Lebanon Lebanese designers converge to the Disrupt!/Design!/ ideathon Disrupt!/Design!/ is a focused event organized by Mideast Creatives where designers from a wide variety of fields come together to bring... Wamda • 08 April, 2015 disrupt design Mideast Creatives zoomal
Jordan Innovative thoughts at the Arab youth Employment Conference in Jordan The Arab youth Employment Conference: Promoting Innovative Solutions to Longstanding Challenges, will be held from April 28-30,2015, in... Wamda • 08 April, 2015 International Youth Foundation Silatech Arab youth Employment Conference
Egypt Egypt’s North African Summit discusses regional media challenges The North African Media Summit will be held from June 8 to 10, 2015, at the Movenpick Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. A panel of speakers will be... Wamda • 08 April, 2015 North African Media Summit
Lebanon Data key to the growth of the MENA gaming industry [Wamda TV] For the gaming industry of the Middle East to grow, developers need to expand to other markets. Equally, the region needs to present a... Lucy Knight • 08 April, 2015 MEGA 2015 gaming industry
Maghreb Girls in Tech to launch in Morocco to support women entrepreneurs When I asked Fatim-Zahra Biaz to give me a name of a Moroccan woman tech entrepreneur, she struggles. “This is why we’re launching Girls ... Aline Mayard • 08 April, 2015 Girls in Tech women entrepreneurs New Work Lab
Regional 6 of the most innovative Muslim startups for 2015 This article is a cross-post with Ummah Wide, a US-based digital media startup that focuses on stories and the culture of the Islamic... Ummah Wide • 07 April, 2015 growmada narwi executive muslim
Jordan Not playing around: Jordanian startup Yaqut pursuing Arabic ebook market with gamified app After years of explosive growth, ebooks in English-language markets finally appear to be leveling off and stabilizing as an integral part... Samuel Wendel • 07 April, 2015 Ammar Mardawi Yaqut ebooks
U.A.E Designer Fatma Almulla merges Western fashion with Emirati culture Emirati entrepreneur Fatma Almulla has developed her own unique style in the world of design and creativity and crowned it by launching... Pamela Kesrouani • 06 April, 2015 uae Fashion
Palestine Why this high-fashion startup is prioritizing Palestine ElMuda's founders Ruba Abdulhadi (left) and Badea Jaber. High fashion is big business in the Middle East. In fact, the Arab region is one... Rachel McArthur • 06 April, 2015 elmuda palestine Fashion
Global GoNabit’s cofounders reunite to embark on a new journey Having been a part of Dan Stuart and Sohrab Jahanbani’s team back when they cofounded GoNabit, the first online group buying website... Reine Farhat • 06 April, 2015 livingsocial gonabit Q&A
Lebanon Art meets architecture at design startup UV Lab Khan Bar Restaurant: UV Lab's first comprehensive project This article is part of a partnership with Dreammatcher and AltCity. UV... Abdulghani Kataya • 05 April, 2015
Maghreb How Droidcon and Google Developers Group are pushing Tunisia's economic development A few weeks ago, 1,000 geeks gathered for the fourth Tunisian edition of Droidcon, the yearly conference dedicated to Android developers -... Aline Mayard • 05 April, 2015 Taher Mestiri Droidcon google developers group
Global droidcon Dubai 2015 [Limited free tickets] droidcon is a global developer conference series and a network focusing on the best of Android. droidcon Dubai 2015 will be happening on... Wamda • 04 April, 2015 android Dubai
U.A.E Dubai’s The Luxury Closet secures $2.2m in VC funds Dubai’s The Luxury Closet, an online platform buys and sells pre-owned luxury goods on consignment, has secured $2.2 million USD of its S... Antoine Abou-Diwan • 03 April, 2015 Kunal Kapoor The Luxury Closet investement
Regional Womena, solving the gender imbalance of the region’s angel investors “We do not want a mentality of men versus women, but rather a comprehensive mentality for knowledge sharing between the two genders i... Pamela Kesrouani • 02 April, 2015 Womena MENA Angel Investment
Lebanon 5 things I learned from making a video game in 30 hours Sten Selander of Media Evolution (Sweden) briefs Arabic Game Jam participants As a kid, I had two main hobbies: drawing and playing video... Omar Al Fil • 02 April, 2015 video games arabic game jam MENA Games