Jordan Space: the next tech frontier for MENA? An art installation in Amman that could soon have a real-life counterpart. (Image via Sam Wendel) Watch out Elon Musk, a new force is... Samuel Wendel • 17 January, 2016 Oasis Space Ventures Jordan Space Ventures SpaceX
Saudi Arabia Get in the Ring Regional Final Middle East (Saudi Arabia) The most promising startups from the Middle East region will battle each other in the Get in the Ring Regional Final Middle East. Finals... Wamda • 15 January, 2016 final GITR get in the ring
Lebanon Vicente Guallart at BDD: Prototyping the City of the Future Vicente Guallart, the famous spanish architect and former chief architect of the municipality of Barcelona, will be visiting Beirut... Wamda • 15 January, 2016 prototyping CITY OF THE FUTURE bdd
Maghreb Startup Africa Summit in Morocco Startup Africa Summit is a disruptive event designed to bring together entrepreneurs, startup founders, investors, ecosystem leaders from ... Wamda • 15 January, 2016 African Summit conference morocco
Lebanon Speed@BDD sends two startups off to Silicon Valley Two of Speed@BDD’s first six startups are off to Silicon Valley. The accelerator’s CEO Sami Abou Saab said Rational Pixels... Lucy Knight • 14 January, 2016 NAR Rational Pixels Speed@BDD
Maghreb Tunisian incubator Esprit aims to turn engineers into entrepreneurs The first promotion of engineers-entrepreneurs presented health and safety-related startups at Esprit's demo day. (Images via Esprit) If... Aline Mayard • 14 January, 2016 Esprit engineering school
Saudi Arabia Saudi's MyCN makes shopping in China simple "From China to your doorstep... In just a couple clicks". The MyCN homepage. If you found something you wanted on Amazon for $5, but its... Safar Ayad • 14 January, 2016 WorldShip MyCN china
Regional Opportunities in the risk intelligence market [Opinion] A map of countries facing the greatest risk of terrorism. (Image via The Telegraph) One basic law of economics dictates a... Johnny Matta • 14 January, 2016 Risk intelligence data analysis MEMakers
U.A.E Bahrain’s Eat app on fast thinking and changing course The team behind Bahraini startup Eat had a solid plan when they launched in 2014, but when they heard a global player was about to enter... Lucy Knight • 13 January, 2016 Eatapp zomato reservations
Maghreb Tunisia’s media monitoring service, WebRadar, is targeting the Arab world The Innova team is changing Arabic big data. Here they pause at Cogite coworking space's garden. (Images via WebRadar) Upon discovering... Emna Ghariani • 13 January, 2016 online alerts WebRadar tunisia
Jordan Will e-sports be the next industry to level up in MENA? The next generation of star athletes from the Middle East and North Africa recently gave spectators a glimpse of the future of... Samuel Wendel • 13 January, 2016 AFKG Viva Algeria esports
Maghreb Impact of the VoIP ban in Morocco on the economy and entrepreneurship Skype, WhatsApp calls and Viber are gradually becoming unavailable in Morocco. (Image via The Huffington Post) It was hard to miss the... Aline Mayard • 12 January, 2016 SmartVPN Genious morocco
Jordan University of Jordan launches entrepreneurship innovation center A look the University of Jordan's Innovation Center. (Image via UJ News Press Release) The University of Jordan recently announced that it... Samuel Wendel • 12 January, 2016 Injaz UJIC University of Jordan
Lebanon Hind Hobeika discusses manufacturing challenges [Video] Wamda's cofounder and CEO, Habib Haddad interviewed in the video above, Hind Hobeika, founder of Instabeat, from a driverless car in ... Maya Rahal • 12 January, 2016 wearable MEMakers Hind Hobeika
U.A.E Propertyfinder.ae raises $20M from Swedish investors Dubai-based Propertyfinder Group has raised $20 million in capital from Sweden-based Vostok New Ventures, a transaction that Propertyfinder... Antoine Abou-Diwan • 11 January, 2016 Propertyfinder.ae vostok new ventures Investment
Lebanon Alkindy Idea Generation Workshop Want to start your own business but don't know how? Alkindy's Idea Generation Workshop is designed to guide you through the process of b... Wamda • 11 January, 2016 Idea generation Lebanese entrepreneurs Tripoli