Wamda

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TechWadi Roadshow connects MENA startups to Silicon Valley experts

Google's Sharif El-Badawi addresses the crowd at ZINC during TechWadi's stop in Amman. (Images via Samuel Wendel) Despite the near...

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MENA's IoT expansion [Infographic]

People today create a data trace with almost everything they do - trawling Facebook, booking an Uber, walking with a FitBit. The Middle...

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U.A.E

TechWadi MENA Roadshow: Dubai

The TechWadi Roadshow, a ten-day traveling roadshow powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is coming to Dubai, UAE on October 27 -...

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Lebanon

TechWadi MENA Roadshow: Beirut

The TechWadi Roadshow, a ten-day traveling roadshow powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is coming to Beirut on October 23-24. The Roa...

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Egypt

TechWadi MENA Roadshow: Cairo

The TechWadi Roadshow, a ten-day traveling roadshow powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is coming to Cairo on October 22 -23. The Roa...

Roadshow MENA techwadi

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Opportunity in MENA digital advertising [infographic]

Internet advertising is the second largest method of advertising in the world, but MENA is yet to catch up. Global digital ad spending...

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The future of energy is in batteries [Infographic]

This year the world is abuzz with the word 'batteries', as Tesla releases its wall-mounted storage device for the home and the...

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Are MENA’s SME business reforms doing enough?

Governments have been adding their cogs to the startup machine of MENA. Enough though? (Image via Mikehoolboom.com) For entrepreneurs...

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Silicon Valley investor on MENA’s road to startup success

Bern Shen at Flat6Labs mentoring a startup team working on children education. Investor Bern Shen is optimistic about the MENA region’s a...

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8 promising hardware startups from the MENA region

The integrated circuit board, an essential ingredient for any hardware based startup. (Image via toddfun.com) Hardware based...

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Beyond Oil: Tech and Future of Work in MENA

Moving from traditional to knowledge economies is a prickly problem for any country, but especially so for oil-bound Middle Eastern...

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Starting (or investing in) an online business in MENA: lessons learned for founders and investors

In the rush to create the next big success in MENA's online industry, it is useful to pause and ponder over key lessons our nascent...

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Why social entrepreneurship is critical for MENA

Activists in the Middle East and North Africa who identify challenges in their communities must step up and create social enterprises that...

MENA Social Entrepreneurship

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Synthesis and community: how MENA Game participants plan to boost the gaming industry

The MENA region is one of the fastest growing gaming markets in the world - for game developers - and is expected to reach $3.2 billion in...

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Maghreb

Is localization the key to Genious becoming the GoDaddy of MENA?

Can you name the leading web host or registrar in the Arab world or Africa? Hamza Aboulfeth, founder of Morocco’s only registrar and most f...

Web hosting Genious MENA

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Womena, solving the gender imbalance of the region’s angel investors

“We do not want a mentality of men versus women, but rather a comprehensive mentality for knowledge sharing between the two genders i...

Womena MENA Angel Investment

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MENA Games Conference & Exhibition in Beirut

The region’s gaming industry has been steadily growing in the past few years. Although some countries show more activity than o...

gaming industry MENA Gaming

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The growing m-health sector of the Middle East, too slow?

When the Arabic medical information platform AlTibbi accept their World Summit Award for best mobile medical content in February...

MENA Healthcare Dr Bridge

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MENA Spaces Challenge, Deadline January 12th, 2015

Zoomaal and Mideast Creatives have partnered up to launch MENA Spaces. The purpose of this initiative is to enable the establishment and...

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Californian launches gaming startup focused on Arab and Islamic history

Gaming is a far cry from finance and the military, but not only is American Thomas Tellner now creating games from his base in California,...

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AstroLabs+Google announce plans for Dubai coworking space

At San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week, the entrepreneurship platform AstroLabs announced their collaboration ...

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Wamda Research Lab debuts a groundbreaking report on the barriers to scaling

For entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), scaling their companies is not easy. Challenges to finding talent and...

Wamda Research Lab MENA Report

3rd Wharton MENA Conference

The 3rd Wharton Middle East and North Africa Conference, focused on opportunities for investing and doing business in the region, will be...

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9th World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi

Now in it’s 9th year, The World Future Energy Summit has proven to be the leading forum for MENA's energy, renewables and sustainability pr...

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