The Best Of What’s Going On In MENA

Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) has announced a couple of new investments in 3 companies. It is investing $400,000 in the fast food chain Shawarmanji, $250,000 in Arab recipe web portal Shahiya and $500,000 in the online book distribution company Cedar Books. These are co-investments between MEVP’s two funds Middle East Venture Fund MEVF and Building Block Equity Fund BBEF.