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Saudi Arabia

What I know about social entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Muhammad Al-Bakri

Entrepreneurship is now a top destination for youth and governments. It can provide jobs, diversify the economy and encourage its...

YIG Saudi Arabia Social Entrepreneurship

Regional

PepsiCo Social Impact Competition announces its finalists

Disclaimer: The list of the finalists was updated on November 15, 2016 due to the withdrawal of one of the startups. PepsiCo and Wamda...

Pepsico Social Entrepreneurship competition

Lebanon

Despite lack of funding, social entrepreneurship endures [Wamda TV]

“Young people today are not aware of society’s real problems.” This is what motivated Mona Itani, a lecturer at the...

Mona Itani Social Entrepreneurship social impact

Egypt

Egypt startup trades clicks for cash

To try to defuse an education crisis, ‘clickfunding’ startup Bassita is joining forces with the Misr El Kheir Foundation to...

Bassita Clickfunding Egypt

Regional

Can audiobooks inspire more Arabs to read? [Wamda TV]

Rawan Barakat, the founder of Raneen. (Image via Wamda) Studies have shown that Arab citizens hardly care about reading - dedicating...

Rawan Barakat Raneen Raneen Media

Regional

You need more than a website to save the world [Opinion]

Aspiring social entrepreneurs need to understand that the tech component of solving a social problem is only a very small part of...

Opinion Social Entrepreneurship Pepsico

Lebanon

Making social pay, #MixNMentor Beirut

If you had a choice between having a $10 million business and being on the cover of Forbes magazine, or running a $50 million business and...

lebanon Mix n Mentor Social Entrepreneurship

Tunisia

What I know about social entrepreneurship: Camille Courtaud

Social entrepreneurship, high impact entrepreneurship, social business, impact investing, so many mysterious words. What do they mean? Do...

Social Entrepreneurship Social Business Yunus Social Business

Regional

Wamda and Pepsico launch a social impact competition

PepsiCo, the global food and beverage company, with brands including Quaker Oats, Lays, Gatorade, Tropicana and Pepsi-Cola has announced...

Pepsico Social Entrepreneurship Social Impact Competition

Syria

10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation

“Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the...

Social Entrepreneurship syria Education

Maghreb

For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems

What if Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia joined forces to solve their social problems? It’s a germ of an idea that a small number of...

algerian startup initiative espace bidaya Lab'Ess

Saudi Arabia

What I know about doing good: Shahd Al Shehail

Saudi native Shahd Al Shehail cofounded Project Just during her time in India as an Acumen Global Fellow. Project Just, an online...

Project Just sustainable fashion WIK

Maghreb

Entrepreneurship lessons from the Algerian desert

Slimane Kadi turned the desert into a succesfull business. (Images via Mehdi Bennaceri) This is a story about entrepreneurship in its most...

low tech desert algeria

Regional

Piecing together the social enterprise ecosystem in MENA

For every Dumyé doll purchased one is gifted to an orphan. (Image via Dumyé) Sourcing a definition for social enterprise could prove as p...

Ustad Mobile Social Tent Palestyle

Regional

Eco and social entrepreneurs meet in Barcelona

Enrique de Villamore Martín, director of SCP/RAC, speaks at the the SwitchMed networking panel. (Images via SwitchMed) More than 400 ...

Social Entrepreneurship SwitchMed

Egypt

How to make social entrepreneurship work in MENA

JP Morgan's Ali Idrissi, Droomzaken's Martijn Blom and Accion Venture...

Misr El Kheir Social Entrepreneurship Egypt

Lebanon

Social entrepreneurs tackle Lebanon's trash crisis

With the Naameh lanfill closed, trash has piled up the street. (Image via National Post) The piles of garbage in the streets and...

stratups crisis trash

Egypt

Lessons from the Tahrir Academy shutdown

Tahrir Academy first announced their closure earlier this summer. News that Egyptian online learning center Tahrir Academy was...

nafham legislations close down

Maghreb

Morocco’s Eiréné4Impact in the push for social entrepreneurs

Future Moroccan entrepreneurs learning about social entrepreneurship at Impact Camp. (Images via Sara Kaddaoui) This fall, school is back...

impact entrepreneurship Eiréné4Impact morocco

Egypt

Egyptian social entrepreneurship incubator aims to help the neediest

A year ago the Misr El Kheir foundation launched GESR, an Egyptian incubator for social entrepreneurship, with the...

Gesr Egypt Social Entrepreneurship

Regional

She Entrepreneurs 2016 applications open

She Entrepreneurs is a leadership program for young emerging women social entrepreneurs in the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden. The...

Arab women Sweden SheEntrepreneur

Maghreb

How this social entrepreneurship coworking space could change Morocco

Don't let the basic interior fool you. Dare Space has huge potential. (Image via Hind Touissate, Dare Space) With its bare walls and...

MCISE Rabat Coworking Spaces

Maghreb

Lik pays mobile users to pay ad-tention

Lik cofounders on the stage during LevelUp event (Image vis Houda Lahlou) A revolutionary idea is not enough to ensure the success of a...

contextualization LevelUp LevelUp Morocco

U.A.E

Self-made: How Dubai’s Dumyé is in the running to win $1M in funding

Dumyé's dolls were a big hit at a recent workshop for orphans in Lebanon (Images via Dumyé) Big money isn’t an essential requirement to lau...

orphans crafts dolls

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