Wamda

Empowering the Third Billion: Women and the World of Work [Report]

It’s no secret that women are poised to transform the global economy over the next decade. A study by Strategy&, released...

Booz & Company Ecosystem Women

Egypt

How to Invest in Egypt: Tamkeen Takes a Holistic View

There are quite a few people in the Egyptian investment community who talk without delivering results; not so...

Financial management Business Development Expansion

Wamda Announces Partnership with Google for Mix n’ Mentor 2013

Google for Entrepreneurs and Wamda are excited to announced our partnership to foster entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa...

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility Mix n Mentor Ecosystem

Could a New Model for Scaling Handicraft Artisans Transform Egypt’s Economy?

Year-old initiative Anamel Masriya hopes to transform modest Egyptian artisans into independent entrepreneurs, in a bid to boost their ...

Art Ecosystem Egypt

eClub's Weekly Entrepreneurs Brunch

On Saturday, March 9, the eClub is hosting an entrepreneurs brunch, reigniting their weekly gatherings of the young entrepreneurship...

Ecosystem Legal

Building a Hacker Culture in Abu Dhabi

For three days inside New York University Abu Dhabi’s purple campus in the Emirati capital, delegates from universities in sixteen c...

Competitions Ecosystem Social Entrepreneurship

Exclusive Sneak Peek at startupBahrain's New iOS Magazine for Entrepreneurs

A new iPad and iPhone magazine launches tomorrow to showcase, feature, and advise Bahrain’s local startups and e...

Advice Ecosystem Mobile

A Look at Entrepreneurship in Oman: A Chat with Sharifa Albarami [Wamda TV]

In an interview at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Sharifa Albarami, founder of Al Jazeera Technical Solutions & Training and the ...

Coworking Spaces Ecosystem

Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs Project to Launch at the New Arab Woman Forum

It’s no secret that as youth employment in the Middle East rises over the next decade, governments through the region will increasingly l...

Conferences Ecosystem Women

First Startup Weekend Kuwait Unites Local Entrepreneurship Community

Finally, Startup Weekend has made it to Kuwait's small but growing entrepreneurship scene. Startup Weekend Kuwait kicked off a...

Ecosystem Startup Communities Startup Weekend

Accelerating the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in the Arab World [Workshop]

At Silatech's recent Arab Youth & Entrepreneurship conference, speakers worked to bring together the elements that constitute a...

Ecosystem Workshops

Inside 7 of East Africa’s Hottest Tech Hubs

Part 1 of this three-part series offers a look at 7 of East Africa's most popular coworking spaces for tech startups, investors, and...

Accelerators Coworking Spaces Developers

What It Means to Stay Yalla [Pic of the Week]

At the World Economic Forum 2013 in Davos, Switzerland last month, Wamda CEO Habib Haddad gave a talk on the importance of “Thinking A...

Ecosystem Pic of the Week

E-Commerce Site Taw9eel Acquires Kuwaiti Game Rental Startup Digumz

This week, Kuwaiti game rental company Digumz.com was acquired by Kuwaiti platform Taw9eel.com, one of the largest e-commerce sites...

Acquisitions E-commerce Ecosystem

A Review of the Economic Factors that Led to the Arab Spring [Report]

The International Labour Organization, along with UNDP, has released a new report detailing the economic conditions that led up to the Arab...

Ecosystem Education Government

How the Middle East Can Reclaim its Creative Work Culture

“8-5 shifts”, “lunch breaks”, “weekends”, and “vacations” are part of the not-so-wonderful jargon we have inherited from the Industrial Revo...

Advice Ecosystem Education

Arab Youth and Entrepreneurship: Holistic Approaches to Nurturing Local Ecosystems

On February 16-18, 2013, the Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI) and Silatech is hosting a conference on “Arab Youth & E...

Conferences Ecosystem

10 Tips for Moroccan Entrepreneurs from a Maroc Web Awards Co-Founder

In Morocco, the Maroc Web Awards (MWA) have become the event to look to in the web and mobile space- our LeWeb, if you will, bringing...

Advice Conferences Ecosystem

Business Leaders Place Confidence in the Middle East Tech Sector [Report]

Business leaders in the Middle East and North Africa showed the largest increase in confidence in the technology sector in 2012,...

Ecosystem Infographic

Why Emerging Market Entrepreneurs Should Look to Silicon Wadis, Savannahs, and Tigers

In the innovation hubs and entrepreneurship circles of emerging economies, the term “Silicon Valley” is an extraordinarily potent one, evo...

Ecosystem Innovation

Entrepreneurs Flock to Tamkeen Expo in Bahrain

Over 2000 exhibitors and delegates flocked to the inaugural Tamkeen (Labour Fund) Expo in Bahrain earlier this month. Held under...

Conferences Ecosystem

Dispelling the Myth that Arab Women Entrepreneurs Don't Found Scalable Businesses

What do you get when you put an outspoken group of female entrepreneurs under one roof for one day? At the recent Women Entrepreneurs in...

Ecosystem Scaling Women

Announcing the Winner of Wamda's Community Blog Competition

After launching the Community Post function and Competition just last month, Wamda received a great response and some very compelling, ...

Competitions Ecosystem Social Change

Global

Corporate Entrepreneurship Responsibility, by Fadi Ghandour

It is a matter of fact that chronic poverty and unemployment have long been the twin hallmarks of most Arab economies. While poverty...

Social Change Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour

Thought Leadership

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