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How do you create a good company culture?

Regional

How do you create a good company culture?

Dawn Metcalfe is a workplace culture advisor and managing director at PDSi MEA. She is also the author of Managing the Matrix and The...

culture company culture Leadership

Ketabook turns niche market into a Maghreb bookseller’s dream

Morocco

Ketabook turns niche market into a Maghreb bookseller’s dream

The story of Ketabook is the one of a historian father and his marketer son. It started 17 years ago when Mohamed El Mansour, a history...

Ketabook Amazon culture

Can Yallaread make peer-to-peer work in Tunisia?

Tunisia

Can Yallaread make peer-to-peer work in Tunisia?

The peer-to-peer sharing economy never really took off in MENA but some entrepreneurs, like Tunisian Ahmed Hadhri, still believe it’s...

culture yallaread collaborative consumption

The evolution of tech startups in MENA [Opinion]

Regional

The evolution of tech startups in MENA [Opinion]

Watching an ecosystem grow. (Image via Miami Herald) In much of the world, being a technology startup is a very ‘cool’ pursuit. The sto...

risk ecosystem growth Opinion

Turning to technology to preserve cultural sites

Regional

Turning to technology to preserve cultural sites

Syria's Palmyra has been a subject of looting and destruction. (Image via Shutterstock) This article is an edited crosspost from the MIT...

Nframes Sketchfab Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage

When the cofounder relationship goes awry, the story of Lioumness

Maghreb

When the cofounder relationship goes awry, the story of Lioumness

It’s not uncommon for one cofounder to leave a company in its early years. In some cases, the separation goes smoothly, in others, it k...

Lioumness culture morocco

Abjjad exceeded its goal on Eureeca by 30%; what's next for the Arabic reading social network?

Abjjad exceeded its goal on Eureeca by 30%; what's next for the Arabic reading social network?

A few days ago, Abjjad became the first Arab cultural website to exceed its crowdinvestment target amount on Eureeca, the first ...

Jordan books reading

Al Riwaq Art Space seeks to change how Bahrainis approach art [Wamda TV]

Al Riwaq Art Space seeks to change how Bahrainis approach art [Wamda TV]

“One of our missions is to change the mindset of the people, not to take everything as it comes,” says Bayan Al-Barak Kanoo, founder of Bah...

culture arts Bahrain

Innovative business model hopes to spark artistic creativity in Palestine

Innovative business model hopes to spark artistic creativity in Palestine

“If you live as a victim you stay as a victim,” says Rami Khader, a founding member and manager of Bethlehem’s Diyar Dance Theatre. “The h...

arts culture dance

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