Hamdi Tabbaa

Co-founder & CEO at Abwaab. Changing the way arabic speaking students learn outside the classroom, one step at a time.

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منصة @AbwaabEdu الأردنية تستحوذ على Apex Education

- تقدم Apex Education خدمات الإرشاد الأكاديمي والاستشارات التعليمة وتوجيه الطلاب للقبول في الجامعات العالمية.

- ستدمج أبواب خدمات Apex Education مع منصتها لتحسين تجربة الطلاب في منطقة الشرق الأوسط بدءًا من مراحل التعليم المبكر وصولًا إلى التعليم العالي.

- ستقدم المنصة أخر منتجاتها المتخصصة في التدريس الخصوصي والتحضير للاختبارات الدولية تحت علامة Apex

- ستستمر ليلى حسن بإدارة Apex Education تحت مظلة أبواب وتقديم خدماتها الاستشارية والإرشادية للطلاب

- تأسست Apex Education في عام 2019 عن طريق ليلى حسن وحسين الخشن ومحمد عبيد

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Nothing work related or a business update here.

Purely a two hour walk out in nature on the weekend to clear the mind.

Sometimes this is all you need for a small reset.

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Does education have a role in this? Can we really get there at some point?

#Edtech #Innovation
Unleashing human potential.

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Does the Middle East stand a chance at becoming a global innovator of hardware products - not just consumers of what’s built in China or the US?

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The Education Global Exhibition was running in Riyadh last week, I saw some products which could look like early signs - with some “product innovations” being incubated in Saudi universities - yet I think the road ahead is still very long.

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Abwaab team playing with hashtag#AI trends.

"طبعا حمدي عنا يسوى أكثر من ٢٠ دولار"😅

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How big can the impact of AI be on education?

Stay tuned for some revolutionary AI products by Abwaab 🚧 in the works 🚧

#AI #Education #Learning #Edtech

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“ChatGPT’s New Image Generator Hits 700M Images in One Week. ChatGPT has reached 20M paid subscribers, generating an estimated $415M in monthly revenue.” TechCrunch

#AI

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Largest K-12 acquisition to date (offline) $14.5B.

A reminder of how big the spend on education is, and how much work is needed to level the playing field for students regionally and globally.

https://t.co/JWT418eD6G

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I was robbed, multiple times
https://t.co/nCKm7iVVUE

I spread too thin
https://t.co/KrA4JwdCih

My margins didn’t make sense
https://t.co/NdHqmFd5Rk

I went in with zero know-how
https://t.co/tDSJJm5ojf

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Failure. الفشل

A word most of us grow up fearing.
كلمة كبرنا و نحن نخاف منها

But in reality, it’s one of the most powerful forces for growth — if we let it be.

#failure #Entrepreneurship

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💡 We probably learn more from failures than from successes.
💡 If we’re truly pushing boundaries, failure becomes part of the process — not the end of it.
💡It’s often the price of ambition — a sign that we’re aiming high.

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I hugged the pie
https://t.co/WufZ7WNOh8

I thought I “knew” the market
https://t.co/gm9kk2hE0k

Yet, overnight iteration shifted the dynamic
https://t.co/P7AkYBJNwx

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واقع الحال، بدون ما الواحد يفشل ممكن ما يكون عم يتحدى نفسه كفاية و يجرب أمور جديدة خارج منطقة الراحة.
في الحقيقة، الواحد ممكن يتعلم من الفشل اكثر من النجاح.

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💡Most success stories have a long list of failures behind them. We just rarely hear about those.
💡Failure builds resilience, sharpens focus, and helps us figure out what really matters.
💡And perhaps most importantly: the fear of failure is more damaging than failure itself

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“I went to a conference in ‘97 or ‘98 and I heard a beautiful bald-headed man by the name of Jeff Bezos say if you invest in things, it’s going to change people’s lives,” O’Neal said.

@SHAQ
#Edtech #ImpactInvesting

https://t.co/T7xd2pI9Bt

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Building the future of learning. Our story in 3 minutes.

#Abwaab #Edtech

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Pleasant surprise visit from Suhaib who just walked into the office in Amman, telling us that he scored 95.5 out of a 100 on his grade 12 Tawjihi final exams while learning on Abwaab.

Touching people’s lives every day with real impact.

Abwaab. Unleashing human potential.

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So I call up Apple support, the lady picks up the phone and says:

“I am an automated system that can handle complete sentences, what can I do for you?”

AI taking over faster than we expect. In ten years my kids will probably think this has been the default.