Entrepreneurs, mentors, angel investors, and venture capitalists who are interested in lending expertise to help develop the Saudi industry and entrepreneurial ecosystem are encouraged to join in this exploratory networking event, sponsored by the US-Saudi Business Council. Saudi Arabis is now the largest Middle Eastern economy.  It offers founders and entrepreneurs attractive opportunities: venture capital [...]

    The MIT Arab Business Plan Competition has expanded into one of the premier entrepreneurship events in the Middle East. The annual competition attracts 4,500+ applications from across the Arab world. This year, the 150 finalists will descend upon Doha, Qatar, where players from across the entrepreneurship ecosystem in MENA will lead an intensive four days of [...]

AMENDS is a student initiative at Stanford University that brings together the most promising youth change agents from across the Middle East, North Africa, and United States to learn from each other, connect with global leaders and resources, and share, through TED style talks, their ideas and experiences with the world Salim Jabr, PhD Member [...]

    Each year, nearly 1,000 of the world’s most influential social entrepreneurs, key thought leaders and strategic partners gather at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford to exchange ideas, solutions and information. This year join three TechWadi speakers in a special session for a vital exploration of approaches for strengthening MENA’s [...]

  Log-in for access to all event video and slides! Not a member? Join us here! The TechWadi VC Forum brought together 22 investors from North Africa (PNB-NAPEO), an ICT delegation from Palestine (PITA), and 250 entrepreneurs and investors from the US and MENA. A deep dive into US venture capital, angel financing, and crowd [...]

By Mariam Helmy 2005: Dr. Rana el Kaliouby is returning to Cairo, Egypt, having spent the last four years commuting back and forth between the Middle East and Cambridge. She arrives with a baby and a PhD in tow – and this is far from her last trip between the continents. Her journey, in fact, [...]