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Saleem Najjar, The Syrian Entrepreneur Building the Artisans' Gateway to Global Markets

Yasmeen Smadi meets the Syrian entrepreneur giving artisans in Jordan access to market with Sharqi Shop. By Yasmeen Smadi Brought by: Jusoor and Spark It’s Monday evening and I’m driving through the streets of Amman, the windows rolled down to enjoy the spring breeze, as I head off to the city’s Business Park to meet Saleem Najjar, the co-founder of Sharqi Shop. Sharqi Shop is a marketplace…
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Inside TEDx Roma Salon: Innovation By and For Migrants Takes the Stage at Porous Borders

By Valentina Primo Inside a packed auditorium in Rome’s MAXXi Museum, we get to meet the changemakers behind Arian Teleheal, Mygrants, and Re-future Project. It was a packed room at Rome’s MAXXi museum last September at TEDx Roma Salon as “Porous Borders,” a relay series of talks held in five cities geared up to begin. Outside, right at the entrance of the majestic white building, a…
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Peer-to-Peer Logistics and AgriTech Startups Win Big at the Startup Roadshow in Erbil

Shiffer, a peer-to-peer, online logistics platform for express shipping, and Agri-Answer have won the Startup Roadshow competition, held in Erbil on October 4th. This is the second round of the competition organized by Jusoor and SPARK to support Syrian entrepreneurs, after a successful first edition in Beirut last September. At the end of the roadshow, which will stop in 3 other cities across…
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"Instead of Being Helped, Refugees Are the Ones Doing the Helping"

What if we turned the tables and started looking at refugees for the talent they have, instead of the things they they need? We meet Mursal Hedayat, founder of the EdTech startup doing just that. By SWB Team Summer is officially over. This month, children across Europe start the new school year. But a crisis is looming. Around the world, there is an estimated shortage of 69 million teachers.
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