Regional

Synthesis and community: how MENA Game participants plan to boost the gaming industry

The MENA region is one of the fastest growing gaming markets in the world - for game developers - and is expected to reach $3.2 billion in...

Stephanie Nour Prince • 30 March, 2015

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Lebanon

How ecommerce is breathing new life into an established offline toy business

If you happen to be living in or visiting Lebanon, you will have noticed the large number of malls that cropped up in recent years, from...

Reine Farhat • 11 March, 2015

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Lebanon

How putting her kids first led this Lebanese entrepreneur to launch a startup

Life’s daily struggles make it easy to forget how hard it is to be a mother, let alone a working one. Lebanese Ingrid Salloum,...

Reine Farhat • 18 March, 2015

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Lebanon

Access to funding for Lebanese startups is looking up

Obviously a lot more than loose change is going to be availalbe. (Image via Lucy Knight) Things are certainly looking up for the coffer...

Lucy Knight • 05 March, 2015

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Lebanon

Beirut born Campus Society on the hunt for Series A funding

When you have a Facebook account you’d think there would be little else forcing you to join another social network. Well, apparently F...

Lucy Knight • 26 February, 2015

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Lebanon

How can Arab women empower themselves to lead? 10 inspiring quotes from #NAWF2015

Left to right: Habib Haddad, Rana Salhab, Jihad Azour, Youssef Hamidaddin Al Iktissad Wal Aamal Group and Al Hasnaa Magazine organized...

Maya Rahal • 03 March, 2015

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Regional

When looking for investment, you need the law on your side

At the dawn of a new year, and potentially a new era of investment in the Middle East, startups and entrepreneurs would do well to take...

Lucy Knight • 15 January, 2015

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Lebanon

Rollin'pen finds its opportunity in optimizing Arabic content for the web

  While Beirut has countless translators, one in particular is targeting businesses with an eye on corporate communication. “The idea i...

Abdulghani Kataya • 01 March, 2015

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Lebanon

Career banker-turned-entrepreneur sees opportunity in Lebanon's banking sector

While financial tech is a fast growing sector globally, there is still room for growth in Lebanon. While many banks use...

Samantha Kaufman • 12 January, 2015

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Lebanon

Lebanese entrepreneurs work to grow new talent in Tripoli

Recently, while walking up and down the stairways of heaven in one of the holiest places in Lebanon - The Qadisha Valley - I had the chance...

Reine Farhat • 21 December, 2014

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Lebanon

Innovation fills the prescription: 6 tips on building a wearable from CardioDiagnostics

Most of the entrepreneurial activity in the region focuses on ecommerce or online services, and software development and services...

Stephanie Nour Prince • 25 November, 2014

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Lebanon

BDL Accelerate 2014’s first day: tips from the top

Lebanon’s central bank is keen to show its support for the startup and entrepreneurial community of Lebanon. Earlier this y...

Lucy Knight • 21 November, 2014

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Lebanon

Networking 961 event in Beirut

Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program is organizing the Networking 961 event on Tuesday, November 18, 2014, Concrete1994 , Sin el Fil ,...

Wamda • 14 November, 2014

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Lebanon

IGNITE's Networking Event

IGNITE is an initiative organized by BDD and Endeavor Lebanon that will be held on Wednesday November 19th 2014 at the Beirut Digital...

Wamda • 13 November, 2014

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Lebanon

Startup Weekend North Lebanon

Startup Weekend is coming to the Beirut Arab University in North Lebanon (BAU Tripoli campus) from November 21st to 23rd. SW North Lebanon...

Wamda • 28 October, 2014

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Lebanon

15 funding and team building tips from Mix N' Mentor Beirut

The Lebanese tech scene has evolved a lot since Wamda organized its first Mix N’ Mentor here back in 2012. It’s now more structured and mat...

Aline Mayard • 02 October, 2014

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Lebanon

Diaspora mentorship can unlock Lebanon's potential, says LIFE chairman Marc Malek

Marc Malek, Chairman of the Board of the Lebanese International Finance Executives (LIFE) network, believes that the reach, influence, and...

Anwar Aridi • 29 September, 2014

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Lebanon

Innovation in Family Business Forum in Beirut

The Lebanese Management Association (LMA) will organize in collaboration with Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal Group the “Innovation in Family B...

Wamda • 23 September, 2014

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Lebanon

Could password woes go out the window with new Lebanese app?

  “I woke up one morning and my digital world had fallen apart,” says Priscilla Sharuk. Inspired by the traumatic...

Lucy Knight • 09 September, 2014

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Diaspora key to making Lebanon more business friendly, says Nokia's Ramzi Haidamus

In the early 1980s, at the age of 17, Ramzi Haidamus migrated from his war-ravaged home of Lebanon, leaving his family behind....

Anwar Aridi • 07 September, 2014

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'Tinder for trivia': SwypeOut, Lebanon's newest mobile game

As the Arab world has become home to the world’s most active gamers, it has increasingly been eyed as a potential hotbed for game d...

Stephanie Nour Prince • 02 September, 2014

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Learn and adapt: Lebanon's Sociatag shows us how it's done

If you’re active in the Lebanese startup ecosystem, then you’ve probably already met the young entrepreneur behind Sociatag, the social int...

Stephanie Nour Prince • 24 August, 2014

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How Game Cooks' side project became its newest attraction

     It's all about the screen tap. (Images courtesy of Game Cooks) In a departure from their usual games, which...

Lucy Knight • 13 August, 2014

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Global

How Lebanese 3D-mapping pioneer Louay Eldada shares his success with the MENA

Leaving behind his Beirut childhood, Louay Eldada went off to New York City to attend Columbia University. The PhD he earned there is in...

Anwar Aridi • 11 August, 2014

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