Startup Weekend NEXT Baghdad shows what's possible As a co-organizer of the first and second installments of Baghdad Startup Weekend, I’ve learned first-hand how challenging it can be to c... Marwan A. Jabbar • 18 February, 2014 startup weekend next iraq Startup Weekend
Revolutionizing job training from Nairobi to Amman with SMS The trouble with skill trainings in Kenya is that the workers who need it the most don’t have time to attend, Evanna Hu tells me o... Nina Curley • 17 February, 2014 SMS Mobile
Regional Most workers in the Middle East would prefer to launch a business Due to high unemployment rates in the Arab region, more people than ever are launching their own businesses, hoping to create their own... Reine Farhat • 17 February, 2014 bayt.com entrepreneurship Report
3 reasons to develop a strategic partnership Entrepreneurs tend to insist on doing everything related to their startup themselves, often without realizing that there are solutions that... Muhanad Sabha • 17 February, 2014 strategic partnership
Mobile app generator wins the day at Startup Weekend Amman Hoards of aspiring entrepreneurs gathered at the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Building in Amman this past weekend for Startup Weekend – a 5... Hayden Pirkle • 17 February, 2014
Algerian entrepreneurs imagine a new future at Fikra Conference One could be tempted to compare Fikra to an Algerian TEDx, yet the event, which draws it name from the word idea in Arabic, debuted a u... Aline Mayard • 16 February, 2014
West Bank and Gaza startups pitch together for the very first time in Amman Until this past Thursday, startups in the West Bank and Gaza had not met under the same roof to pitch to investors. At Oasis500 in... Hayden Pirkle • 16 February, 2014 gaza sky geeks Oasis500
Weekly Wrap-Up: February 09-13 This week on Wamda was marked by mobile applications news from around the Arab World; starting with Turkey where Gram Games got $600,000... Wamda • 14 February, 2014 Weekly Wrap-Up
Morocco's two largest classified sites announce a merger Nestled in the Schibsted Media Group’s Q4 financial statement is some very interesting news for the online classified ads market ... Stephanie Nour Prince • 14 February, 2014 morocco
Arabic weather portal outshines Yahoo in Jordan, reigns in Saudi Arabia ArabiaWeather.com is not the company that it was even just nine months ago. Since its early days as JordanWeather.jo, the company been a... Nina Curley • 13 February, 2014 ArabiaWeather
Lebanon's Re-H2O team tackles water scarcity in the Arab world At Intel and Injaz al-Arab's Sci-preneurship Innovation Camp this past July, six young Lebanese students found an innovative, inexpensive... Maya Rahal • 13 February, 2014 Intel Injaz al Arab competition
Can this Bahraini couple's startup help fight childhood obesity in the Gulf? Yoga, Team Awesome, Muay Thai, Zumba, and Parkour all sound like classes you can take at a gym that combines fun with fitness. This is... Leena AlOlaimy • 13 February, 2014 child obesity obesity children
Zee3 Enta provides a forum for expression for Egyptians of every persuasion Egypt’s revolution, beginning January 25, 2011, revolutionized citizen journalism. Since then, several initiatives have launched that seek ... Eman Mostafa • 12 February, 2014 Citizen Journalism Egypt
Global Jordan's Bitcoin Meetup Group weighs in on the cryptocurrency's recent crash In the world of the internet, a bug is not something to take lightly. So Monday, when MTGox, the first Bitcoin exchange site... Reine Farhat • 12 February, 2014 Bitcoin
Iranian developers gamify a 1,000 year-old poem The story of how Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh first met Hossein Jalali, his partner at their new startup, GameGuise, is “a MAKE Business ... Nina Curley • 11 February, 2014 Gaming
TIEC incubator now accepting applications The Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) is calling for applications to its next incubation cycle starting in April... Wamda • 11 February, 2014 technology innovation and entrepreneurship center tiec start it
