Lebanon From Bitcoins to footwear, opportunity drives David El Achkar If you do a quick Google search of David El Achkar’s name, you’re likely to find the following article headlines:... Dana Ballout • 05 October, 2016 Maku Yellow bitcoins
U.A.E Dubai attracts global tech elite to Future Accelerators program Dubai officially launched its Future Accelerators program on Sunday, following a $275 million pledge in August to address seven global... Rachel Williamson • 04 October, 2016 Dubai Future Accelerators Comae Technologies Hyperloop One
Regional Cleantech startups in MENA face many challenges but remain resilient [Report] MENA is experiencing some of the most daunting environmental challenges on earth. Energy and water scarcity coupled with an... Teeb Assaf • 04 October, 2016 Cleantech MEMakersGE Report
Morocco Converting code quicksmart, scalable? Hunched over his laptop in a hotel lobby, empty coffee cups and water bottles piled up on the table beside him, Jaoued Ahmed’s energy... Celeste Hicks • 04 October, 2016 myappconverter morocco
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... Maysaa Ajjan • 04 October, 2016 Jusoor Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Glean syria
Lebanon Don't hide your ideas, Andrew Hyde of Techstars [Q&A] Andrew Hyde, Startup Week director at Techstars, is a globe-trotter with a mission: bridging the gap between community, technology and... Dana Ballout • 03 October, 2016 Andrew Hyde techstars Startup Weekend
Lebanon Making social pay, #MixNMentor Beirut If you had a choice between having a $10 million business and being on the cover of Forbes magazine, or running a $50 million business and... Lucy Knight • 03 October, 2016 lebanon Mix n Mentor Social Entrepreneurship
Egypt Replacing wood with straw, an Egyptian environmental solution Egypt is brewing a number of entrepreneurial projects seeking to provide sustainable solutions for the manufacture of wooden furniture and... Eman Mostafa • 03 October, 2016 Egypt Dawayer MEMakersGE
Tunisia Favizone, the Tunisian big data company that's launching in France What do you do after you’ve found success and sold your startup? Mehdi Khemiri’s answer was to pick a high potential... Aline Mayard • 02 October, 2016 France Business France big data
Scopio aims to become the Getty Images of social media Social media has popularized videography and photography to an extent where 2 to 4 billion images are pushed out every day. Amidst the... Stefania D'Ignoti • 02 October, 2016 Scopio user generated content Media
Egypt 8 lessons for new founders [Opinion] In August I officially completed my first year of being fully dedicated to my food startup Yumamia. It’s been a year of hard... Belal El Borno • 29 September, 2016 Opinion first time founder Yumamia
Palestine Hackathon seeks to boost tourism in Bethlehem Nearly 100 people gathered for Palestine’s first tourism industry-led hackathon in Bethlehem on September 22. The three day event... Christina Ganim • 29 September, 2016 hackathon palestine Bethlehem
Global Startup Watch: It pays to listen, no to networking and solar for Lebanon? Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been reading this week on how to approach networking in the most effective way possible, how we... Lucy Knight • 29 September, 2016 Startup Watch solar power Uber
Morocco The Moroccan doctor who wants to rethink medicine Next year should be the first time a 100 percent Moroccan made medicine will be commercialized. Adnane Remmal, a biology researcher,... Yassine Bakir • 28 September, 2016 biotech drugs Medical
Regional 10 October events for MENA entrepreneurs As the MENA region’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem blossoms and grows, so do the events, conferences, and competitions.... Dana Ballout • 28 September, 2016 Arabnet kuwait startup istanbul
Lebanon Growing organically in Lebanon can be tough Reema Mansour Maamari challenges you to make your own granola. “Why shouldn’t you make your own granola? It’s so easy. If... Lucy Knight • 28 September, 2016 biolicious lebanon Organic Food
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