Maghreb Is the Arab World ready for a collaborative economy? This Syrian student says yes. Would you be ready to carpool? Lend your house or your hammer to someone you don’t know? Give a few hours of your time to teach someone? C... Aline Mayard • 14 May, 2013 Sharing Economy Hacker Culture Crowdsourcing
Dubai startups bond at Astrolabs' first Scaling Online Startups workshop New platform Astrolabs isn’t just another mentorship network. Sprung from the minds of ex-Namshi founders Louis Lebbos and Muhammed Mekki, ... Shaimaa El Nazer • 14 May, 2013 Dubai Astrolabs Namshi
Eureeca, the first global crowdinvesting platform, exits beta, focuses on the Middle East Following the general success of crowdfunding platfoms around the globe, several crowdinvesting platforms are now launching to offer a new... Aline Mayard • 14 May, 2013 collaborative economy crowdinvesting Funding models
Egypt's Eduudle makes it easier to find the right Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Bassem Fayek is a man on a mission to "make MOOCs more popular.” A former consultant in the process of getting his MBA, Fayek launched E... Nafez Dakkak • 14 May, 2013 MOOC Education
Namshi raises $13m, its third round in 8 months. Is it burning cash or stockpiling? Namshi, the Dubai-based fashion retail company launched by Germany’s Rocket Internet, has announced another $13 million in investment f... Nina Curley • 13 May, 2013 Summit Partners Namshi Rocket Internet
Lebanese Government and Intel overhaul education by putting tablets in the hands of students Intel and the Lebanese Ministries of Telecom and Education are hoping to make students' backpacks lighter this year, by offering them new... Glen Dalakian II • 13 May, 2013 Public-Private Partnerships Government Education
FOO launches the first mobile matchmaking app for Facebook in the Middle East It might not surprise you that one of Lebanon's earliest mobile app development companies was built by two AUB graduates. It's almost... Maya Rahal • 13 May, 2013 Social Networks Facebook Mobile
Wamda for Women Launches Roundtable in Doha May 20th: Register Now! Wamda for Women is now launching in Doha! Click here to register.Next Monday, May 20th, from 10am to 12pm at the Grand Hyatt Doha, we'll... Wamda • 13 May, 2013 Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs W4WE Women
Entertaining and educating Palestine's children: Anoud Games After the First Intifada in Palestine, there weren't that many educational games for kids in Arabic. At least that's Palestinian... Glen Dalakian II • 13 May, 2013 Education Gaming
What are MOOCs, and how can you benefit from them? One of the hallmarks of an established education system is its glacial pace of change. For all of the recent advances in technology, we... Nafez Dakkak • 13 May, 2013 MOOC Education
How two companies innovated to resuscitate tourism in Tunisia and Morocco Over the past few decades, tourism has been an increasingly important source of revenue for both Morocco and Tunisia. Both countries are... Aline Mayard • 12 May, 2013 Tourism
Watch the Livestream of Flat6Labs Spring Demo Day 2013 Check back at 6pm! Want to see the latest round of startups coming out of Cairo's accelerator Flat6Labs? Tune in to this Livestream of... Wamda • 12 May, 2013 Egypt
Weekly Wrap-Up: May 5-9 This week, we'll be heading to Bahrain for Mix N' Mentor Manama. Make sure to tune in to live.wamda.com as we'll be broadcasting opening... Wamda • 09 May, 2013 Weekly Wrap-Up
MarkaVIP Announces Deal with PayPal; Will Consumers Warm to Online Payment? E-commerce may be one of the fastest-growing and most promising startup sectors in the Middle East, but it still poses several challenges.... Nina Curley • 09 May, 2013 Flash Sales MarkaVIP PayPal
Can This Arabic App Recommender Escape the Fate of AppGratis? Last month, AppGratis made the news after it was pulled from the Apple Store, just a few months after raising a $13.5 million... Aline Mayard • 09 May, 2013
Students Imagine Crazy Tech Ideas at Minya's Second Innovation Day in Egypt Despite a train conductor strike that paralyzed Egypt’s railways in mid-April, the engineering Faculty at Minya University pushed ahead w... Hanan Solayman • 09 May, 2013 Egypt Competitions
