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Feeding Demand for Local, Organic Produce in the Arab World: Dubai's Ripe

It isn’t easy being green – especially when you’re in a desert. The UAE is fertile ground for local businesses, but when Becky Balderstone s...

Food & Beverage

Yemeksepeti to Enter MENA Region After $44M Investment from General Atlantic

As Webrazzi reported today, Yemeksepeti, a leading Turkish food ordering site, has announced a US $44 million round of funding from New...

Food & Beverage Investment

10 Tasty Food & Beverage Startups In The Arab World

Today we look at some of MENA’s most delicious and inspired food startups. From falafel to cupcakes, watermelon to shawarma, these tasty n...

Food & Beverage

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 09-13

The season of entrepreneurship events is just around the corner, so make sure you catch up on the latest news, and check out what...

Crowdfunding Food & Beverage Health

RoundMenu Announces $730K Round of Funding to Expand into New Markets

After launching just over a month ago, RoundMenu has closed its first round of investment, for US $730,000, led by HoneyBee Tech Ventures,...

Food & Beverage Mobile Apps Technology

Lebanese Recipe Sites Localize for Ramadan

To cater to cooks during Ramadan, two Arabic recipe sites have recently taken steps to make content their content more local and...

Food & Beverage Trends

Finding a Recipe for Success During a Revolution: Egypt's NOLA Cupcakes

Laila Sedky has achieved a lot so far for a 25-year old. By founding NOLA cupcakes just before the Egyptian revolution, she’s managed t...

Food & Beverage

Moroccan Startup LaCartePlz Debuts Online Food Ordering in Rabat

Among the things I love most about my job are the innovation and creativity, but also contact and interaction with people like real...

Food & Beverage

The Journey of a Food & Beverage Entrepreneur in Amman

Nickolas Neibauer's friendliness at Caffé Strada seemed out of place at first in Amman. With his warm toothy smile, and American accent, I ...

Food & Beverage

Sneak Peek of Upcoming Restaurant Discount Site RoundMenu

We received word today that a new site has soft launched to offer discounts exclusively for restaurants in Dubai: RoundMenu. As daily deals...

Food & Beverage

Entrepreneur of the Week: Saudi Entrepreneur Deem Al-Bassam Pivots from Failure into Success [Wamda TV]

[This video is no longer available.] Saudi entrepreneur Deem Al-Bassam speaks to Wamda from her residence in Dubai, describing what went...

Failure Entrepreneur of the Week Food & Beverage

Beirutna: A Platform To Locate, Socialize and Share Favorite Places In Lebanon

A couple of years ago, four young Lebanese became frustrated enough by the lack of restaurant guides in Beirut that they spent a month...

Food & Beverage Mobile Apps

New Collective Workspace MAKE Launches in Dubai

Leith Mathews came to Dubai in 2007 to work in the emirate’s booming food & beverage industry. Having a genuine passion for the i...

Food & Beverage Startup Communities Coworking Spaces

Pioneering a Gourmet All Natural Dessert Line in the UAE: Catwalk Cow

When Samia Ataya first started dessert line Catwalk Cow two years ago in the United Arab Emirates, she had a vision of an ideal product...

Food & Beverage

Scaling an online reviews platform in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

We met up with Jihad Alammar, the founder of Qaym, at Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh to discuss how his restaurant review site is scaling in Saudi Ar...

Reviews Mix n Mentor Mobile

Sister Entrepreneurs Open Trendy Café in Oman [Wamda TV]

Omani entrepreneur Amal Al-Khusaibi, Deputy Managing Director of The K’s Café, discusses how she and her sisters turned a small catering bu...

Conferences Ecosystem Food & Beverage

Weekly Wrap-Up: September 23-27

This week has been all about inspiration, and what it takes to foster a work environment that encourages creativity. How do you do it? Pic ...

Airlines E-commerce Egypt

Weekly Wrap-Up: October 07-11

When it comes to change, this week was especially ripe in news about changing careers and directions. The question on everybody's mind is...

CoE Cards Daily Deals Developers

Interactive Cooking Recipes: Hala Labaki of Shahiya [Wamda TV]

Hala Labaki, CEO and co-founder of Shahiya, explains at Arabnet 2012 the idea behind Shahiya, the platform providing interactive cooking...

Food & Beverage

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