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Mobilizing for Gaza: Creating Jobs for Palestinians

The genocide in Gaza is an assault on every facet of life and society. Entire sectors have been decimated, universities razed, and...

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Palestine

Palestinian entrepreneurs are facing the disastrous repercussions of war

Monthly VC investment deals were transformed into data on the numbers killed and wounded. The number of startups being founded were...

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Palestine

Regional collaboration is the lifeline for Palestine’s entrepreneurs

Rateb H.Rabi is the CEO of Intersect Innovation Hub, a business incubator serving startups in Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron and soon...

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Palestine

Palestinian innovation is going global and its first stop is Dubai

Rateb H.Rabi is the managing director of Intersect Innovation Hub, a business incubator serving startups in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Nablus,...

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Can Palestine become a birthplace for impact-driven ventures?

Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. In a recent...

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Palestine

What does the future generation of Palestinian startups look like?

Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. Last month,...

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Palestine

Does Palestine have investment-ready startups?

Majd Zghyer is the strategy officer at uMake, an entrepreneurship support organisation (ESO) based in Ramallah, Palestine. So far this...

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Palestine

EIB backs Palestinian startups with a $50 million grant to Bank of Palestine

The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced a $50 million grant to the Bank of Palestine to support the Palestinian private...

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Kenz closes pre-Series A funding round

Palestine-based lingerie e-commerce startup Kenz has closed a six-figure pre-Series A funding round led by Ibtikar Fund with...

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Liquid assets: Conserving Palestine’s water supplies

In the Palestinian territories, severe water shortages have become an unfortunate norm – while Israelis living in nearby Jewish...

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Palestine

Overcoming barriers of women-led entrepreneurship in Palestine

Ghassan Amayra is the co-founder of Palestine-based MENACatalyst and Leila Farraj is the digital content strategist at...

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Palestine

In conversation with Ahmed Hashlamon of Mashvisor

Mashvisor was founded by Peter Abualzolof and Mohammed Jebrini in 2014 with the aim of providing real estate investment data analysis to...

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Palestine

Is the Palestinian diaspora key to enabling local startups?

Diyala Abdlrasul and Ghassan Taha Amayra are the co-founders of MENACatalyst The Palestinian plight is not a foreign...

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In conversation with Christina Ganim of Kenz

Christina Ganim founded Kenz with her colleague and friend Nicola Cuoco. The e-commerce website, founded in Palestine, sells underwear to...

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Palestine

Ibtikar Fund invests in Palestine's Safra

Palestine’s Ibtikar Fund has announced a new investment in Safra, a Ramallah-based online travel platform for travel agents in the...

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Palestine

This is how Dawsat is reinventing the Middle Eastern diet

Mas Watad graduated from Al-Quds University as a nutrition specialist in 2003 and decided that, rather than simply raising people’s...

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Palestinian startups carving their ways around barriers to success

Running a startup in Palestine is no easy task. In addition to the fact that over 90 percent of startups anywhere fail, with financial...

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Palestine

Alwaleed injects $62M in $500M Series E funding Careem

(Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include the new capital injection of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and the announcement...

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Regional

MENA social enterprises grow in spite of deep-rooted challenges and little support [Report]

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) in the Arab world stands on a paradox: It has every reason to thrive and yet every excuse to die. This is...

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3D printed hope: new limbs for Syrian refugees

When Ibrahim Mohammad started selling juice in the streets of Lebanon at the age 12 to support his family, he made $0.5 a day. Back then,...

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Palestine

Social Dice helps navigate rough waters of MENA hiring process

When you ask founder Saed Shela what the secret is to Social Dice’s success, he will say it is about making the hiring process smart...

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Regional

Social entrepreneurship in MENA: always the bridesmaid, never the bride [Opinion]

You go up to the stage to pitch a social enterprise with the hope that tomorrow is better than today. You hit all the right spots:...

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Gaza hackathon solves ‘lady problems’

With engaging spirit and thrill, 60 participants took part in the first Lady Problem Hackathon in Gaza last week. The event was for...

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Palestine

Crowdfunding as a business model? Taita Leila in Palestine says yes

The idea of crowdfunding a fashion line is a familiar concept to Western fashion brands but few use the technique as the only sales method...

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