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A Look at Egypt's ICT Sector: Growth, Strategy, and Impact on Startups

Note: this piece has been adapted from the Arabic original. To help the Egyptian economy recover from the revolution, the Egyptian...

Advertising Egypt Mobile

Egypt's National ICT Strategy [Report]

The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) has just launched a new National ICT Strategy to revamp and boost t...

Egypt

Information and Communications Technology Indicators in Egypt [Report]

Given the role social media and technology played in the Egyptian revolution, it should come as no surprise that Egypt's mobile internet...

Egypt

Social Business Gets a Boost in Tunisia with Launch of Muhammad Yunus's New Holistic Movement

March 13th was a day to remember in Tunisia this year. That day, Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi Noble Prize winner and one of the...

Job Creation Social Change Social Entrepreneurship

6 Reasons to Use Video Advertising

There's no doubt that video is the space to watch in online content; by 2014, it may account for 90% of content consumed on the internet,...

Video Advertising Advertising Video On Demand

Lebanon's Presella Targets the Globe with an E-ticketing and Event Crowdfunding Platform

Watching people entering the We Were Evergreen concert in Beirut a few weeks ago was certainly a show. People were excited to show their...

Crowdfunding E-commerce

Swiss Platform Works to Boost the Arab Film Industry

Arab cinema is gaining popularity across the Arab world, as many young documentary and short film producers are making names for...

Entertainment Arabic Content

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...

Egypt Competitions

Rocket's HelloFood Launches in Saudi Arabia and Morocco; Can It Tackle the Middle East?

Yesterday, Rocket Internet expanded their HelloFood brand into Saudi, marking the German clone factory's first expansion of its...

Rocket Internet Food & Beverage Delivery

New Q&A Platform Ejaba Offers Entrepreneurs Access to Expert Advice

Entrepreneurs across the Middle East now have a new affordable means of getting advice: Ejaba.me, a Q&A platform that offers...

Advice Mentorship

Would You Be Concerned if Google Bought Out WhatsApp? [Poll Results]

After moving to Beirut, the first thing people ask me when we want to stay in touch is not “Can I have your number?” “What’s your e-ma...

Telecommunication SMS Google

How Companies Manage CEO Turnover across the Globe [Report]

Most companies around the global prefer to hire their CEOs locally or from within, a new study has found. 83% of companies that hired a...

ceo Job Recruitment Programme

GCC Comes Out On Top in Global ICT Network Readiness [Report]

Qatar leads the Arab world in “networked readiness”, showing a huge boom in mobile broadband subscription from 9.6% to an enormous 70.3% ov...

Technology Government

The Emirates Foundation for Youth Development: A Local Model for Supporting Young Entrepreneurs

A major factor in the success of any country is investing in youth to ensure their economic, technological, scientific and...

Support Organizations Public-Private Partnerships Youth

PitchFest Supports App Development in Lebanon

Last week at AltCity in Beirut, an online education platform beat out 10 competitors to win the co-working space's first mobile...

Apple Has Pulled AppGratis, But Could Its Model Be Replicated in the Arab World?

Dreaming of discovering new apps that would make your life easier or more entertaining? That's what app-discovery apps are for. From...

The First Startup Weekend Ramallah Awards a Job Application Screening Platform

Note: this piece is adapted from the Arabic original.Startup Weekend Ramallah almost didn't happen. The organizers- Jaafar Houjair, ...

SWRamallah Startup Weekend

Meet the First Arabic Music Teaching Platform

Correction: We received an update that I3zif may not be launching an e-store. After struggling to learn how to play the guitar in Jordan,...

Education E-commerce

Startup Weekend Assiut Breaks Barriers in Upper Egypt

Assiut held its first StartUp Weekend (SW) last weekend on a Nile boat-hotel facing the picturesque view of the old town. There was...

Startup Weekend

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Thought Leadership