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The Art of Pitching

The Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program will be kicking off 2013 with a new workshop titled The Art of Pitching. Rabih El Khodr of STANDUP!...

Pitching

Maysalward Localizes New Mobile Game ShaqDown for the Arab World

A new battle is being fought in the Middle East, thanks to Jordanian gaming company Maysalward. Basketball legend Shaquille...

Mobile Mobile Gaming Gaming

#truDubai: A Recruiting Unconference

On January 16, 2013, Shelter Dubai is hosting #truDubai: A Recruiting Unconference from 9am-5pm. Following the success of previous #tru ...

Advice Conferences Programme

New Entrepreneur Roundtable at Shelter Dubai

On January 20, 2013, Shelter Dubai will be hosting their second “New Entrepreneur Roundtable” focused on creative entrepreneurs working in t...

Conferences Design Fashion

Wellnesia to Indulge Dubai with New Spa and Beauty Hub

In the Arab world, the web has been buzzing lately with sites offering flash sales, low prices and online booking, often for restaurants,...

Digital Marketing Ecosystem Health & Beauty

Protecting the Community and Environment: Kenya’s Athi River Steel [Case Study]

This is the sixth installment of a series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. As the Kenyan economy has e...

Aureos Aureos Case Studies

Arabic Cooking Community Shahiya Expands into English, Considers Tablet App

Fresh off of a round of Series A investment from MEVP, Shahiya is looking into new growth models as it continues to tackle the...

Arabic Content Food & Beverage Mobile

ICT Use and Social Network Adoption in the Arab World [Report]

The Madar Research and Development Center, based in Dubai, recently released this report on Arab ICT Use and Social Network Adoption, s...

Digital Media Mobile Technology

Facebook's 25 Most Popular Games: Lessons for Arab Developers

Facebook just announced the 25 most popular social games in 2012. Music trivia game SongPop by US developer FreshPlanet tops the chart,...

Facebook Gaming Mobile Gaming

PACE Civic Engagement Grant Application Deadline

The PACE (Promoting Active Citizen Engagement) program is soliciting grant applications from Lebanese NGOs to design and implement...

Government Social Change

Keeping Business in the Family: Peru's Iasacorp International [Case Study]

This is the fifth installment of a series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. Iasacorp International, f...

Aureos Aureos Case Studies Expansion

How to Register a Branch of a Foreign Company in Lebanon [Legal Advice]

This series on registration and incorporation in Lebanon comes to Wamda courtesy of Michel Ghanem of Khalaf Law Firm and Lebanon Offshore, b...

Advice Legal

Top 10 Tips from Wamda’s Mix n’ Mentor Events in Amman, Beirut & Dubai

During this month’s Wamda Mix N’ Mentor (MnM) across the Arab world, our team traveled to Amman, Beirut, and Dubai to bring stellar men...

Conferences Ecosystem Fadi Ghandour

Pivoting to Solar Energy: India's Hind High Vacuum Company [Case Study]

This is the fourth installment of a new series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. Launched in 1965, the ...

Aureos Aureos Case Studies Business Development

Building a 2020 Vision of Entrepreneurship in Lebanon: Part 2

As I discussed in my last post, building an entrepreneurship ecosystem that consistently empowers small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs)...

Accelerators Advice Ecosystem

Failure, Timing, and Monetization: A Chat with Ihsan Jawad, Founder of Zawya [Wamda TV]

At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last month, Ihsan Jawad of Honeybee Tech Ventures discusses how to move forward after failure, how to know ...

Advice Conferences Ecosystem

Wamda TV Face-Off, Souq. com and MarkaVIP [Wamda TV]

Watch an unedited version of our first "Face Off!" that just aired on Wamda TV! We are hosting two of the biggest names in MENA e-commerce...

E-commerce Ecosystem Face Off

Reviving a Dying Brand: Indonesia's Yupi Indo Jelly Gum [Case Study]

This is the third installment of a new series on Wamda featuring companies in emerging markets around the world. Founded in Indonesia in...

Aureos Expansion Food & Beverage

Circumvention Tech Summit in Tunis

OpenITP and the Information Security Coalition (ISC) will be hosting the Circumvention Tech Summit in Tunis, Tunisia from November...

Censorship Conferences Corruption

Spotify’s Axel Bringeus at Webrazzi 2012

At the Webrazzi conference earlier this month Axel Bringéus, Director of International Growth at Spotify, discussed Spotify’s goal to in...

Conferences Digital Media E-commerce

Kiva, Silatech Launch Microsite for Micro Lending in the Arab World

After partnering to create Kiva Arab Youth in April of this year, Kiva and Silatech have just launched a “microsite” in Arabic alongside a ...

Arabic Content Crowdfunding Demystifying E-Commerce

The Hot Top Models of E-Commerce, CoE E-Commerce: Part 4 [Wamda TV]

In Part 4 of our panel on the Hot Top Models of E-Commerce at our June CoE E-Commerce event, moderator Nina Curley, Editor In Chief of Wa...

COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences

The Hot Top Models of E-Commerce, CoE E-Commerce: Part 3 [Wamda TV]

In Part 3 of our panel on the Hot Top Models of E-Commerce at our June CoE E-Commerce event, moderator Nina Curley, Editor In Chief of Wa...

COE CoE E-Commerce Demystifying E-Commerce

The Hot Top Models of E-Commerce, CoE E-Commerce: Part 1 [Wamda TV]

In Part 1 of our panel on the Hot Top Models of E-Commerce at our June CoE E-Commerce event, moderator Nina Curley, Editor In Chief of ...

COE CoE E-Commerce Conferences

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