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Iraq

1001: The Iraqi startup looking to displace Shahid and Netflix

Iraq is a market that still elicits a sense of pity and fear for many, but for those operating in Iraq, the opportunities are endless. The...

Media streaming

Regional

Competition rising: Video streaming in Mena

If there is one pastime that people in the Middle East are unlikely to give up, it is watching television. In 2018, the daily time spent...

netflix streaming Media

Saudi Arabia

Saudi-based Daal invests in PromoRepublic

Source: MenaBytes Daal, a Khobar-based VC firm has invested an undisclosed amount of money in $2.2 million seed round of social media...

Social Media management

Regional

Podcasts: digitising an oral tradition

The tradition of telling stories is not unique to the Middle East, but this part of the world has for millennia enjoyed tales of love,...

podcast Media Digital Arabic Content

Lebanon

Beirut Editors Lab Hackathon

On 27-28 April 2018, the Global Editors Network (GEN) will gather some of the best media innovators from the region at Flat6Labs in Beirut...

hackathon lebanon Media

Regional

Arabnet Kuwait 2017

ArabNet is flying to Kuwait on October 17-18 for the second time on a row. The 2-day conference particularly focusing on the Kuwaiti and...

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U.A.E

What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017

The reader is king. After an era of praising content as the supreme power in media, the focus today is shifting towards the...

Step 2017 Step Conference Media

Egypt

Fustany's secret Egyptian fashion sauce

The power of a female-led community is highly under-estimated, says Fustany founder Amira Azzouz. “Women have a power of...

fustany Fashion Media

Regional

What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017

The reader is king. After an era of praising content as the supreme power in media, the focus today is shifting towards the...

Step Conference Step 2017 Media

Regional

New startups on the block: January

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. German Medical Reference...

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Scopio aims to become the Getty Images of social media

Social media has popularized videography and photography to an extent where 2 to 4 billion images are pushed out every day. Amidst the...

Scopio user generated content Media

U.A.E

In5 Media Hub, latest incubator with industry approach

Dubai-based incubator In5 is finally putting the finishing touches to its media-focused hub. First announced in November 2015 they...

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U.A.E

Festival of Media MENA 2016 in Dubai

Building on the success of the 2015 event, the Festival of Media MENA will return to Dubai on April 20, 2016, to celebrate the best media...

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Regional

Media matchmaker app links brands and journalists

WePress founder Mohamed Parham Al Awadhi and his moustache. (Image via Eduard Cousin) “Nice moustache!” one of the visitors at the Rise Up ...

Mohamed Parham Al Awadhi journalism platform WePress

Global

Rules of engagement: attracting media attention

Dealing with the media can be hard – a little scary sometimes. Handing over the painstakingly-crafted story of your startup to a...

media for startups media management Tips

Egypt

Alex Agenda aims to develop Egypt’s media [Q&A]

Egypt’s media has dramatically shifted since the January 25 revolution four years ago. Citizen journalists spread through the streets and l...

Media training Alex Agenda alexandria

Jordan

Inside Kharabeesh's path to scale [WRL Report]

Kharabeesh's geographic reach (Images via Wamda Research Lab) The MENA region is facing an acute unemployment crisis that is...

Kharabeesh Digital Arabic Content growth

Turkey

Turkish news site to launch Arabic version from Beirut

The Istanbul offices of haberler.com By the end of 2015 Beirut is going to be home to another news portal for the Arabic speaking region,...

Yeni Medya haberler turkey

Sultan al-Qassemi on MIT Media Lab: imagination realized

Regional

Thought Leadership

1001: The Iraqi startup looking to displace Shahid and Netflix

Competition rising: Video streaming in Mena

Saudi-based Daal invests in PromoRepublic

Podcasts: digitising an oral tradition

Beirut Editors Lab Hackathon

Arabnet Kuwait 2017

What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017

Fustany's secret Egyptian fashion sauce

What we learned about the media industry at #STEP2017

New startups on the block: January

Scopio aims to become the Getty Images of social media

In5 Media Hub, latest incubator with industry approach

Festival of Media MENA 2016 in Dubai

Media matchmaker app links brands and journalists

Rules of engagement: attracting media attention

Alex Agenda aims to develop Egypt’s media [Q&A]

Inside Kharabeesh's path to scale [WRL Report]

Turkish news site to launch Arabic version from Beirut

Sultan al-Qassemi on MIT Media Lab: imagination realized

Jabbar invests in News Group, strengthening regional media-tech ties

Cairo Ashoka event seeks to empower communication between female social entrepreneurs and media

Baraka Bits uses 'good news from the Middle East' to power positive change in the region

Sohati wants to break the taboo of online medicine

Why Transterra moved to Lebanon

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