Wamda

Lebanon

Lebanese entrepreneurs introduce on demand waterless car washing

Blink My car train their Lebanese bikers for their waterless car wash services. (Image via Blink My Car) One cup of water. Apparently...

Drought Waterless car washing greensteam

Lebanon

Arab Arcade Game Jam

Arab Arcade's next 48-hour Game Jam is taking place on the weekend of May 6-8 at the Beirut Digital District in Beirut, Lebanon. If you’re ...

Arab Arcade game jam lebanon

Regional

Changing the way MENA moves

Smart transportation has the potential to change many things in modern life, from the very roads people use to get to work to the way whole...

HERE Swiss RE Secure Drive Company

Egypt

Space Apps Challenge takes Egyptians from infinity to beyond

Egyptian students, engineers and whizzkids breathed life into their 'moonshot' ideas. (Images via Eduard Cousin) Cairenes were seeking the...

NASA Space Apps Challenge MEMakersGE Bazaar in Egypt

Egypt

Honeymoon over for Uber, Careem in Egypt?

A sudden surge in higher prices for Uber and Careem has taken Egyptians by suprise. (Image via Careem) The Egyptian honeymoon may be over...

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Egypt

The solution to Cairo gridlock is already here [Video]

Smart car use in Egypt is not a fantasy, fuelled by visions of Google cars and Tesla Model 3s, it's a real possibility. Ismail...

Raye7 smart transportation Ismail Zohdy

Egypt

Startups want to tackle Egyptian health, but lack money

Ahmed Abu ElHaz CEO of Shezlong pitching at BDL2015 accelerate in Beirut. (Image via Shezlong) Egypt is fertile ground for...

Otlob Doctor MEMakersGE shezlong

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

Global

What I know about space: Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom

Emeline Paat was in Beirut in March experimenting with plastic bag-based insulation systems for refugee tents. (Image via Rachel...

Virgin Galactic XCOR Space Adventures

Palestine

Palestinian tech bridges Arabic language online gaps

The development of the Arabic dialect search engine was a team effort. (Images via Curras). Every day millions of Arab speakers use social...

arabic search engine Arabic dialect Curras

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

U.A.E

Festival of Media MENA 2016 in Dubai

Building on the success of the 2015 event, the Festival of Media MENA will return to Dubai on April 20, 2016, to celebrate the best media...

speakers award Festival of media MENA festivals

Syria

Syrian entrepreneur invents capsule to replace water chlorination

From the left: Louay Otba between cofounders of Jusoor Aziza Osman and Dania Ismail (Image via Louay Otba). Syrian...

disinfecting tablets water pollution NobelChemist

U.A.E

The challenges and possibilities of IoT, big data

The first day of Future Tech Week, busy. (Images via Future Tech Week) The latest buzzwords in technology - big data, Internet of Things...

future technology week GISEC IoT

Regional

MENA’s fab labs and the fourth industrial revolution

We are in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution in human history. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4ID) is an economic...

hackerspace MEMakers Job Creation

Jordan

Fintech startup Liwwa raises $2.3M

Amman-based fintech startup Liwwa has closed a $2.3 million round led by Silicon Badia’s Badia Impact Fund. DASH Ventures and...

Sameh Toukan beehive VentureFin

U.A.E

Understanding microfinance in MENA

A wall for commitments to financial inclusion. (Image via Microcredit Summit Campaign) “The Arab world has the lowest level of f...

Arab Monitary Fund 18th Microedit summit abu dhabi

Jordan

Jordan gets a new startup accelerator with BIG by Orange

Jordan’s startup factory just powered-up another assembly line. In December 2015, Orange Jordan, which is part of the multinational...

Support Incubator Accelerators

Egypt

Cosplay, cake pops and robots at Maker Faire Cairo

Electronics manufacturers were the main event at the Maker Faire in downtown Cairo’s Greek Campus, as most of this year’s...

Maker Faire Cairo MEMakersGE Integreight

U.A.E

What you've missed at Droidcon 2016 in Dubai

Droidcon attendees at the Impact Hub offices. (Images via Droidcon) Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, Alexa, made a special appearance a...

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Regional

Prepare for lift off with Wamda and SpaceX

Wamda has announced a partnership with American aerospace manufacturer and industry leader SpaceX. Starpreneurs aims to spur the interest...

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Kuwait

What do open-source software development and entrepreneurship have in common?

Creating an open source world. (Image via foodengineeringmag.com) This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. Around 23 percent of...

GitHub Brilliant Lab KBSoft

U.A.E

Ecommerce Show Middle East 2016 [Discount code!]

In 2015, the ecommerce industry in MENA reached $15 billion dollars. Despite these numbers, the sector continues to experience persistent...

MENA topics ecommerce show 2016

Lebanon

Equipping the next generation of Lebanese girls with STEM

Event participants take a group photo during the closing ceremony of the event (Image via Girls Got IT) "I used to think technology was...

STEM Girls Got IT MEMakersGE

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