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6 TEDx Talks by Refugee Founders That Will Turn Your Perceptions Upside Down

Refugee founders are not the exception to the norm. Around the world, from the Netherlands, to Australia and the USA, newcomers are radically changing the reality around them. We’ve listed 6 impactful, thought-provoking and inspiring stories, as told by their protagonists through a TEDx talk. By Valentina Primo “What was your first memory as a child? Mine was running down the stairs of…
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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. US-based Engineering For Social Good and Lebanese startup KwikPak won the Idea Track. Peer-to-peer logistics platform Shiffer, founded in Iraq, has just been awarded the ‘Startup Track’ at the Innovate for Refugees Competition (IFR), a global competition led by the MIT…
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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, but people buy with their emotions,” says Oubai Al Hendi. So he is building a platform that responds to that.  By Merna Fawzy “People buy based on their emotions,” says Oubai El Hindi, determined. The Dubai-based entrepreneur is heavily entering the world of e-commerce with his brainchild TwigBIG, which uses artificial…
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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. Bote and Niuversity took the second and third prize. By Rana Hafez  Last week in Berlin, newcomer entrepreneurs competed to win prizes of more than €50.00 at Berlin Newcomer Startup Award, organized by SINGA Business Lab. Reviving Home, an online crowdfunding platform…
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