U.A.E With new workshops and corporates on board; 2015 Mix N’ Mentor roadshow concludes in Dubai Workshops, mentorship and enthusiasm - it's all there at Mix N' Mentor. Scheduled for December 10 at Hult Business School, Dubai Internet... Wamda • 19 November, 2015 Marketplace Edition mix n mentor dubai Mix n Mentor
U.A.E twofour54 exits four years investment in SAE Institute to CedarBridge Snapshot duing one of the 3D animation courses offered by SAE (image is from the SAE platform) twofour54 announced today its exit from... Maya Rahal • 19 November, 2015 SAE Institute Exit TwoFour54
Lebanon Examining the 'Business to Diaspora' market [Opinion] Editor's note: this is the second of two articles on diaspora engagement. You can read the first one here. The diaspora is more than a... Irene Kapusta • 19 November, 2015 Diaspora engagement Lebanese Diaspora lebanon
Maghreb Algeria to get its first coworking space Coworking and more at Sylabs (Image via Sylabs) The Algerian web community has many brillant tech minds, motivated marketers, and... Aline Mayard • 19 November, 2015 sylabs algeria Coworking Spaces
Egypt Sun rises on Egypt's Silicon Valley The Middle East has long been searching for its own Silicon Valley, but it’s been searching for the wrong ecosystem under the wrong... Rachel Williamson • 19 November, 2015 MEMS semiconductor Sun City
Lebanon Le Wagon deploys first batch of coders in Beirut General manager of Le Wagon El Khoury speaks out (Image via Ayman Farhat) Coding school Le Wagon graduated its first batch of Beirut-based ... Maya Rahal • 18 November, 2015 Le Wagon beirut Coding
Regional Eco and social entrepreneurs meet in Barcelona Enrique de Villamore Martín, director of SCP/RAC, speaks at the the SwitchMed networking panel. (Images via SwitchMed) More than 400 ... Ruba Al-Zu'bi • 18 November, 2015 Social Entrepreneurship SwitchMed
U.A.E The Gamifiers: making business fun The Gamifiers participate in Dubai Lynx We've all been there, dragging ourselves through another long day at work doing routine tasks that... Eman Mostafa • 18 November, 2015 TheGamifiers uae Gamification
U.A.E Young Saudi entrepreneur honored at Takreem’s 2015 awards Khaled AlKhudair receives the Young Entrepreneur award. (Images via Takreem) In honour of his efforts as the founder and CEO of Glowork,... Pamela Kesrouani • 17 November, 2015 AlKamandjati Palestinian Happy Child Center TAKREEM
Regional Intel's ChallengeME IoT competition announces winners Intel's ChallengeME competition showcased a diversity of IoT innovation at Berytech in Beirut. (Images via Lina Mubarak) A logistics... Maya Rahal • 17 November, 2015 ChallengeME IoT MEMakers
Egypt Lessons from the Tahrir Academy shutdown Tahrir Academy first announced their closure earlier this summer. News that Egyptian online learning center Tahrir Academy was... Eman Mostafa • 17 November, 2015 nafham legislations close down
Regional Turning to technology to preserve cultural sites Syria's Palmyra has been a subject of looting and destruction. (Image via Shutterstock) This article is an edited crosspost from the MIT... MIT Technology Review • 16 November, 2015 Nframes Sketchfab Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage
Regional Geeks on a Plane + PreMoney MENA in Bahrain If you're in Bahrain in December, then you're in for the first PreMoney MENA event. From December 5 to December 15, 500 Startups and a ... Wamda • 16 November, 2015
Regional Majority of UAE residents prefer to be entrepreneurs if given the choice [Report] (Image via Startupist) More than half of the UAE’s residents say they would like to be entrepreneurs, according to a survey conducted b... Antoine Abou-Diwan • 16 November, 2015 YouGov bayt.com MENA
Egypt Egypt pill reminder app sets sights on Germany Despite having perfect health, Ahmad ElKaragy always dreaded having colds for one reason: he often forgot to take his medication... Ahmed Gabr • 16 November, 2015 MEMakers Healthcare Egypt
Regional The ‘ease’ of doing business in MENA [Infographic] Starting a business and running it isn’t easy. It becomes less so when the economy in which you want to start the business... Lucy Knight • 15 November, 2015 Doing Business Report Oman Yemen