Shared workspaces for startups, entrepreneurs in Lebanon

The Daily Star newspaper in its issue of today, highlighted an ambitious technological center launched in Beirut under the name ‘antwork’ to facilitate the work of startups and independent entrepreneurs. The concept provides small offices for freelancers and independent workforce equipped with top notch installations. Antwork was inaugurated last January in the lively Hamra district in the capital, Beirut, and is already home for some 16 startups and 180 co-workers. According to Zina Bdeir Dajani, CEO and co-founder of the project, the main hindrance to the performance of emerging enterprises is their access to free workspace and administrative services, which brought up the idea of antwork. By offering fully furnished private spaces with printers and other required office equipment, antwork reduces the costs of these services on their users. For contact and information, those who are interested, can visit the company’s website: http://bit.ly/2mMXdee or upload the application, Dajani noted. She disclosed that the founders are looking for expansion in the Middle East and Europe. (The Daily Star, March 3, 2017)