Regional

Creative Chaos' Full Stack Virtual Team, at your service [Exclusive offer]

  Creative Chaos wants to help startups build and manage their products as a technology partner. The tech company, which offers services r...

Wamda • 02 May, 2016

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Egypt

Making video pay: who's profiting from the boom?

Internet and smartphone growth, especially among youth, play a big role in the flourishing of the video industry. (Images...

Eman Mostafa • 02 May, 2016

Shahid MBC BeIN

Palestine

Work Factory builds Ramallah startup community

Work Factory hosted the West Bank's most recent Startup Grind. (Images via Work Factory) You can read Wamda's definitive guide to...

Christina Ganim • 01 May, 2016

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Jordan

Altibbi opens Pandora’s box on MENA’s healthcare questions

From a doctor's office, to your PC to your phone - the changing face of medicine. (Image via Jacqueline Sofia) A young mother in Saudi...

Jacqueline Sofia • 01 May, 2016

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Maghreb

Tiny Tunisian startup cracks open global telco market

Roamsmart helps mobile operators manage their roaming operations. (Image via RCR Wireless) Roaming is a pain for business travelers and a...

Aline Mayard • 01 May, 2016

BizSpark RoamSmart roaming

Saudi Arabia

Know your LLCs from your SPVs in the GCC [Opinion]

Starting a business can involve serious amounts of paperwork - but you've got to get it right the first time. (Image via Coseer) “We’re loo...

Abdulrahman Hammad • 28 April, 2016

JSC joint stock company SPV

Regional

Your definitive list of MENA coworking spaces

This piece has been updated from its original publishing date on July 2013. Without external support, building a successful startup can...

Aline Mayard • 28 April, 2016

Dubai Technology Entrepreneurship Centre (DTEC) The Coworking Café Startup Haus

Egypt

Trendak monitors social media analytics in Arabic

Trendak analyses data on social media in three languages including Arabic. (Images via Trendak) Knowing how to ‘read’ social media has alr...

Eman Mostafa • 28 April, 2016

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Lebanon

Circular 331: where has Lebanon's money gone?

It is said that innovation is an entrepreneur’s best friend.  But in Lebanon a strong second contender has to be the central...

Sophie Rimington-Pounder • 27 April, 2016

Lebanon for Entrepreneurs Berytech Fund Startup Megaphone

Regional

20 MENA startups keeping your car on the road

This is the second part of our week-long look at smarter transport in MENA. Read the first here and the second here. Car sales...

Maysaa Ajjan • 27 April, 2016

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Saudi Arabia

Et3arraf brings traditional Saudi courting online

Et3arraf is a meeting of the ways: old evolving into the new. (Image via Et3arraf) Hundreds of years ago in the Arabian Desert,...

Brooke Anderson • 27 April, 2016

Matchmaking love Et3arraf

Egypt

Space Apps Challenge takes Egyptians from infinity to beyond

Egyptian students, engineers and whizzkids breathed life into their 'moonshot' ideas. (Images via Eduard Cousin) Cairenes were seeking the...

Eduard Cousin • 26 April, 2016

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Palestine

The freelancer life: tips from Gaza's successes

A freelancing workshop in Gaza, run by UAE-based outsourcing website Nabbesh. (Images via Nabbesh) Outsourcing is a new trend on the rise...

Rafat Abushaban • 26 April, 2016

Haweya Forsati freelance

Regional

Edtech and the future of work in MENA

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in the midst of a tremendous inflection point, with the future of the...

Willam Altman • 26 April, 2016

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Global

What I know about building an IoT device: Shaun Moore

A stint at Merrill Lynch in Chicago, experience developing mobile apps, and a constant affiliation with technology is what led Dallas-based...

Archana Menon • 25 April, 2016

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Maghreb

What happens if someone steals your idea?

A month ago a story made the headlines in Algeria: in 2014 the well-known, deep-pocketed media entrepreneur Kamel Haddar allegedly stole...

Aline Mayard • 25 April, 2016

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