Wamda

Syria

Is there any hope for Syria’s startups?

It has been 12 years since the civil war in Syria devastated the country and its economy. What was once a promising middle income country...

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Syria

The challenges facing Syrian entrepreneurs

Since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, more than 5.7 million people have fled the country mainly to Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq while...

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Syria

Three teams won in Startup Weekend Homs

Over three days, and starting April 20, 2018, Startup Weekend Homs team held a Techstars Startup Weekend event at Jouri Hall in Al-Malaab...

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Lebanon

Four winning teams at Jusoor’s fourth Entrepreneurship Competition for Syrian startups

Four teams were awarded at Jusoor’s fourth annual entrepreneurship competition and bootcamp for Syrian startups in Beirut. The...

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Syria

Startup Weekend Homs

Techstars Startup Weekend Homs is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of...

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Lebanon

Jusoor Entrepreneurship Competition 2018

Jusoor opened up registration for its fourth annual Entrepreneurship Competition this month. The competition is open for application...

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Syria

Using tech to rebuild a hospital: the story of Dr. Rola Hallam

Many people hope to change the world but very few actually do. Rola Hallam is a British-Syrian doctor. She studied Medicine in 1997 at...

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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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Syria

Votek and Loujee secures $1M investment

Votek Inc, developer of Arabic speech recognition software, governmental intelligent assistants and the first Arabic smart toy (Loujee)...

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Lebanon

Syrian entrepreneurs raise their voices at Jusoor

“War is always louder, but we want to raise the voices of youth and entrepreneurship”. This is how Ahmad Bayram, managing...

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Lebanon

Innovate Education

Innovate Education is a 3-day social entrepreneurship competition. In this competition, Lebanese and Syrian university students will...

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Lebanon

Jusoor Entrepreneurship Competition

Registration for Jusoor’s third annual Entrepreneurship Competition has opened to all Syrian entrepreneurs looking to develop...

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Syria

Off-the-grid communication reassures loved ones during war [Q&A]

In Syria, after a bomb goes off, phone lines go down for at least 30 minutes leaving panicked families without a means to check...

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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...

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Syria

Syrian inventor on his journey of making a solar-powered washing machine [Q&A]

Twenty-two-year old Syrian inventor Yaman Abou Jeib has the entrepreneurship community buzzing over him, and for good reason too. Aside...

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Syria

Artificial intelligence startup wins at Jusoor competition

Arabot, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to build online Arabic chatbots, won first place at Jusoor’s third annual...

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Syria

10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation

“Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the...

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Syria

Startup Weekend Damascus: here are the winners!

Tabbakh Rou7o, an app that matches home cooks with customers seeking affordable meals, snagged the first prize at Startup Weekend Damascus...

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Syria

Startup Weekend Youth Of Damascus

Despite all the hurdles and challenges facing Syrians during the past few years, a group of enthusiastic innovators managed to organize a...

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Syria

Wikilogia: The Syrian NGO that brought open source learning to Damascus

As the nearly six year war raged on in Syria, hundreds of entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts were quietly thriving in Damascus. They are...

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Syria

Code your way up: Syrian startups teach code in Arabic

As millions of Syrians fleeing a brutal war struggle to integrate into new countries, one barrier stands out above the rest:...

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Syria

Syrian hardware startup Daraty dodging country's challenges

Two engineering students in Syria’s capital are overcoming the enormous challenges in their war-torn country to launch Daraty, an...

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Syria

High risk, high reward: Mag Optics wants to change the way we see

Biotech is a high risk, high cost, high reward world. It's one that Mag Optics, a London-based startup founded by a Syrian...

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Syria

Syrians seek refuge in tech

For a while, it seemed that the Syrians were running out of options. For the fourth year in a row since 2012, the UN reported a steep...

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