The U.S. Embassy in Amman is hosting former NASA astronaut Marsha Ivins from March 21-26, 2012, for a number of lectures and workshops in Aqaba, Ma’an, Tafeeleh, Irbid, Mafraq and Amman, to meet and inspire Jordanian youth and share through presentations her experience as a pioneer woman astronaut in space exploration and space research.
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Jordan Amman based startup accelerator Oasis500 has concluded its 10th startup boot camp in collaboration with the British embassy in Jordan.
Out of 350 applicants 65 entrepreneurs where selected to take part of the boot camp 15 of those being from out side Jordan. The startups that participated covered a wide range of fields including com...
Google has launched recently a website dedicated to Egyptian parliamentary election that starts today.
The site http://google.com.eg provide a number of services, news about the election aggregated from the web and that can be filtered according to any egyptian political party or issue.
It also has a section which provides a google map mash...
As an estimated three million pilgrims have gathered yesterday on the plains of Arafat in Mecca for a key rite of Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage. Worldwide, around two billion Muslims are celebrating the holiday known as Eid Al Adha.
In this occasion ArabCrunch greets every Muslims worldwide: Eid Mubarak and may God bless you. And for ou...
General Michael Hayden, United States Air Force (USAF), Retired, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) is the keynote speaker at Black Hat Abu Dhabi. He will share his insights on “cyber security and cyber threats in a changing world”.
lack Hat, the world’s lead...
Last year Google started something useful for the Arab tech and startups ecosystem by hosting events in several Arabian cities branded gdays.
As with last year Google developers conference is coming to the region once again. Google has announced that gJordan is coming to Amman (the capital of Jordan) on October 23 & 24! and to Dubai g|uae on...
US based National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC) has opened registration to its Fifth Annual High Tech Road Show Las Vegas and Silicon Valley January 11-18, 2012 to both business leaders and high-level government officials from throughout the Arab world.
The trip will include attending International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) NUSAC...
Tomorrow is Eid Al Fitr in most Muslims countries. In this occasion I send my greetings (see my Video below) to All Muslims worldwide and specially AC's Muslim reader: Happy Eid, Eid Mubarak and May Allah accept from me and you. If you are not Muslim then I also wish you a happy Tuesday :).
What Is Eid Ul Fitr?
Muslims celebrate 'Eid ul F...
In the spirit of spreading positive, inspiring stories from Palestine, a group of young volunteers started TEDxRamallah, the first TEDx event in Palestine and Jordan to be held in April 16, 2011. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-LIKE experience.
TEDxRamallah will take place in Bethlehe...
On the 29th of November ArabCrunch represented by its founder Gaith Saqer, went to Egypt’s boarders with Gaza strip at the city of Rafah, trying to get an entry to the besieged strip.
Saqer’s intention from entering Gaza is purely humanitarian and non political, the plan was to connect with relevant parties and AC’s team in Gaza to p... 


