Lebanon Seedstars Beirut 2016 Seedstars World is coming back to Beirut! On October 13 2016, the 10 best startups from Beirut will be invited to pitch in front of an... Wamda • 16 August, 2016
Regional Making the best of a child’s addiction In the 90s, parents hid Gameboys from their children on high shelves and under heavy mattresses. This year, with face-to-screen time at... Dana Ballout • 16 August, 2016 Play My Way children Education
Lebanon Asmahan Zein shares the highlights of her journey [Wamda TV] Asmahan Zein founded and built data management company Infofort in Lebanon after working for 27 years at Aramex. She’s the... Maya Rahal • 16 August, 2016 Asmahan Zein infofort aramex
Regional Mighty Labs Pre-Accelerator Want to make your business idea a reality? The Mighty Labs Pre-Accelerator program in Berlin is accepting MENA applications for its... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 Berlin MENA entrepreneurship
Regional What I know about investing in content: Turi Munthe A little over two years ago, the MENA region witnessed the first big acquisition of a media company. Diwanee, a Dubai-based digital... Maya Rahal • 15 August, 2016 digital content demotix WIK
Regional #MESTVideo Contest Every day, news from the Middle East paints a portrait of chaos and despair. But in the maelstrom of violence and conflict, there are... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 hope middle east Film
Regional Impressions from #MLAbuDhabi: urban food systems track team chat about their solution The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation urban
Regional MIT Media Lab and Wamda Workshop Abu Dhabi 2014: Hind Hobeika of Instabeat The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation Sports
Regional MIT Media Lab and Wamda Workshop Abu Dhabi 2014: Joe Paradiso The MIT Media Lab Abu Dhabi innovation workshop brought together design innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, makers, thinkers, and... Wamda • 15 August, 2016 MIT Innovation Technology
Regional 5 medical solutions startups from MENA Research suggests that the global medical device market will grow by 14 percent between 2016 and 2020. However, VC investment in medical... Lucy Knight • 15 August, 2016 Healthcare medical solutions Slighter
Saudi Arabia Foodics: the Saudis taking on Gulf restaurant giants In Saudi, the food and beverage (F&B) sector is one of the largest in the Gulf. Probably no surprise there, as in MENA food and... Ahmed Gabr • 14 August, 2016 Foodics ksa Alwans
Morocco New Work Class trains Morocco's aspiring entrepreneurs Each ecosystem has its quirks and setbacks. One of Morocco’s was that it lacked a training program for entrepreneurs outside of... Aline Mayard • 14 August, 2016 New Work Lab NWL Training
Egypt The startups mapping Cairo's in between spaces Informality is the rule in Cairo, be it the sprawling extra-legal settlements that form a moat around the city center, forgotten alleys... Rachel Williamson • 14 August, 2016 Cluster Egypt CUIP
Maghreb An IoT craze in Algeria? For the few Algerian startups commercializing Internet of Things (IoT) products, starting out was hard. Just two years ago, the mere... Aline Mayard • 14 August, 2016 makerspaces IoT algeria
Kuwait ArabNet Kuwait 2016 On October 4 and 5, ArabNet is headed to Kuwait for the first time for a 2-day conference focusing on the Kuwaiti and GCC market, while... Wamda • 12 August, 2016
U.A.E ‘Innovation 4 Impact’ Pitch Competition The second edition of the Innovation 4 Impact Competition will take centre-stage at the Global Islamic Economy Summit 2016 (GIES 2016) to... Wamda • 12 August, 2016 Innovation Pitch Competition Dubai