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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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Defying Statelessness: How My Daughter’s Birth Inspired Me to Start a Peer-to-Peer Shipping Company in Iraq

What happens to Syrian refugee children who are born abroad? The hurdles to get a birth certificate in Iraq led Azhar Al Madani to start a shipping company. By Hadeel Hegazy and Valentina Primo Brought by Jusoor and Spark “In April 2016 I welcomed my baby girl, and after a long and exhausting journey to issue her birth certificate, Shiffer was born,” says Azhar Al Madani. His problem is not…
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The Startup Roadshow Is Looking for Syrian Startups Across the Middle East

The Roadshow is selecting Syrian startups for 5-day bootcamps across 5 cities in the Middle East and the chance to pitch at the finale in Amsterdam. The Startup Roadshow, a competition for Syrian entrepreneurs in Turkey and the Levant region, is taking to 5 cities, from Amman to Erbil, to Beirut, Istanbul, and Gaziantep, to discover the next Syrian startup rockstars and equip them with the skills…
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