Wamda

Syria

Wikilogia to raise the bar in Damascus ecosystem

On December 10, Damascus-based Wikilogia launched Startup Technology Trends Program (STTP) with the aim of injecting confidence and...

syria Wikilogia Al Amjad Isstaif

Jordan

When the cold is good for your business

While many of us dread the cold knocking at our doors, some entrepreneurs welcome the winter season with open arms, more than happy to see...

Winter Arabia Weather Jordan

Palestine

Gaza’s Swift Braille helps the blind use smartphones

Swift Braille is a smartphone app that aims to help visually impaired and blind people communicate with others in writing. Worldwide...

SwiftBraille blindness Gaza

Egypt

Fixing Egypt’s waste crisis one handbag at a time

An Egyptian startup in Aswan is turning palm tree waste into handmade products, and is not only providing jobs but helping to revive...

Napata palm waste waste management

Turkey

Kiron, educational hope for refugees

The UN refugee agency says that as of 2015 there are 65.3 million individuals that have been forcibly displaced worldwide, most with little...

Kiron higher education refugees

Saudi Arabia

Sihatech jumps on the Saudi Arabia health tech opportunity

Saudi Arabia has a shortage of healthcare startups, throwing the sector wide open for companies like online medical platform...

Sihatech Saudi Arabia ksa

Jordan

Jordan’s Ekeif is becoming the Arab world’s Instagram for how-to videos

How do you make ketchup at home? What are some self defense moves to use in case of an attack? Many of these questions will yield...

Ekeif Jordan Sima Najjar

Tunisia

Spark Tunisia student geekout bridges social divides

Two members of the winning team at Spark Tunisia came from a high school in Aïn Draham, one of the poorest areas in the country. A...

Innovation Technologie Start-up

U.A.E

Melltoo’s secondhand story

Growing up in France as one of 13 children meant Morrad Irsane’s clothes, shoes, and books, were hand-me-downs. Irsane has since...

melltoo uae algeria

Morocco

Moroccan enviro-startups turn their eyes on Africa

This year COP22 succeeded in shifting into a real platform for action for the development of innovation and entrepreneurship - in Morocco,...

Maroc COP22 Start-up

Regional

Jordanian innovator, once turned down by Stars of Science, is named its champion

The hottest entrepreneurship prize in the region was awarded to Jordanian innovator Sadeem Qdaisat in a narrow victory at Stars of Science...

Stars of Science Jordan Bahrain

Tunisia

Feeling Fabulous: Tunisian app helps healthy ‘rituals’

Remember the last time you had a productive stress-free day? Did something you committed to doing a long time ago? I bet you felt fabulous....

Mobile Apps Diaspora Fabulous

U.A.E

Sellanycar’s Saygin Yalcin: from student to business celebrity

If his YouTube channel is anything to go by, Saygin Yalcin, founder of used car marketplace Sellanycar.com, is not exactly a shy...

sellanycar Saygin Yalcin uae

Jordan

Communication key to soothing rocky VC-startup romance

Part of a maturing ecosystem are the growing pains that go along with it. As startups continue to pop up, so do VC funds, but like any...

Funding Investment VC

Lebanon

App aiding facial paralysis wins 10K at BDL Accelerate hackathon

An app that aids patients with facial paralysis won the $10,000 prize at Lebanon’s BDL Accelerate conference health hackathon on...

healthtech Health hackathon BDL Accelerate

Saudi Arabia

Carpooling for the working women of Saudi, a solution? [Wamda TV]

Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. While there is no official law banning women from the act, it is deeply held religious...

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Saudi Arabia

A Saudi startup invents VR glasses that could change books for ever

By 2020, the global virtual reality (VR) market is projected to reach $150 billion. It is expected to reach its first billion this year...

BeThere Saudi Arabia KAUST

Global

Wamda went to GITEX and met some startups

Dubai’s annual tech trade fair, GITEX Technology Week, is huge. We’re talking 15-minute walks from end-to-end...

GITEX

Lebanon

Toy platform wins Seedstars Beirut, heads to Switzerland to compete for $500K

Toy design and building platform Makerbrane inched closer to a potential investment of $500,00 after winning Seedstars Beirut third annual...

seedstars Makerbrane Riego

Egypt

The lucky 13: Egypt's incubators

Cairo was - surprisingly - named one of the top 10 cities in the world to found a tech-startup last year, and that is likely partly...

incubators Egypt Accelerators

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

Jordan

Home-cooked food gets a taste of delivery services in Jordan

When Marwan Oklah Al Zou'bi and Adam Barghouti were studying indoors during Canada’s harsh winters, ordering homemade food...

Jordan Delivery Homecooked meals

Jordan

Nestrom and how to feed the next two billion

Over half a century ago, the introduction of pesticides and modified irrigation systems helped save one billion people from famine,...

Agriculture Nestrom Yousef Wadi

Scopio aims to become the Getty Images of social media

Social media has popularized videography and photography to an extent where 2 to 4 billion images are pushed out every day. Amidst the...

Scopio user generated content Media

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