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AraGeek is an award-winning Arabic digital media website, founded in 2011 by two Syrian bloggers: Emad Shams and Malaz Madani while studying in the United Kingdom. Arageek was one of first Arabic magazine of its own to offer engaging and relevant content focused on technology and social media news to Arab youth.

من أجل إنشاء مجلة رقمية جديدة لأول مرة بالعالم العربي.

Early iteration of the site was only a simple Wordpress blog, with Malaz Madani and Emad Shams as sole authors.

Growth and fame came relatively quickly as the website was one of the first Arabic online publication to offer alternative media to young Arab people

As of January 2018, Arageek became one of the most visited Arabic language media website as 3,000,000 monthly unique visitors hit the website, and it had more than 2,500,000 fans on Facebook and close to 200,000 followers on Twitter.

History
الاسم هو اختصار وجمع كلمتي Arabic geek ( Arageek stands for Arab Geek )

Founded in 2011 by two Syrian bloggers Malaz Madani and Emad Shams while living and studying in the United Kingdom. Early iteration of the site was only a simple Wordpress blog, with Malaz Madani and Emad Shams as sole authors.

In 2015 Arageek was registered as a limited company in the UK

in 2016 تم تأسيس شركة/تحويلها إلى شركة ( No need for the statement )

in 2017 ِArageek acquired (Ibdaa World) Magazine that founded in 2008 and the winner of BOB award in 2010.

تخصصات المجلة
( كانت بداية المجلة في التخصصات التقنية فقط مثل (إعلام اجتماعي- الأفلام والألعاب الإلكترونية - قصص نجاح وريادة أعمال - التسويق رقمي)، وفي أواخر عام 2014 أعلنت عن إنشاء «أراجيك تك» ليكون قسم مخصص للأخبار التقنية، وفي أوائل عام 2015 تم إنشاء قسم «أراجيك فن» ليكون قسم مخصص للأفلام العالمية وموضوعاتها، ومن ثم قسم آخر (أراجيك تعليم) مختص لمواضيع التعليم والدراسة في الخارج.

Early days, Arageek was only focused on publishing news and articles about technology, social media, gaming, entrepreneurships, and digital marketing. In 2014 Arageek launched Arageek Tech as its dedicated vertical for technology news. In early 2015, Arageek Art vertical was launched to be its dedicated vertical to cover international films reviews and and news, and then another vertical ( Arageek Education) that focuses on education and study abroad matters.

Awards
In 2016 Arageek was the winner of the blogging category at the Arab Social Media Influencers Summit in Dubai. and it was also nominated for the BOBs (weblog award) in 2015.