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Jordan

In Jordan, technology is serving refugees

Rana Kelani is an Iraqi refugee who arrived in Jordan four years ago. In the last year, she has learned how to code, found work and started...

refugees app WATER

U.A.E

Waiting for change: the UAE’s art world

The UAE’s art world has experienced a remarkable evolution in the past few years, with events like Art Dubai, Sikka Art Fair and...

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Lebanon

Lebanese automotive marketplace receives $1.8M seed fund

Lebanese automotive marketplace Seez have received $1.8 million in seed funding from B&Y, Phoenician Funds, and Wamda Capital. Seez...

Seez seed fund B&Y

Morocco

Reinventing Whatsapp for sailors in Morocco

For Soremar Group, the Moroccan company specialized in maritime radio since the 1980s, improving communications and expanding their...

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Yemen

Putting Yemen's crossroads online

Every morning in Sana’a’s Alqa’a square, dozens of unemployed men wait on the side of the street hoping to get work....

Yemen Employment ana mehani

Lebanon

Region’s first shared electric scooter service launched in Lebanon

In a country where public transport has always been a hassle, and where traffic jams are a daily companion, an innovative approach to...

Loop SAL LoopShare Anwar Sukkarie

Morocco

Eco-Heat, the portable slow-cooker from Morocco

Beyond its appearance, which resembles that of a large Maharaja hat or fancy pillow, the Eco-Heat isotherm bag is in fact an ingenious...

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Egypt

Widebot: building Facebook chatbots gets easier

With over 11 million users engaging chatbots currently functioning on Facebook Messenger, most notably Uber’s ride requesting...

Facebook Messenger Arabnet Battles Cairo chatbot

Egypt

Egypt calls for financial inclusions

The Egyptian online payment sector remains heavily hampered by a wide gap between available solutions and the needs of 91 million...

e-Finance fawry Mostafa Elnahhas

Egypt

Arabnet Dubai promotes investments in the MENA's emerging markets

As Arabnet CEO Omar Christidis took his last strides on the Arabnet Digital Summit stage in Dubai and shared some telling numbers, the...

Aqar Map Astrolabs Oman Technology Fund

Palestine

Palestinian fintech startup simplifies online and mobile trading

The lack of online Arabic content has been a driving force for many startups in the Middle East. It happens to be one of the core reasons,...

Economies startup Fintech

Tunisia

The Startup Act bill is opening new doors for Tunisian entrepreneurs

Tunisian entrepreneurs are finally seeing a draft of the Startup Act. The latest is that it’s under negotiation before being...

Startup Act entrepreneurs regulation

Syria

Arageek: the reader comes first, even at our expense

‘Arabic content worth reading’ is the motto many Arabic content platforms hold to against the rise of poor online Arabic...

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Kuwait

Managing Instagram comments got much easier

This article is a crosspost from Nuwait. 27-year-old Kuwaiti Khalid Al-Mutawa is one versatile man. He travels around the world, runs...

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Morocco

Screendy: focusing on product, not customer outreach

What if entrepreneurs no longer needed to look for customers and could just focus on creating the best product for them? This is what...

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Saudi Arabia

Making grocery deliveries is hard on Saudi startups

Plenty of Saudi startups are trying to enter the online grocery shopping and delivery market, but they face many diverse...

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Regional

New startups on the block: May

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups Healthcare Travel

Saudi Arabia

Gorfah and the seven business models

What do you do when you don’t know which business model suits you? This is what Gorfah faced, a Saudi startup working in an $8...

Saudi Arabia ksa Gorfah

Global

Cutting the waste of your supply chain, Throughput [Wamda TV]

With oil prices falling to record lows in the last few years one typical reaction is to look where to cut costs in order to keep businesses...

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Saudi Arabia

Uxbert proves startups can make it in Saudi Arabia

The UAE is considered one of the most important startup hubs in the region. Yet the Saudi Nadeem Bakhsh decided to move his user experience...

Saudi Arabia Uxbert UX

Turkey

Smart waste management, one bin at a time

Creating waste is what humans seem to do best, and we’re getting better at it. By 2025 it is predicted that 4.3 billion city...

Evreka smart waste management Smart Cities

U.A.E

A ‘Qall Out’ to debaters fed up with social media

“Going live is a big shift in how we communicate, and it's going to create new opportunities for people to come together,”...

Qall Out Munathara debates

Regional

4 startups that are changing Maghreb healthcare

A woman fainting at a railway station in Morocco, while waiting for the train that would take her three hours away for dialysis treatment,...

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Saudi Arabia

How Saudi entrepreneurs are trying to change their country #MixNMentor

“We think the future is Saudi Arabia in the region." This is how Walid Faza, partner at Wamda Capital, opened...

Saudi Arabia Mix N Mentor Riyadh

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