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- Fadi Francis Dababneh
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- Amman, Jordan & Beirut, Lebanon
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An Academic Lecturer, Entrepreneur & e-Commerce professional:
Academic involvement; student advisor and lecturer at the German-Jordanian University lecturing Principles of Management, Marketing, Logistics, Transportation and Business English.
Other experiences centred in the Marketing and Business Development fields, of British foreign exchange market, insurance firms, & business brokering. Managing an e-Commerce Web site called AdabWaFan.com, under Maktoob.com & Aramex International management, specializing in selling Arabic and English media products across the region and the world. Managed a multi-national logistics operation, 2 hubs, as well as Supply Chain Management, and e-Marketing.
In Printing & Publishing, created, developed & executed marketing plans, as well as developed new business for new production lines. In Marketing, activities were planning and executing promotional campaigns specifically aimed at foreign organisations such as QIZ companies and international banks based in Amman.
Currently the founder & CEO of SouqElArab Inc. which operates [SouqElArab.com]. which is a growing Arab on-line marketplace in the making. It offers visitors a social shopping experience whereby they can network with like minded people and shop at the same time.
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e-commerce, e-Business, Entrepreneurship, Academic Lecturing, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Retail & Wholesale product offerings, e-Marketing, Internet Business Technologies, Middle East & North Africa, Persian e-Commerce, Middle East / North Africa / Persia On-line retailing Publications / Media / Food / Electronics, Social networking, Printing Press, On-line start-ups, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Joint Ventures, ISOC (Internet Society) Global Member
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edit SouqElArab Inc.
The SouqElArab Inc. venture includes a B2C/B2B Social Shopping Web site, an Institutional portal for Arab World-wide NGO's & NPO's, and finally B2C/B2B African & Persian shopping portal. Also pans for a Pan-Arab Banking e-Commerce portal. SouqElArab Inc. aims at serving and to facilitate the infrastructure for anyone and any supplier to open up a branded shop and have an on-line commerce presence, to market to Arab, Muslim, Persian & African communities & Institutions across the globe. This target group can experience their culture of their homelands where ever they may be; through the facilities where they can communicate, interact, share, live and come together from any country in the world.
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edit 31 December 2008We're Celebrating Our First Year Anniversary Tonight, New Year's Eve!!! On Behalf of SouqElArab.com, we wish our friends, clients, suppliers, affiliates, partners and all our community members across the globe a Happy New Year. May you share it with your loved ones in good health and prosperity. Our hearts and minds are with the Palestinians, especially the citizens of Gaza this New Year for their suffering put upon by occupational forces and regimes. Our celebrations could not be felt due to the present injustice in Gaza, and not to forget of course, our fellow brothers and sisters across the Arab lands, and where ever an Arab feels in need to defend him/herself.
edit 28 December 2008Welcome to SouqElArab.com Community We're Celebrating Our First Year Anniversary This New Year's Eve!!! On Behalf of SouqElArab.com, we wish our friends, clients, suppliers, affiliates, partners and all our community members across the globe a Happy New Year. May you share it with your loved ones in good health and prosperity. Our hearts and minds are with the Palestinians, especially the citizens of Gaza this Holiday for their suffering put upon by occupational forces and regimes. Our celebrations could not be felt due to the present injustice in Gaza, and not to forget of course, our fellow brothers and sisters across the Arab lands, and where ever an Arab feels in need to defend him/herself. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: 28, December 2008
SouqElArab.com, operated by SouqElArab Inc. (a US based company) is currently covering 16 countries with a total of 655 suppliers, 188 contracted suppliers, 34 On-line resellers, and 6 country affiliates. Operating from Amman, Cairo, Beirut, Riyadh, Dubai and by mid-January in Tehran, our catalogue now covers over 300,000 products from across the region. SouqElArab.com reach to clients has been as successful as our supply chain network. Over 300 institutions, universities, organisations and libraries, as well as government agencies have been part of our clientele. On a private-sector base, 425 businesses rely on us to supply them with books, food items, audio and video, and orient gifts. Our latest achievement in reply to your on-going feedback is the relaunch of the Web interface of http://www.souqelarab.com with much more functionalities and ease of use. By the beginning of January 2009, the new interface will be launched, giving you a much simpler, easier shopping network. And before we conclude, let me give you a brief on our 2009 plans; a fully integrated wholesale Web site will be launched, as well as a new Persian and African Web site market for products of these regions. Expansion will begin in mid-2009 by opening up new offices in 6 new countries, while establishing a European Regional Office, and a South American Regional Office. Reflecting back on this one year since our launch, our achievements are yours, and our gratitude is to you. So, we thank you for your support and business. We are coming to a closure of 2008, and look forward, together, to a new year full of prosperity and achievements in 2009. I wish you and your loved ones, on behalf of SouqElarab Inc., a Happy, Prosperous and Peaceful New Year. Sincerely Yours, Fadi Francis Dababneh Chief Executive Officer & Founder SouqElArab Inc. edit 24 December 2008SouqElArab.com Wishes You and Your Loved Ones a Merry Christmas, From Our Homes to Yours
edit 18 December 2008 SouqElArab.com this month Celebrates its First Year Anniversary since its initial Launch on December 31st, 2007. Thanks to you, and your community, we have achieved so much in the past 12 months, and we're just getting started...  Yet, its not just achievements we will be celebrating, but Culture. Our Culture, our Heritage and our Communities across the globe that bind us together are what we celebrate with you at SouqElArab.com. In this festive month full of holidays and celebrations, we are getting ready to give you a fresh new taste of Your Middle Eastern Marketplace... we are getting ready to launch SouqElArab.com in a new environment, a new improved experience and facelift. So, whether its your first visit to SouqElArab.com or your second cup... we offer you a new taste of your Arab Market in just days to come.
edit 08 December 2008SouqElArab.com releases its December issue of its Newsletter. First, we start off by wishing all our Muslim Communities across the Globe an Eid Al-Adha Mubarak.
Also, this month, SouqElArab.com not only celebrates the Holidays with you, but its new launch of its interface environment and shopping experience, as well as our First Year Anniversary!!! More to come soon...
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Sincerely Yours, F. F. Dababneh CEO SouqElArab Inc. edit 30 November 2008This Month's Round Up on SouqElArab.com; The Tempting Tastes of the Middle East & The New Children's Book "Hayati Afdal Bil Akhdar (My Life is Better in Green)"
SouqElArab.com Celebrates Its First Year Anniversary by Launching Its New Interface and Advanced Capabilities in December. Talk soon... edit 27 November 2008On Behalf of SouqElArab.com, we wish our friends, suppliers and all our American & Canadian community members A Happy Thanksgiving, for you and your loved ones. Fadi F Dababneh CEO & Founder SouqElArab Inc. edit 23 November 2008This November's Theme has included many tastes of the Middle East, from the Sweet Sensations to Spices, Olive Oils and Nuts. Check our selection On-line today. edit 13 November 2008This Month's Book Launch is Hayati Afdal Bil Akhdar on SouqElArab.com Hayati Afdal Bil Akhdar (My Life is Better in Green) is the new children book by Cathy Khattar, and illustrated by Dania El-Khatib; published by Turning Point. You can check the book at SouqElArab's page or all of Turning Point's Publications on SEA edit 08 November 2008
We start of with Sweet Sensations... a wide selection of sweets. This month's Newsletter is out. Check it out...
edit 25 October 2008 SouqElArab.com partners with LebanonPath.com, to serve the Arab communities across the globe, directly from the heart of Lebanon.
LebanonPath.com is an Online Lebanese shopping Web site that serves directly from the heart of Lebanon with products such as Lebanese sweets, food, coffee, books, flowers, arts, olive oil, clothing and much more. Through major suppliers of gourmet foods, such as Atayeb Alrif and sweets from Douwaihy, LebanonPath.com has been able to serve customers from all over the world whom have the interest and taste for the Lebanese product. The partnership between SouqElArab.com and LebanonPath.com will boost the service from Lebanon with expanding product offering for both Web sites, supporting regional supplier reach and logistics platforms. SouqElArab.com will be offering more products from Lebanon, while LebanonPath.com has the reach of suppliers from the 15 countries SouqElArab.com operates from. The CEO of SouqElArab Inc. points; “Our efforts are going in to synchronizing the operations in Lebanon, and concentrating on the core markets abroad by serving them with the best quality and wide product offering. Both operations will be coming together in Beirut, cutting costs, while enriching the service provided to our customers.” Fadi Dababneh continues; “this gives SouqElArab Inc. the focus to expand further in its operations in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran.” Albert Abu Hamra the CEO of LebanonPath.Com claims “This effective partnership between both LebanonPath.Com and SouqElArab.com will flourish the online shopping services and products in the Arab world, in order to provide the Arabic audience all over the globe with the best quality of these products and fastest door to door delivery of the products”. CEO of LebanonPath.Com adds: “LebanonPath.Com with its operations from Beirut and in full cooperation with SouqElArab.Com will be covering all product lines where a customer will be shopping safely and choosing from between thousands of products”. SouqElArab.com, operated by SouqElArab Inc., is a growing Arab on-line marketplace. It offers visitors a social shopping experience whereby they can network with like-minded people and shop at the same time. The shopping experience is based on members’ recommendations and feedback, where visitors rate and review products and come together to form a community based on their hobbies, interests and traits. www.souqelarab.com LebanonPath.com is a Lebanese Online store which operates from Beirut - Lebanon, featuring a wide selection of Lebanese products delivered to its’ customers worldwide, in addition to that LebanonPath has established a good connection between the Lebanese living abroad and their families in Lebanon by offering them a domestic service by sending gift ideas and flowers to Lebanon. www.lebanonpath.com edit 07 October 2008
edit 01 October 2008SouqElArab.com wishes you and your loved ones an Eid Mubarak for all our Muslim communities across the globe.
edit 22 September 2008BUILDING BRIDGES...BRINGING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER
SouqElArab Inc. this month is offering our Institutional and Resellers up to 50% discount on products, as well as discounted door-to-door shipping world-wide. This is an effort to serve Institutions, Universities, Libraries, Associations and Resellers around the globe with better service, and prices not seen in the industry before.
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edit 07 September 2008September's Newsletter is out. This month's spotlight is on Ramadan Special, featuring a selection of excellent literary works, the AYAT Interactive Quran audio player, Islamic wear and Islamic softwares. Check the newsletter section, or subscribe to our newsletter at www.souqelarab.com. edit 01 September 2008SouqElArab.com would like to wish the Muslim communities across the world, a Ramadan Kareem, from our homes to yours... edit 18 August 2008SouqElArab.com announces the new promotion and discounts on the Nawaiya ILM 3g and the launch of further 3 new Nawaiya models. The new models are: Nawaiya II, Nawaiya III, Nawaiya IV And on special offer is the Original Full Model: ILM3g edit 11 August 2008SouqElArab.com mourns the Arab world's most prominent Poet and Writer, the late Mahmoud Darwish, who passed away on the 9th of August 2008. edit 09 August 2008The Nawaiya has been getting ready for an all-out sale. Coming soon, a new Nawaiya promotion and new models. edit 08 August 2008August Newsletter is out, featuring 2 shops for this month; eJilbab and Nawaiya.
edit 20 July 2008SouqElArab.com launches the Islamic Clothing Category with eJilbab.com Amman, July 20, 2008 The Arab social Web shopping portal, SouqElArab.com has partnered with eJilbab.com, which offers a wide variety of Islamic and Middle Eastern Apparel, to launch the new category of Islamic Clothing on SouqElArab.com. The new category comprises of modest clothing like Jilbab, Abaya, Dishdash, Thoub, tops, pants and skirts based on Islamic principles. These product lines aim to fill the gap of fellow Muslims who are living in the Western societies, where there is substantial need to acquire good quality yet affordable modest clothing. “Our partnership with eJilbab.com is about joining experiences and care in serving Muslim communities across the globe with much demanded ethnic and religious clothing not easily accessible in the West. We chose eJilbab.com as the optimum choice to launch our Islamic clothing category with, and do look forward on a further expansion in this product line, hand-in-hand with eJilbab.com.” SouqElArab.com CEO stressed on their launch. eJilbab.com is powered by professional and talented Muslims who have the capabilities to offer good quality of modest clothing like Jilbab, Abaya, Dishdash, Thoub, tops, pants and skirts based on Islamic principles. That is the reason why ejilbab.com was established, to be committed to serve their customer to the fullest of their abilities and to guarantee their needs by producing a good quality Islamic clothing and friendly customer service. edit 07 July 2008SouqElArab.com July Newsletter is out. Check it here on the Newsletter section...
edit 20 June 2008SouqElArab.com and Nawaiya FZ LLC are proud to launch Exclusively the Nawaiya ILM3g The Smallest Arabic-Enabled PC and 3g Mobile Phone in the World
Coming equipped with a QWERTY keypad built in and an auto rotating 4.8” Wide VGA LCD with 800 x 480 native resolution. With its ultra power saving AMD Geode processor and high-capacity Lithium Ion batteries for exceptional battery life of up to 7 hours(12 hours with a large battery), the ILM 3G enables you to enjoy a all day long on the go computing lifestyle. Only weighing in at 460g and fitting in one hand, the EVERUN will be your TRUE Ultra Mobile PC. Now you can watch movies, listen to music, check your e-mail, update presentations, take photos and chat with your friends anywhere anytime. Nawaiya Content Portal consists of a number of premium live Arabic channels to be offered to Nawaiya's Interactive Lifestyle Manager (ILM) customers. The specially rich-content package from Nawaiya consists of prominent live Arabic TV channels including top networks such as Rotana, MBC1, Alarabiya, Aljazeera, Dubai TV, Dubai Sports, Escape Music Channel, LBC and Future TV in addition to popular sports pay-per-view and video-on-demand offerings. The ILM3G enables customers to enjoy high-quality Live! TV rich-content accessible over the 3G/WiFi technologies and soon over WiMax. The ILM3G is now ON SALE Here Here edit 20 June 2008PRESS RELEASE:
The Arab social Web shopping portal, SouqElArab.com, partners with Nawaiya FZ LLC. to launch exclusively On-line the Nawaiya’s convergence device the “Interactive Lifestyle Manager - ILM3G”. The ILM 3G is state-of-the-art wide screen handheld convergence device designed to revolutionize content consumption on the go. ILM 3G offers full mobile phone functionality within the same device and enables users to access content, enjoy high-quality music and video playback and browse the full web while they are on the phone all using the same device – a first in the market place. The ILM3G comes bundled with proprietary Nawaiya content portal designed to provide our customers seamless access to live TV, sports, movies and music downloads over Wi-Fi and 3G. Nawaiya has distribution rights to over 56 live premium Arabic channels such as Rotana Channels, MBC1, Alarabiya, Aljazeera, Dubai TV, Dubai Sports, Escape Music Channel, LBC, Future TV and many more. With dimensions of 7.3 X 17 cm. and 2.5 cm. in slimness, it proves that the ILM3G is the smallest PC in the world with a 3G phone. It runs the full version of Microsoft® Windows® XP® and employs a proprietary touch-screen user interface. The CEO of SouqElArab Inc. points; “This fantastic product is geared up for our Middle Eastern & North African clients whom benefit from such facilities and latest technology. Our partnership with Nawaiya is to reach out to the user with the state-of-the-art technology, vibrant in today’s world, and a great product offering for the businessman, the media lovers and people on the move. We are proud to offer the ILM 3G exclusively on-line to our valued community” The ILM3G is sold in UAE stores and will be marketed and sold exclusively On-line on the SouqElArab.com Web site throughout the Middle East and North Africa. SouqElArab.com, operated by SouqElArab Inc., is a growing Arab on-line marketplace in the making. It offers visitors a social shopping experience whereby they can network with like-minded people and shop at the same time. The shopping experience is based on members’ recommendations and feedback, where visitors rate and review products and come together to form a community based on their hobbies, interests and traits. www.souqelarab.com Nawaiya was established in 2007 as an Original Equipment Manufacturer and Media Company (OEM-M) headquartered in Dubai Media City and focused exclusively on the 'Interactive Lifestyle Manager' (ILM) category, that emerging convergence handheld category packing full PC functionality with full mobile phone and 3G data functionality all bundled with geo-relevant and compelling content. The company is focused on the vision of providing the Middle East market with a revolutionary mobility experience firmly rooted in and designed for the region. www.nawaiya.ae edit 13 June 2008Press Release published on iLoubnan.info Read edit 10 June 2008Our Latest Press Releases are published on: edit 08 June 2008Launching VERY soon... the Smallest Arabic Enabled PC with 3G Mobile Phone in the World... exclusively on SouqElArab.com Watch out for it, launching this week. edit 08 June 2008Our June 2008 Newsletter is out... tell us what you think! edit 09 May 2008Our Operation & Offices Are Open In Lebanon For Business Our Dearest Community Members, With regard to the current unrest in Lebanon, and circumstances on the streets of Beirut, we would like to stress that our offices and operations are still open for business, just like the 14 other operations we have in process in the region. The courier services DHL and Aramex we use are also in operation, and up to know have no affect on our deliveries. We would like to send our prayers to the communities in Lebanon, and our team there, as well as our suppliers, service providers and friends. God Bless. Warmest Regards,
edit 06 May 2008SouqElArab.com partners with Yamli.com to offer a unique user experience for Arabs Amman, May 6, 2008 The Arab social Web shopping portal, SouqElArab.com has partnered with Yamli.com, which offers tools that allows easy access and expand the Arabic Web, to offer Arabs the facility that allows Arabic speakers to write Arabic using English alphabet. Embedded within the SouqElArab.com Web site is Yamli’s API technology that allows the user to easily access the vast product lines without the need of an Arabic keyboard. The technology has been implemented in the search engine, as well as the use of User Names for the Networking facility offered, and for placing reviews, messages and text fields. The technology is simply “Write in Arabic - Type it the way you say it” as Yamli creators put it. “I am really excited for this partnership and looking forward for more collaboration with SouqElArab.com. Our mission at Yamli is to empower the Arabic language on the Web and we firmly believe that in unity and collaboration we can and will achieve our goal” says Yamli.com Co-Founder, Habib Haddad. Further to this facility, numerous co-operations and partnerships are in process of implementation to better serve both companies in terms of exposure, accessibility and branding. Fadi F. Dababneh, Founder & CEO of SouqElArab Inc. added: "This new technology has started to revolutionise the Arabic language’s use on the Internet. More and more Web services are offering this technology from Yamli.com to better serve and understand the needs of its user-base. I believe nothing like this has come along since the first Arabic e-mail service was offered in the late 1990’s." Language Analytics LLC, which created and operates Yamli.com is an Internet startup based in Cambridge, MA, (USA) specializes in smart transliteration technologies for Arabic and other languages. Yamli edit 27 April 2008iloubnan.info iLoubnan, one of SouqElArab.com's regional affiliates published the article concerning souqelarab.com launching in the Middle East & North Africa: Click here to read: English French iloubnan.info is an information portal on Lebanon and its diaspora. It is edited by the Beirut-based Company Nel Interactif (S.A.R.L.) iloubnan.info adopts complete political and confessional neutrality by giving the floor to people from all sides to express themselves. iloubnan.info tackles 11 thematic sections tackling politics, society/Diaspora, health, environment, sport, fashion, economy, tourism, entertainment, art and culture, and technology considered as being the concerns of the Lebanese society and its Diaspora and strives to spot the lights on answers from reports, interviews, and columns …
edit 14 April 2008Once again, SouqElArab.com Press Release has been issued in MENAFN, a Middle East North Africa Business news, info and directory portal. Click here to read edit 13 April 2008The latest press release has been published on Zawya.com, a leading Middle East Business Portal and Information Network. Click here to read. edit 9 April 2008SouqElArab.com participated on April 9th, 2008 at the launch of His Royal Highness Prince AlHassan's Theological Works Book, first edition, which is sold exclusively On-line on SouqElArab.com. Among the former Jordanian Prime-Ministers, Ministers, Ambassadors, Professors and Theologists, HRH Prince AlHassan reiterated the need for dialogs among societies, religions and peoples of the Arab nations, as well as to unite on common grounds, patriotism, and peace. The meeting held at the Theological Society stressed the modern issues and the lifetime of achievements & contributions of HRH Prince AlHassan to Jordan, the Arab Region and Theology itself. A man of great character, wit and respect has issued the new book, under publishing of Dar AlWard of Jordan, and can be purchased through Dar AlWard or through SouqElArab.com edit 8 April 2008SouqElArab.com Has been Featured for the second time running on their home page AboutUs.org as a featured wiki-page. | |||
edit Fast Print
Fast Print is a successful, innovative, high quality printing press company founded in 1995 in Amman Jordan, with its roots from 1937 of Hashlan Stamp Workshop. Combining years of experience with technical expertise and a strong focus on client requirements has made Fast Print one of Jordan's leading printers. Our roots are traced back to 1937, with the founding Father, Ibrahim Hashlan Dababneh and the Hashlan Workshop, still in business to the present day.
Publishers, commercial companies and not-for-profit organizations are increasingly turning to the specialist color printing services offered by Fast Print and, in return, we deliver quality printing and offer exceptional service from offset, to web printing to digital printing through every stage of the process.
