Entrepreneur puts Palestine on region's educational gaming map

“We suffer from a deep shortage of digital Arabic content in the region” at least that is a complaint often made by entrepreneurs, despite efforts. And they’re not far wrong, currently digital Arabic content only makes up 2.5% of the total global online content.

In this context, many Arabic educational apps targeting children have been emerging in the past two years, including AbjadCity and KidsLoveArabic, in addition to EduKitten apps, launched more than two years ago, which aim at reviving the Arab culture in a fun and entertaining way for kids aged three to eight years. This was followed by the emergence of additional educational game apps, including Arabic Kindergarten Barney which aims at building children’s capacities in math and the importance of time in an interactive and fun way. And touched upon by Wamda last week, digital Arabic educational content coming out of Jordan.

Other game apps also attempted to develop a sense of national loyalty among users in addition to publishing Arabic content. An example is the ArabDefender game where users have to defend the Arab world against attacks from what the game calls ‘Devils’.

No need for political stability

The attempts to promote technology entrepreneurship and targeted Arabic content are of course not restricted to countries of political calm, they are also launched from the countries that have the highest levels of turmoil. From the heart of the Palestinian city of Nazareth, and following his participation in the American Aspen Institute leadership program, Jaafar Sabbah, the founder of game apps developer Beam Riders, decided to challenge the political situation by launching the Sinbad platform, just two months ago, free of charge for iOS, targeting children aged 6 to 12 years, with the aim of building their associative thinking, leadership, and modern learning skills, in accordance with the demands of the 21^st century.

Original article by Eman Mostafa

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Entrepreneur puts Palestine on region’s educational gaming map