U.A.E

What I know about starting up too soon: Loulou Khazen Baz

When Loulou Khazen Baz launched Nabbesh in 2012, she found herself introducing a strange concept to the Middle East and North Africa. In...

Archana Menon • 20 March, 2017

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Regional

Women rising to the top in MENA [Infographic]

This article is a crosspost with Payfort. Female entrepreneurs are founding companies at an ever increasing rate across the world and...

Wamda • 29 January, 2017

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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

U.A.E

Term sheets at dawn, Step Conference 2016

Joy Ajlouny and fellow startup cofounders Loulou Khazen Baz and Mudassir Sheikha get stuck into the debate. (Image via...

Lucy Knight • 06 April, 2016

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Regional

Out of office: how to manage a remote team

Remote workers, be they freelance or employees, are a fact of life in today's connected world. (Image via Continuant) The idea that work...

Loulou Khazen • 02 March, 2016

Loulou Khazen remote working freelance

Palestine

Freelance marketplace Nabbesh helps Palestinians leap borders

Unemployed youth in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank can now find virtual freelance work more easily, following the launch of an...

Christina Ganim • 06 October, 2015

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Regional

The Arab region's freelance economy: some data

By all accounts the global freelance economy is burgeoning. For many, it acts as a way to earn income in the absence of formalized,...

Ahmed Moor • 29 January, 2015

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Elance-oDesk launches in Dubai; poised to serve burgeoning regional freelancer economy

This article was amended on June 5th 2014 to include increased contextualization of Elance-oDesk within the regional freelancer services...

Natasha D'Souza • 04 June, 2014

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How Nabbesh surmounted 3 major regional obstacles to growth

As startups in the Middle East we face barriers every day, whether it’s writing our first business plan, gaining access to capital, f...

Kara Schoeffling • 29 April, 2014

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