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Erbil-Based Shiffer Wins the MITEF Pan Arab’s Innovate for Refugees
-The Innovate for Refugees competition awards the best solutions to tackle the refugee crisis across the Middle East. Engineering For Social Good and KwikPak won the Idea Track.
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5 Entrepreneurs Spill the Beans on How to Build an Awesome Team
-One of the 3 top reasons for startup failure is hiring the wrong team. We ask entrepreneurs from Syria and Egypt how they can build a winning team.
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From Product-Based to Story-Based: the Syrian Entrepreneur Disrupting E-commerce with the Power of AI
-“The world of e-commerce is traditionally product-based, while people will buy with their emotion,” says Oubai Al Hendi.
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How This Syrian Entrepreneur Built a 9.000-strong Community of “Conscious Mothers’’ in Cairo
-We meet Reem Sabouni, the Syrian entrepreneur supporting refugee and migrant mothers through Montessori education.
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Syrian Startup Reviving Home Scores €20.000 at SINGA’s Berlin Newcomer Startup Award
-The startup, founded by Hadi Soufan, aims to help displaced people to rebuild and revive their war and crisis-torn cities.
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This Syrian Woman Just Won the Startup Roadshow Finals in Lebanon
-The EdTech startup is based in Gaziantep and focuses on bringing marionettes to the 21st century. This was the roadshow’s second Demo Day, following Ignite 2018 in Amsterdam.
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6 Migrant Entrepreneurs Whose Startups Are Rocking the Tech World
-On International Migrants Day, we take a look at the tech innovations of 6 migrant entrepreneurs who are disrupting the tech industry across borders, from Germany, to Norway, to the US.
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Gaza Sky Geeks and Re:Coded Discuss Tech and Refugees at Egypt’s RiseUp Summit
-The panel “Refugees: Digital Lifelines” took over the main stage at Cairo’s leading startup summit, where Re:Coded and Gaza Sky Geeks talked about their tech programs.
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How Are Newcomers Shaping the Economy? Startup Migrants is Crowdfunding the New Innovation Map
-Immigrants today represent 3.3% of the world’s population. But what does this mean for the economy? We meet the team behind the migrant innovation map.
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“We Couldn’t Keep Teaching Art in Yemen, So We Started an Online Academy Across the Entire Middle East”
-A successful couple of award-winning entrepreneurs Fardous Mohamed and her husband had to start their arts academy abroad all over again – but this time, online.
