Jordan Rebootkamp's first wave of refugee coders in Jordan After fleeing from war torn Taiz, Yemen six months ago, Rwaida Almehanni found herself feeling aimless in Jordan. The 27-year-old wanted to... Samuel Wendel • 08 September, 2016 Rebootkamp Jordan refugees
Global Startup Watch: a Skype ‘Slack’, lazy leaders, and investors’ reading habits The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Maya Rahal • 08 September, 2016 Startup Watch Slack Skype
Palestine Summer startups: entrepreneurs nurture Gaza's next generation With school summer vacations coming to an end, August witnessed a peak in the number of events targeting children in the Gaza... Rafat Abushaban • 07 September, 2016 Gaza palestine Gaza Kidpreneur
U.A.E Expo 2020 Dubai allocates over $1.36 billion of its spend to SMEs Expo 2020 Dubai has announced that it will dedicate 20 percent of its total direct and indirect spend, to local and international... Maya Rahal • 07 September, 2016 Expo 2020 Dubai
U.A.E MENA gets aviation incubator Intelak The UAE launched its first aviation-oriented incubator today for entrepreneurs wanting to disrupt the travel sector. Emirates Group, in... Maya Rahal • 06 September, 2016 Intelak MEMakersGE Incubator
Morocco Afrimarket raises $11M for regional expansion Moroccan entrepreneur Rania Belkahia has raised 10 million euros (US$11 million) for ecommerce platform Afrimarket, which targets the... Aline Mayard • 06 September, 2016 fundraising africa Afrimarket
Kuwait The 4 stages of your startup journey: Introduction This is an edited crosspost from Nuwait. Every startup journey is unique in the time it is created, the circumstances in which it... Haider Al-Mosawi • 06 September, 2016 sirdab lab Nuwait
Saudi Arabia Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: challenges and opportunities [Podcast] This podcast was previously published by Wamda Capital. After the launch of their podcasts in English, featuring talks with... Abdulghani Kataya • 06 September, 2016 Wamda Capital Fadi Ghandour ksa
U.A.E Attracting foreign investment with changing legislation, UAE's bankruptcy law The UAE has approved a draft law on bankruptcy, further cementing its place as a regional hub for startups. In a tweet on Sunday,... Lucy Knight • 05 September, 2016 bankruptcy uae
Egypt What I know about Egypt's sluggish investment: Wael Amin It might be normal for a country of more than 90 million to have a ton of entrepreneurs planning events around promoting even more ideas,... Eman Mostafa • 05 September, 2016 Sawari Ventures Wael Amin Egypt
Regional 8 MENA startups dive into debt - lending that is Taking on debt can be inevitable, be it to keep a startup ticking over until you can secure a funding round or to pay for medical bills.... Rachel Williamson • 05 September, 2016 Fintech VentureFin MoneyFellows
U.A.E Redefining cities, the human touch Marwa al-Sabouni, an architect from Homs, said in her book The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria, that “the... Lucy Knight • 05 September, 2016 MIT Media Lab uae urban planning
U.A.E Mumzworld launches Arabic app Parenting ecommerce site Mumzworld has launched an Arabic app, a move they say is a first in the Middle East. The app includes more than... Rachel Williamson • 04 September, 2016 Mumzworld ecommerce
Global Learning from failure? Jordan teens ready to launch again [Wamda TV] It’s been a long time coming, but according to their latest statements the app Aidmaid is soon to launch. Aidmaid, which... Rami Deeb • 04 September, 2016 Jordan Saudi Arabia aidmaid
Egypt Egypt startup eyes global industrial IoT Spimesense Labs was born from corporate sluggishness: two friends were working at Ericsson when it was trying to work out just how big this... Rachel Williamson • 04 September, 2016 SpimeSenseLabs Egypt big data
Lebanon Wamda and AUB organize their first hackathon Experimentation and evolution are best nourished within the walls of university campuses. Lebanon is no exception. In this context... Wamda • 02 September, 2016 AUB Hackathon hackathon aub
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