Wamda

Lebanon

Tech Talks at the UK Lebanon Tech Hub

The UK Lebanon Tech Talks are weekly 2-hour interactive sessions on tech-industry related topics featuring internationally acclaimed...

UK Lebanon Tech Hub lebanon tech

Regional

Harvard Arab Weekend Startup Pitch Competition

As the largest pan-Arab conference in North America, the Harvard Arab Weekend has prided itself on showcasing a mosaic of perspectives and ...

Startup Pitch Arab Harvard

U.A.E

Global Islamic Economy Summit 2015

In 2013, the inaugural Global Islamic Economy Summit introduced to the world the idea of a cohesive global Islamic Economy. This year's...

GIES Islamic economy Dubai

Maghreb

Can social entrepreneurship save Algeria?

For a few years now, a group of optimistic and resilient Algerian students have worked against all odds to introduce the concept of social...

Algerian Center for Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneuriat social

Jordan

DealMakers 2015

DealMakers is an exclusive annual event, hosted by Endeavor Jordan, bringing top international and MENA investors and the region’s most ...

Dealmakers Jordan Endeavor

Saudi Arabia

Panel discussion: building a startup, find a mentor!

If you are building a startup, you need to find a mentor. This panel discussion will talk about the importance of mentorship in the jouney ...

Panel discussion Saudi Arabia KAUST

Egypt

'Design Build Breathe' Conference in Cairo

In light of the growing concern for ecological and environmental problems, the Design Build Breathe conference aims to showcase the latest ...

Sofitel Cairo El Gezirah Green entrepreneurs Egypt

Lebanon

WeHubs Webinar: support for female web entrepreneurs

WeHubs, in partnership with Berytech, is holding their first webinar on February 15 at the Berytech premises at the Beirut Digital D...

Wehub female entrepreneurs webinar

Watch What Happened at Startup Weekend Casablanca [Wamda TV]

Startup Weekend and Morocco Numeric Fund (MNF) organized a weekend of creative ICT entrepreneurship, which took place from Friday, April 22...

Startup Weekend

Recently launched Egyptian app aims to help eliminate fake media reports

During a heated political debate that took place in Cairo after the events of June 30th 2013, three Egyptians, freshly graduated from...

news Mobile

Regional

Vote NOW for 'Kiron' to help refugees access online education!

Kiron, a global, scalable solution that gives Syrian refugees the opportunity to access higher education and realize their ...

vote Kiron ventures Syrian refugee education

Palestinian entrepreneur looks to use Xbox Kinect for classroom education

[Arabic] Inspired by the Xbox Kinect, a motion sensor by Microsoft developed for the Xbox 360 and redesigned for the upcoming Xbox 1,...

palestine Gamification

Jordanian student entrepreneurs build mobile sign language translator for the deaf [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting, we caught up with Sofiane Abed El Jalil and Ahmed Aboughunam, both students at A...

Mobile

A chat with the student building an emergency-response robot in Jordan [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan, we caught up with Michael Farhat, a student at Al-Balqa' Applied University i...

Technology

A chat with the young entrepreneurs developing hardware to help the deaf hear [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we chatted with student innovators Noor Darras and Soha Tabaki from Jordan U...

Students World Economic Forum Hardware

Building a gamer community for women in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh, we chatted with Tasneem Salim, the cofounder of GCON, a community and annual conference for female gamers a...

Community Mix n Mentor Mobile Gaming

Can Microsoft help scale R&D in the Middle East? [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Charbel Fakhoury, VP of Sales, Marketing, and Services at M...

R&D Technology Ecosystem

A Tour of Wixel Studios in Lebanon: Launching Survival Race [Wamda TV]

Note: Wixel Studios has since changed the game’s name from Abou Ahmad the Arabian (AAA) to Survival Race. Today, Wixel Studios in Lebanon l...

Mobile Gaming Gaming

What Do You Buy Online? We Ask the Crowd [Wamda TV]

After the panel on “Case Studies in E-retail” on Forum Day 2 of ArabNet Beirut, we asked the audience whether they make purchases online, wh...

PayPal Payment Gateways E-commerce

From Bankruptcy to Topping the Arabia500: German Imaging Technologies [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sassan Khatib-Shahidi, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based printer cartridge ...

Failure

How to Prepare Your Business for Rapid Growth

On March 5th, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Dubai are hosting an event in their “How To” series entitled How to Prepare Your Business for ra...

Innovation

Entrepreneur of the Week: Fadi Daou of MultiLane [Wamda TV]

Entrepreneur of the Week Fadi Daou, the founder and CEO of MultiLane SAL, discusses how he built his high-tech company in Lebanon after a...

Entrepreneur of the Week Technology

Entrepreneur of the Week: Walid Sultan Midani of DigitalMania in Tunisia [Wamda TV]

After overcoming a lack of game development skills in Tunisia, Walid Sultan Midani, the founder of DigitalMania, is throwing a dose of...

Entrepreneur of the Week Mobile Gaming Gaming

Gaza Startup Builds Creative Arabic Mobile Apps [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Palestinian entrepreneurs Abed Al Hamid Al Fioumi and Mohammed Belbol started Sanabel to build technical solutions in Palestine, i...

Animation Arabic Content Digital Media

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