Wamda

Lebanon

Lebanon's startup clusters go beyond Beirut

As Lebanon develops its tech startup culture to become a serious player in the region, the capital of Beirut has become the country’s u...

Chouf Entrepreneur Bio Soil Outreach Leadership Academy

Lebanon

Lebanese drones tackling forest fires, NAR

In 2014, when fires started raging through Nicolas Zaatar’s home district of Baabda in Lebanon, an opportunity presented...

Next Automated Robots MEMakersGE NAR

Saudi Arabia

KSA e-store caters to electronics hobbyists

A Hobby District circuit. (Images via Hobby District) Amateur circuit designers have surged into the electronics manufacturing sector...

Massimo Banzi HobbyDistrict MEMakersGE

Egypt

Strategies to scale: TA Telecom’s expansion beyond Egypt [WRL report]

Scaling is a tough challenge for startups to overcome but some, like TA Telecom offer strategies that other companies...

Reports TA Telecom Wamda Research Lab

Egypt

Hub in a Box creates off-the-shelf plan for hub finances

Hub 'DNA' - working out what's essential and what's not. (Image via Eduard Cousin) Asking Adam Molyneux-Berry about Hub in a Box is...

Global Innovation Gathering ImpactHubs Naweya

Palestine

Work Factory builds Ramallah startup community

Work Factory hosted the West Bank's most recent Startup Grind. (Images via Work Factory) You can read Wamda's definitive guide to...

smart-x toastmasters Work Factory

Saudi Arabia

Et3arraf brings traditional Saudi courting online

Et3arraf is a meeting of the ways: old evolving into the new. (Image via Et3arraf) Hundreds of years ago in the Arabian Desert,...

Matchmaking love Et3arraf

Jordan

Altibbi opens Pandora’s box on MENA’s healthcare questions

From a doctor's office, to your PC to your phone - the changing face of medicine. (Image via Jacqueline Sofia) A young mother in Saudi...

digital health MEMakersGE Diabetes Healthcare

Palestine

The freelancer life: tips from Gaza's successes

A freelancing workshop in Gaza, run by UAE-based outsourcing website Nabbesh. (Images via Nabbesh) Outsourcing is a new trend on the rise...

Haweya Forsati freelance

U.A.E

IoT devices winning big

The Mosaikx team with their giant cheque. (Image via Future Technology Week) A Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry...

The hive future technology week MEMakersGE

Global

What I know about building an IoT device: Shaun Moore

A stint at Merrill Lynch in Chicago, experience developing mobile apps, and a constant affiliation with technology is what led Dallas-based...

MEMakersGE WIK What I Know

Egypt

Trendak monitors social media analytics in Arabic

Trendak analyses data on social media in three languages including Arabic. (Images via Trendak) Knowing how to ‘read’ social media has alr...

social media monitoring Trendak foreign investment

Egypt

A global fitness platform from the streets of Cairo

The Jumpsuite team, left to right, Nabil Rostom, Norshek Fawzy and Kareem Abou Gamrah. (Images via Jumpsuite) We all know working out...

ehealth fitness Health

Jordan

Hikma Pharmaceuticals launches $30M digital health venture fund in Amman

Hikma Pharmaceuticals has launched a $30 million strategic venture capital fund focused on digital health, therapeutics, and diagnostics...

Hikma Ventures Hikma Pharmaceutical MEMakersGE

Maghreb

3 Tunisian startups take on diaspora remittances

Several Tunisians want to help the diaspora help their country of origin. (Image via Shutterstock) Distance can complicate relationships...

afrikwity linknpay remittance

Saudi Arabia

A made-in-Syria toy that speaks Arabic

This article is an edited crosspost from the MIT Technology Review Arab Edition. The Loujee educational toy isn't as fearsome as...

voice recognition Votek uae

Global

Top 7 takeaways from Amazon's shareholder letter

Amazon is one of the world's biggest companies, and as of last year its biggest retailer. (Image via EPA) Amazon has faced down...

Jeff Bezos Amazon Tips

Maghreb

Kaymu takes the lead in Algerian ecommerce

Kaymu leads Algeria’s budding e-commerce sector. (Images via Kaymu) With its 40 million inhabitants, Algeria’s untapped digital market is s...

AIG Kaymu algeria

Maghreb

Tunisian entrepreneurs find success in reviving local traditions

Children learning mosaic with Mosaikit. (Image via Neptune Mosaic) When Zied Abbis and Amine Draoui decided to preserve their country’s a...

Eco Mornag farm neptune mosaic traditions

Regional

Building a regional education platform: The Coding Circle [Q&A]

Coding is the future. (Images via The Coding Circle) Launched in Dubai in 2014, The Coding Circle is a tech and coding education...

Coding Circle Q&A Coding

Egypt

Making video pay: who's profiting from the boom?

Internet and smartphone growth, especially among youth, play a big role in the flourishing of the video industry. (Images...

Shahid MBC BeIN

Jordan

Cash before delivery, the COD alternative?

The CashBasha founders. (Images via Cashbasha) According to a 2014 Payfortreport, 80 percent of ecommerce transactions in the region...

aramex ventures cash before delivery CashBasha

Egypt

Digitizing the oil and gas industry in MENA

Though the oil and gas sector can be tough, it is not impossible. (Image via theappentrepreneur.com) Tech startups receive all the...

oil and gas app oil and gas Bexel

U.A.E

Crowdsourcing code: why startups are turning to open-source software

A playground for startups and corporations alike. (Image via Linuxuser.co.uk) A startup wants a mobile menu for their new app....

Go Jordan Open Source Association Open source software

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