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Fadi Ghandour Announces Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Movement

In a speech today at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, Fadi Ghandour, CEO of Aramex and Chairman of the Board at Wamda,...

Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour Innovation

King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation and Achievement

The King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation and Achievement recognizes, celebrates and supports young Arab leaders who are active ...

Competitions Innovation Jordan

GIST Startup Training Dubai

The GIST Startup Training Dubai on December 10, 2012 is an intense and interactive training designed to spark innovation and catalyze new st...

Innovation Startup Communities

Bahrain’s Majaal Makes Warehousing Startup Friendly

Speculating about the rise of tech companies is fun, but with e-commerce on the region on the rise, the seemingly mundane expansion of a...

E-commerce Expansion Innovation

Visionary Palestinian Startup Goes Global with Touch Technology

Palestinian startup Iris recently launched their “room of senses,” a new therapy medium for children and the disabled. The “room” is a spac...

Health Innovation Social Entrepreneurship

Beirut Creative Cluster Works to Increase Collaboration Among Local Companies

One year ago, the Beirut Creative Cluster (BCC) was just an idea developed by Berytech. Today, the cluster is set to become a hub for...

Animation Conferences Design

Beirut Social Innovation Camp

The Beirut Social Innovation Camp brings together entrepreneurs, creative minds, developers, and social innovators to come up with w...

Competitions Conferences Ecosystem

Global Entrepreneurship Summit Comes to Dubai: Exclusive Discount for WamdaCard Holders

This year, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit comes to Dubai, hosted by Entrepreneurial Ventures of Arabia (EVA), to offer entrepreneurs in...

Competitions Conferences du

54 Hours Inside Bahrain’s Emerging Tech Startup Scene

Having already touched 200 cities worldwide, the global grassroots Startup Weekend movement recently came to Bahrain’s burgeoning tech s...

Competitions Innovation Startup Weekend

Jordan's Hashdoc Goes for a Global Market

An entrepreneur at heart and techie in action, Tarek Koudsi learned a lot from his family hardware and software business in Jordan before...

Cloud Computing Innovation Oasis500

Social Media to the Rescue: Egypt's Splinter Makes Résumés Obsolete

“A year and a half ago my brother asked me to design and update his CV and I remember telling him, this is the social era man, I'm sure we w...

Digital Marketing Egypt Innovation

Anghami Sees Surge in Downloads, Partners with Orange

Just a week after launching, Anghami is taking steps to monetize. Yesterday, the team announced a partnership with Orange, a Jordanian ...

Business Development Innovation Reviews

Can Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Solve Addressing Problems in the Arab World?

When Khaled Naim started building Addy.co in January, it was a side project conceived during a Startup Weekend. But after he debuted Addy...

Innovation Mobile Mobile Apps

Kenya Takes Center Stage For African Innovation

Starting today, hundreds of investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and techies are assembling to pack the halls of Nairobi’s K...

Ecosystem Innovation Pitching

Innoventures and Fascila Launch Startup Reactor Acceleration Program

Last week, Innoventures announced the launch of a new entrepreneurial support program called ‘Startup Reactor’. Launched in...

Accelerators Ecosystem Egypt

Kairos Collects the 50 Most Innovative Student-led Ventures – Are You One?

Kairos Society gathers a group of leading entrepreneurs around the globe to collaborative on initiatives and pioneer new concepts- and...

Competitions Ecosystem Fellowship

Egyptian National Competitiveness Council Disappoints: Where Were the Entrepreneurs?

I like to challenge my prejudices every now and then, so I decided to accept an invitation to the eighth annual conference of The Egyptian...

Conferences Ecosystem Egypt

Egyptian Accelerator Flat6Labs Hits Its Stride in Cycle 2 Demo Day

Flat6Labs, the Cairo-based accelerator, held its third demo day event on the 17th September, dubbed the “Cycle 2 Demo Day”. Not only did the...

Accelerators Acquisitions Egypt

Top 20 Most-Watched TED Talks Of All Time

Today we highlight the most popular TED Talks to date, announced by TED in late August. Whether you think watching TED Talks during the...

Advice Conferences Ecosystem

Pentacle's Eddie Obeng: Creating Business Education That Keeps Pace with the Modern World

Is the business school model outdated? British educator and entrepreneur Eddie Obeng thinks so, and dedicated himself to developing...

Education Innovation

How Can Cities in MENA Encourage and Retain Creativity?

What makes a city creative? There are a few factors. Density is one; cities with higher densities increase the chance of meaningful...

Ecosystem Innovation

HCT Vice Chancellor Tayeb Kamali on Innovating Education for the Emirates

In less than half a century, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has gone through extraordinary change. Today, work progresses on world-class...

Education Innovation

Hockey Tips for Entrepreneurs: Do You Know Where the Puck is Going?

While not a huge hockey fan, I am a great admirer of the sport’s legend Wayne Gretsky. I simply am in awe when women and men come a...

Ecosystem Innovation

How to Generate and Assess Good Entrepreneurial Ideas

You may think that entrepreneurs have the ability to produce better and more efficient streams of ideas than ordinary people. While it’s b...

Innovation Ideas

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