Wamda

Lebanon

Tripoli-based startup brings online retail to local merchants

Lebanon’s northern coastal city of Tripoli, once the center of trade in the region, is now too often associated with political...

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Syria

Artificial intelligence startup wins at Jusoor competition

Arabot, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to build online Arabic chatbots, won first place at Jusoor’s third annual...

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Lebanon

Making social pay, #MixNMentor Beirut

If you had a choice between having a $10 million business and being on the cover of Forbes magazine, or running a $50 million business and...

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Lebanon

Growing organically in Lebanon can be tough

Reema Mansour Maamari challenges you to make your own granola. “Why shouldn’t you make your own granola? It’s so easy. If...

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U.A.E

From mortgages to Nancy Ajram, one man makes his digital mark on pop culture

Celebrity beta website Najem is three-months old and dedicated to the lifestyles of MENA's rich and famous. Think Buzzfeed with glamor....

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Lebanon

AUB students Reboot Beirut at hackathon

“The moment you realize that you can build and change things, you see something sucks and you do something about it, build a company,...

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Lebanon

What I know about assessing startups for potential investment: Fadi Bizri

It can be difficult to find the right investor for what you know is a solid idea. But if the meetings with an investor drag on, you may...

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Beirut-based Myki launches authentication solution at Techcrunch Disrupt

Take 5,000 plus attendees, a gigantic waterfront pier and some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and you get Techcrunch Disrupt San...

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Lebanon

The secret toll of entrepreneurship

Ali Chehade-Farhat’s Facebook page reads like the textbook success story every entrepreneur wants to have as their own. On one...

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Lebanon

Powering up your beach experience

Growing up in a country that sits along the Mediterranean coast, the beach is staple in the country’s summer activities. For many,...

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Lebanon

Start Your Own Business Workshop

The Amideast Entrepreneur Institute is launching its upcoming ‘Start Your Own Business’ workshop. The workshop is...

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Lebanon

Kids Genius: a young makers heaven in Lebanon [Video]

At Kids Genius, the boring connotations of the word ‘education’ is masked by a sense of creativity and fun. This classroom...

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Lebanon

What I know about lying: Jonathan Choufany

Lies fascinate us. Children experiment with them, white lies are essential for smoothing the bumps of everyday life (your grandmother...

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U.A.E

From finance to food tech: UAE's Chefxchange

For most millennials, the art of wining and dining guests at home is increasingly dwindling in the face of a rising on-demand culture that...

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Lebanon

LAUNCH Summit 2016 - Lebanon's Early Stage Startup Conference

AltCity is hosting the first EuroMENA early-stage innovation conference on September 22 at ESA in Clemenceau,...

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Lebanon

Lebanon's droid-maker: Innovo breaks into hi-tech manufacturing [Wamda TV]

Innovo is one of the few independent precision manufacturing workshops in the region - this means robots, high tech circuit boards, and 3D...

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Lebanon

AUB’s Innovation Center: a haven for ambitious minds

In the heart of Lebanon’s leading university overlooking the Mediterranean Sea is a center harnessing a future vision for the...

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Lebanon

Back from the brink, FREE

How do you bring yourself back from the financial brink and complete a water irrigation prototype? Antoine Skayem’s company, FREE...

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Regional

A Google for Arabic e-books

To look for books in Arabic, on free websites, means to enter a cycle of endless electronic links, which might sometimes be unsafe....

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Regional

Wissam Sabbagh: A visionary turning idea to product

“Sex and $550.” That was the subject line of an email then 18-year-old Wissam Sabbagh sent to thousands of potential...

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A tale of two cities: how a Lebanese startup moved to San Francisco

Elie Khoury knew he wanted to be in California ever since he was a child tinkering with computers in Byblos. “I didn’t have...

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Lebanon

SE Factory Summer 2016 bootcamp

Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program and the Nawaya Network are collaborating to launch a new coding academy in Lebanon which...

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Regional

MENAT accelerators invest $3.5M, lag global averages

Accelerators have become a “rite of passage” for entrepreneurs around the world, and a report on the state of global programs...

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Lebanon

Kwik emergency response sensor wins refugee hackathon

Fire and freezing cold are potentially fatal for refugees, but they are dangers which could be over due to 'emergency sensor'...

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