Wamda

Summer School Takes Controversial Decision to Exclude Lebanese Entrepreneur

Controversy struck Lebanon’s entrepreneurship community this past week, as prominent young Lebanese entrepreneur Abdallah Absi was expelled ...

Competitions Education

SimuWorld For Training And Helping Doctors Wins At Fekrety [WamdaTV]

During a brief chat with the founders of Simu-World (abbreviation for simulator World) winners of the 10k EGP (1.5k USD) prize at Fekrety,...

Competitions

Make-Movie Wins Incubation Prize At Fekrety [WamdaTV]

The make-movie.com team, won the Flat6Labs incubation prize that includes seed investment of 70k EGP (11k USD), during Fekrety, the ...

Competitions

Pioneers of Egypt Award Program by Etijah and the Synergos Institute

Etijah, in collaboration with The Synergos Institute, is now accepting applications for the first...

Competitions

Startup Tob Turba Wins Fikrati Competition in Egypt

Tob Turba Madghout (Madghout stands for compressed) won the first prize in the 'Fikrati' (my idea) competition organized by the...

Competitions

GIST Tech-1 competition

Entrepreneurs! Get Ready. The GIST Initiative invites aspiring entrepreneurs from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East & Turkey to...

Competitions

Ramallah TT - a Hi Tech Hub event

Wednesday, September 12 will witness the kickoff of the Ramallah TT - Hi Tech Hub events, a series of events that will gather anyone...

Competitions Google Ideas

Weekly Wrap-Up: August 26-30

At Wamda, we've decided to bundle up some of our top content for you every week. So every Thursday, look out for our Weekly Wrap-Up if you...

Weekly Wrap-Up Tips Competitions

Seeqnce Launches 8 Web Startups at 2012 Accelerator Program Finale

LivingSocial's recent exit made for good small talk, but hardly daunted budding web entrepreneurs in Lebanon this past Saturday night, as a...

Accelerators Competitions Investment

Fekrety, the AUC's Business Idea Competition, Approaches Final Round

Fekrety, the national business idea competition organized by The American University in Cairo’s School of Business – Ent...

Accelerators Competitions

Algeria

Algerian Team Takes Microsoft's Global Stage to Fight Diabetes

This July, three Algerian college students became the first team from the Middle East and North Africa to place as finalists in the cloud...

Competitions Health Mobile Apps

INJAZ-Lebanon, Student Company Of The Year Competition

INJAZ Lebanon is hosting the 5th “Student Company of the Year” competition, on September 1st 2012, in collaboration with LAU (Lebanese Ame...

Competitions Social Entrepreneurship

Moroccan Game Based on Palestinian Cartoon Wins in Saudi Arabia

Today, GameTako has announced the winning teams from its second Game Zanga competition, which brought over 240 game developers together...

Competitions Gaming

Facing the Legal Challenges of an Art Startup: Draw Me a Song

When Lebanese entrepreneur Nour Tohme started posting musical illustrations of songs for fun on her blog, she had no idea that she was...

Competitions Design MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

Moroccan Startup Taxi Counter Wins Global Competition BeMyApp

Last week was an exciting time for all mobile Moroccan entrepreneurs and developers as it happened to be the BeMYApp WeekEnd...

Competitions Mobile Mobile Apps

Maghreb Startup Initiative Launches Competition for North African Entrepreneurs

North African entrepreneurs, get your ideas ready: The Maghreb Startup Initiative is now live. Founded as a partnership between the...

Accelerators Competitions

The Final Showdown at AUC's Product Innovation TV Show The Hit

Hundreds of rowdy AUC undergrads cheered on as the MC presented the teams. There was cheering, a buzzing atmosphere, and plenty of...

Education Startup Communities Competitions

Google's Ebda2 Competition in Egypt Ends with Controversy

“The baby has a face only their mother could love,” some say. After waiting expectantly for about 9 months, witnessing the labor pains, loo...

Competitions Google Mentorship

KAUST Announces Startup Showcase Winners

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has announced the two winners in its second round of VentureLab, a startup...

Competitions Mobile Apps Trends

Building Interactive Stories in Arabic for Children on Sacha Books [Wamda TV]

Co-founder Samer Adel Youssef of Egyptian startup Sacha Books, presenting at Google's startup competition in Cairo, Ebda2, describes how he ...

Animation Arabic Content Competitions

From Aleppo to Dubai: Syrian Entrepreneur Salim Akil [Wamda TV]

At the MIT Enterprise Forum Workshop last month, Salim Akil of searchinmena.com discusses the challenges of moving out of Syria due to the...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition MIT Investment

Microsoft Imagine Cup UAE Announces Winner

Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a competition inviting software developers around the world to "imagine a world where technology helps solve the...

Competitions Environment Mobile Apps

Shaping the Entrepreneurial Future of Egypt

The 2012 AUC Research Conference, held this past week at the university's New Cairo campus, was an exercise in uniting Egypt's...

Accelerators Angel Investment Arabic Content

Building a Learning Management System in Saudi Arabia: Acadox

During our undergraduate studies in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) we, Mohammad Al-Hareeqi, and Nedal Mourad, and...

MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Accelerators MIT

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