10 coworking spaces for startups in the Gulf

A few years back, you had to head to Dubai to find a few coworking space in the Gulf. It's no longer the case.  In the last...

Aline Mayard • 14 July, 2016

Arabic speech recognition for children [Video]

The different Arabic dialects often make it harder for voice recognition services to understand and analyse the transmitted...

Reine Farhat • 12 July, 2016

Votek Loujee speech recognition

Invention is not about smarts, but logic

If you have ever wondered how in the world our forefathers thought to invent the technologies we so much rely on today such as fridges,...

Tala El Issa • 11 July, 2016

Steven Johnson Book Reviews Invention

The MENA cloud: how big and where’s it going?

According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, the Middle East and Africa is expected to have the highest cloud traffic growth rate in the...

Tala El Issa • 10 July, 2016

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Oasis500's FinTech Workshop

Oasis500 is hosting a Business and Entrepreneurship workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs with ideas in Financial Technology from August...

Wamda • 07 July, 2016

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Startups and VCs: it doesn't have to be complicated

The relationship between an investor and an investee is sometimes delicate. One is fronting up with cash and faith that it’ll go...

Maya Rahal • 05 July, 2016

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What I know about mentoring: Kathleen Bury

Despite having alumni spread across 14 countries the UK-based foundation Mowgli is still having to work very hard to get people to...

Lucy Knight • 04 July, 2016

Mowgli relationships

MENA by the numbers: what do they really mean?

Internet penetration, media consumption or ecommerce spending rates all tell one piece of a broader story about how the internet is being...

Rachel Williamson • 03 July, 2016

Payfort infographics Data

Meet the makers: GE Garages and the future of industrial entrepreneurship

As the MENA region grapples with non-hydrocarbon diversification in the aftermath of the oil price shock, a slew of strategic announcements...

Vanessa Khalil • 03 July, 2016

MEMakersGE GEMS robotics

Big data in health: good for anything yet?

Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr....

Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2016

Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab's "Innovate for Refugees" Competition

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Region is on a mission to #CracktheCrisis by finding and rewarding tech-driven solutions that help alleviate...

Wamda • 28 June, 2016

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When MENA investors don’t bank on women

For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they...

Brooke Anderson • 27 June, 2016

Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital

Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion]

Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some...

Tamer Azer • 23 June, 2016

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How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations?

This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an...

Jana Kassem • 21 June, 2016

Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE

What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres

To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in...

Archana Menon • 20 June, 2016

Adasi pal robotics robotics

How to prepare for post-oil MENA [Wamda TV]

This video was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. “We need to figure out what are the things here [in the MENA...

Berthe El Aya • 19 June, 2016

Keynote Joichi Ito CE Summit

Community Jameel and Wamda host MIT Media Lab Dubai Workshop #MLDubai

Cities are rising at a fast pace. The MENA region has seen this with Dubai, and shortly after, Masdar City. In the meantime,...

Wamda • 18 June, 2016

Workshop MIT Media Lab Dubai

Applications open for Start IT with Etisalat

  Start IT with Etisalat are on the lookout for this year’s batch of aspiring Egyptian entrepreneurs. The initiative,...

Wamda • 16 June, 2016

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HiiL Innovating Justice: call for applications

Justice through technology is their alma mater. HiiL is an initiative constantly seeking ways to implement new innovations and technologies...

Wamda • 16 June, 2016

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Don’t ask for change, create change [Opinion]

I was asked to give a commencement speech at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha on May 1. Below is an edited version of what I said. I...

Habib Haddad • 16 June, 2016

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MENAT accelerators invest $3.5M, lag global averages

Accelerators have become a “rite of passage” for entrepreneurs around the world, and a report on the state of global programs...

Rachel Williamson • 15 June, 2016

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Visualizing corporate-startup engagement in MENA [Infographic]

This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. During the Collaborative Entrepreneurship (CE) Summit held last month,...

Teeb Assaf • 14 June, 2016

Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship WRL

Corporate-startup partnerships, where are we at in MENA? [Report]

89 percent of large corporations and 94 percent of startups see value in partnering together. [Tweet this] This is one of many findings...

Teeb Assaf • 12 June, 2016

Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship WRL

A marriage of opportunity: why I believe in collaborative entrepreneurship [Opinion]

I begin with a confession: I didn’t believe in collaborative entrepreneurship. Don’t get me wrong,...

Christopher Schroeder • 09 June, 2016

Startup Rising CE Collaborative Entrepreneurship