Maktoob.com

Maktoob is the largest Arab Online community with 4 million registered users. It is a full fledged portal site with community, communication, entertainment, news and ecommerce services.

Maktoob group today constitutes not only of the Maktoob.com

site but also of the following:

www.cashu.com : A secure prepaid card solution for online shopping. This is an innovative product that helps users shop

online safely and conveniently. Due to the low penetration of

credit cards in the Arab world and the hesitation of cardholders

to use their credit cards cashU represents a solution to a growing problem. Currently cashU cards are sold in retail outlets in all

Arab countries and in some Asian and African countries.

www.souq.com : The first Arab online auction site, currently launched for one category (mobiles) and in Jordan. Will be

expanded to Dubai and other Arab countries.

www.adabwafan.com : A recent acquisition of Maktoob and Aramex (leading logistics company) . Adabwafan is a leading

online Arabic books and music marketplace. Many Arabs in the

US and Europe visit this site to order Arab books.

www.strategiy.com : A business information site targeted

towards the marketing and advertising industry in Dubai

specifically and the Arab world in general.

Have you always wanted to run your own business? What were some of your previous jobs / companies?

I always wanted to run my own business. After my MBA I

worked with Andersen consulting for three years and then

decided to open my own consulting company with a colleague of mine. We focused on systems integration and then on web site development and web applications. We were the first company

to develop a web site in the Arab world. We then started

Maktoob as an experimental project and the project became

bigger than the mother company and took it over!

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