016 cycle. TechHub has been...

applications UK Lebanon Tech Hub Beirut Digital District

Lebanon

USEK Entrepreneurship Day: a call for student applications

The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon, in partnership with Cleveland State University, is going to be celebrating its...

submissions Entrepreneurship competition USEK

Lebanon

Arab Arcade Game Jam

Arab Arcade's next 48-hour Game Jam is taking place on the weekend of May 6-8 at the Beirut Digital District in Beirut, Lebanon. If you’re ...

Arab Arcade game jam lebanon

Lebanon

8 things we learnt at MENA Games in Beirut

The gaming industry in the Middle East and North Africa is growing. More than 40 gaming startups from Europe, MENA and Turkey...

Turkish Game Developers Association Netmarble Nuked Cockroach

Lebanon

Krimston 'Kickstarts' its dual-SIM iPhone adapter

Krimston's cofounders Fouad Fattal (left) and Nabil Nasr (right). (Images via Krimston) In April 2012, Lebanese entrepreneur Fouad Fattal...

kickstarter Hardware Crowdfunding

Lebanon

Eduvation Summit in Cairo

Egypt occupies an unfavourable position in international rankings for education and technology at a time where economic growth through...

Eduvation Speakers tech

Lebanon

Open Design Day at BDD

The Myriad community for design is organizing Open Design Day, a free design day aimed at explaining the concepts of design and the ...

Free architects Freelance designers

Lebanon

Equipping the next generation of Lebanese girls with STEM

Event participants take a group photo during the closing ceremony of the event (Image via Girls Got IT) "I used to think technology was...

STEM Girls Got IT MEMakersGE

Lebanon

Arab Arcade's Game Ideation Competition

Take your first steps to becoming a game designer with Arab Arcade’s first Game Ideation Competition! Taking place on March 19 at the UK L...

game design Arab Arcade UK Lebanon Tech Hub

Lebanon

How smart microgrids could ease Lebanon’s electricity woes

It's a big 'ol mess, electricity in Lebanon. (Image via Shutterstock) This article is a crosspost with MIT Technology Revie Arab...

Microgrids Electricite du Liban Electricity

Lebanon

Help in mapping Lebanon's tech ecosystem! Take the World Bank survey!

You're invited to participate in a project that aims to map Lebanon's tech ecosystem! The rise of technology startups in cities is...

call-to-action tech ecosystem world bank survey

Lebanon

INJAZ Lebanon's Innovation Camp (iCamp) for schools in Tripoli

INJAZ Lebanon, an NGO member of INJAZ Al-Arab and Junior Achievement Worldwide, are running a one-day event, Innovation Camp (iCAMP), in T...

innovation workshop Injaz Lebanon schools

Lebanon

Prototyping and the art in hardware creation: White Lab

Prototyping is a product development process made up of tests and iterations. (Image via smashingmagazine.com) “Between the conception and ...

Air prototyping WhiteLab

Lebanon

Girls got IT: Encouraging girls to choose tech

On the 12th of March 2016, five organizaions dedicated to supporting women in tech will be bringing together 400 female high school ...

DOT girls who code schools

Lebanon

Robots and races at ArabNet maker day

Teens displayed their car robots in a Robotic fight show at ArabNet Beirut. (Image via Kalimat) The maker movement is gathering pace...

Axel Space Alex hackerspace panels

Lebanon

Efiester plans parties in Paris with a foot in Beirut

Efiester wants to make organizing parties between friends easier. (Images via Efiester) Robert Harfouche is Lebanese, and lives in France....

party planner party efiester

Lebanon

Apply now to the SE Factory bootcamp in Beirut

Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program and the Nawaya Network are collaborating to launch a new coding academy in...

helping communities SE factory Apply

Lebanon

Content was king at ArabNet Beirut

Full house. (Image via Hasna Frangieh) Content was king at ArabNet Beirut this year and it didn’t take Quantum...

Arabnet Beirut 2016 content Online video

Lebanon

Beco invests in cyber security with Myki seed round

Beco Capital has led a seed investment in Lebanese cyber security startup MYKI, but has not disclosed the total sum. Myki works with...

MyKi cybersecurity lebanon

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