Be warned. It’s time for another long Nokia post on 360east!
Last week ago I was in Beirut to attend the first Nokia Levant Developers Forum.

The fact that Nokia actually holds such local events and goes through the trouble and cost of flying people to Beirut shows you how hard the company is trying to stay [...]

SYNTAX and Al-Balad Theater present:“The New (Type)face of Amman”German type-design rising star Yanone will be telling the story of his Amman typeface, created for the Amman Municipality’s “Amman Brand” project in collaboration with SYNTAX.The result of this project is now “FF Amman”, a professional typeface marketed worldwide by FontShop, as one of largest bilingual font [...]

The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Jabal Luweibdeh will host the exhibition “Open City: Refuge Urbanism” which is part of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2009-10 (IABR), opening today Sunday 18 July 2010, at 6 pm.

Refuge Urbanism (Part of the Diwan Collaborative Research Network, directed by Philipp Misselwitz & [...]

Coffee, tea, orange juice, Apple juice and water. That was the only liquid fuel needed at yesterday’s Meydan launch at Amman’s Zara Expo yesterday. The energy of the event was provided by an enthusiastic crowd, fired on by non other than Jordan’s Chief Disruption Officer, Maher Kaddoura.

The idea behind Meydan is to be a startup [...]

Visiting Beirut is always a bitter sweet experience. My last trip to Beirut to attend ArabNet, the region’s first web business conference was my third trip to the city in 8 years, each of which had the duration of 48 hours. Each time I visit beirut I leave with a book, always from Librarie Antoine, [...]

Photos stolen from Andfaraway
With a ballroom full of participants during all sessions, buzzing networking activity during coffee breaks, inspiring talks from both older web hands and young ones, startup demos from all over the region, not to mention very active tweeting and live blogging, we can say that day 1 of the ArabNet [...]

Here is one of my favorite anecdotes about the Arab web industry: the web advertising spending of the whole Arab region, including the rich Gulf region and Saudi Arabia is less than the revenue of a single niche web marketing agency (which you never heard of) in Seattle where one of my friends works. Now [...]