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Qatar International Businesswomen Forum 2012

The Qatari Business Women Association in collaboration with Interactive Business Network (IBN) is organizing, for the third year in a row...

Women

Women and Gaming in the Middle East

In April 2012, 1600 women gathered in Saudi Arabia for the second annual all-female Gaming Convention. “There was huge demand and many said ...

Gaming Women

The Way Forward for Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt

The fundamental role of women in Egypt’s revolution and growing its economy was the focus of the event “Co-Creation: Women and Ent...

Ecosystem Education Women

ClinArt's Maha Al-Farhan Strikes a Balance Between Business Success and a Happy Home

Maha Al-Farhan is a pioneer in bringing clinical research to the Middle East. Recently named Entrepreneur of the Year at the third annual...

Women

Entrepreneur of the Week: Yasmine El-Mehairy of Online Parenting Community SuperMama

Yasmine El-Mehairy, speaking from her new office in a co-working space, shares behind-the-scenes details on the process of building...

Entrepreneur of the Week MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition Women

First MENA Business Women's Network Forum Launches Tomorrow and Friday

The groundbreaking MENA Business Women's Network Forum is launching tomorrow and Friday in Dubai- join us! For the first time, 350...

Conferences Women

Advancing Arabic Content for Women: Maroc Numeric Fund Invests $300K in Majalatouki

The Maroc Numeric Fund (MNF) announced last week an investment of 2.6 million Moroccan dirhams (around US$ 300K) last week in Majalatouki,...

Investment Women

Women Entrepreneurs on the Rise in Egypt: How Heba Hosny Hopes to Fund Social Good

As Egyptians stage a sit-in in Tahrir to honor the anniversary of the uprisings that eventually ousted Hosni Mubarak last year, one...

Women

How Women Entrepreneurs Are Driving Business in the Middle East

Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud is an Arabian princess with an entrepreneurial streak. As president and CEO of ALFA International and AL HAMA...

Women Wharton

How the Arab World "Amazon for Moms" is Proving the Value of E-Commerce

Shortly after becoming a mom, Mona Ataya felt the frustration, confusion and challenges most moms and moms-to-be face while trying to...

Women E-commerce

N2V Supports Online Arabic Content for Women with Investment in Mjalati

N2V has stepped up its support for online Arabic content for women, announcing investment in Mjalati, a site that creates online...

Women Arabic Content

Lebanon

Girls got IT: Encouraging girls to choose tech

On the 12th of March 2016, five organizaions dedicated to supporting women in tech will be bringing together 400 female high school ...

DOT girls who code schools

Lebanon

AUF and Berytech accept applications for Francophone women entrepreneurs

The Francophone University Agency (AUF) and Berytech have opened applications for the fourth batch of Francophone women entreprneeurs. Two...

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Maghreb

Women SenseTour: 5 months, 5 countries, 25 changemakers

Sarah Zouak, 25, talks about her project, the Women SenseTour in Muslim Countries, with an air of normalcy. However, the tour...

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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 Women's Report

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor released a report recently detailing the rates of entrepreneurship among women and men around the...

Women Wamda for Women Entrepreneurs W4Women

Women entrepreneurs in Gaza develop new app for the blind [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] “This is the beginning of a shift to smartphones and tablets in Gaza,” says entrepreneur Nidaa Wishah. Taking advantage of the gro...

Women

Advice for women looking to advance in the workplace [Wamda TV]

At the recent World Economic Forum Meeting in Jordan this May, we caught up with Genny Ghanimeh, the founder of Pi Slice, a micro-credit p...

World Economic Forum Women

How women in Saudi Arabia are being integrated into the workforce [Wamda TV]

At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh, we chatted with Khalid AlKhudair the founder of Glowork.net, an online platform for job-seeking women in Sa...

Mix n Mentor Team Programme

The Business Factory Inaugural Event

The inaugural Business Factory event is being organized by global women entrepreneurs community Heels & Deals and will take place on ...

Women

Entrepreneur of the Week: Delphine Edde Co-Founder of Diwanee [Wamda TV]

Four years after being in the business of building online portals for women, Delphine Edde, co-founder of Diwanee, thinks that there is not ...

Arabic Content Digital Media Entrepreneur of the Week

Entrepreneur of the Week: Goktug Okan Oguz of Unnado [Wamda TV]

Goktug Okan Oguz, co-founder of Turkish flash sales and e-commerce platform Unnado, which sells products for future moms and babies, is ...

Daily Deals E-commerce Endeavor

Open Borders, Private Sector Investment, and Women Entrepreneurs Can Tackle Unemployment in the Arab World

On November 13th, leaders at the World Economic Forum in Dubai came together to discuss what can be done in the Arab world to increase...

Advice E-commerce Ecosystem

Tala Al-Ashek Designs Revolt Against Black Abayas in KSA [Wamda TV]

While studying in Jeddah, Tala Al-Ahek was disappointed with the lack of fashion in traditional "abaya" designs, and how it limited the...

E-commerce Women

Weekly Wrap-Up: October 28 - November 01

In all of our coverage of success stories, you will find that building and maintaining strong connections can quickly change the life of...

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