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There's another great company which is a multi hundred million dollar company very much like amazon.com of the middle east. one of the most exciting things i see are the young people who look at the problems around them and use technology to solve them. traffic is terrible in cairo, as you know. now there are several wonderful apps to crowd share how you can get through and navigate traffic. i would say as much as 15% of the startups i see are education. a lot of people don't realize in egypt alone, tutoring is already a $2 billion business. now technology is coming in to not only bring course...

Education. a lot of people don't realize in egypt alone, tutoring is already a $2 billion business. now technology is coming in to not only bring courses and videos online in arabic, now it can reach hundreds of thousands if not millions more people. of course everything is one click away which means some companies i'm seeing are reaching american audiences. i discovered i had been using for six months a weather app. i had no idea that it was made by 30 young people in alexandria, egypt. >> and the youth is az large part of your story. we often heard about the youth bulge in the middle east, a...

Protesters cancelled today's protests for security reasons. president obama is wrapping up an eight-day vacation on martha's vineyard. his break included lots of golfing. among his partners, seinfeld producer, larry david. the president hits the roads later this week to highlight his proposals for helping the middle class. his campaign-style bus tour will take him to syracuse and binghamton, new york. he travels to scranton, pennsylvania, friday. now back to "fareed zakaria g " gps". entrepreneurial is not the first word or one of the first ten words that come to my mind when i think of th...

Uprising, the entrepreneurial revelation, remaking the middle east." as i say, when you tell people this, their first reaction must be you're talking about -- >> as you know from your travel there are mulltiple generations of entrepreneurship but people don't think of it as a technology hub which i think is a mistake i've even made. software is everywhere. when a new generation gets hold of software, it does very, very interesting things. >> give me of sense of what is the basic evidence for this? because i would agree with you, this is an old trading culture. mohammed was a merchant. but the ...

But my next guest is here to tell me that i'm wrong and the media is missing a big story in that part of the world. chris schroeder is a washington-based entrepreneur and venture capitalist himself. he has a new book called "start uprising, the entrepreneurial revelation, remaking the middle east." as i say, when you tell people this, their first reaction must be you're talking about -- >> as you know from your travel there are multiple generations of entrepreneurship but people don't think of it as a technology hub which i think is a mistake i've even made. software is everywhere. when a new ...