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Dropbox Partners With TjDeeD Technology In MENA Region
The partnership will allow TjDeeD to add cloud storage, file-sharing, and collaboration solutions to its portfolio.
US-based file hosting and storage provider Dropbox has entered into a strategic partnership with TjDeeD Technology, a leading IT provider in the MENA region. Dropbox is one of the world’s leading cloud storage providers, allowing businesses to centralize their data as well as signing, securing, and managing sensitive documents. The collaboration will enable TjDeeD to offer its clients extended cloud storage and file-sharing solutions, including the popular Dropbox, Dropbox Sign, and DocSend utilities.
The partnership was officially revealed at the “Dropbox Inspire” event for corporate partners and IT companies. The TjDeeD and Dropbox alliance will allow the companies to provide comprehensive support to clients and partners across the UAE, ensuring a smooth and successful integration of the various services while also providing training, guidance, and technical support for Dropbox’s suite of products.
“Dropbox’s vision is perfectly aligned with that of TjDeeD. We design products that reduce busywork so people can focus on the work that matters. Our products help businesses be organized, stay focused, and get in sync with their teams to increase productivity and offer a more enlightened way to work,” says Hiyam Chraiti, Dropbox Regional Sales Manager South EMEA and MENA.
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The Dropbox and TjDeeD partnership will come as a huge bonus for clients searching for a cloud-based data solution. A diverse range of industries will be supported by the service, including media, construction, telecommunications, and education. In addition to distributing the Dropbox service and solutions across the MENA region, TjDeeD Technology will also offer unlimited support for its customers and partners.
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Visa’s Return To Syria Starts With A Test And A Bank In Lebanon
Foreign visitors will be the first users to benefit, but whether Syria’s own banks and cardholders follow is still an open question.
Visa is returning to Syria. Its first live international card transaction in the country was a test rather than a launch, and the milestone event ran through a Lebanese bank.
The acquirer (the bank on the merchant’s side of a card payment) was Fransabank Lebanon, with Paymera as the other named partner. Nadim Moujaes, who heads a Fransabank Group subsidiary, describes the test as both the culmination of “longstanding efforts to link Syria back to international payment networks” and “the first step in a larger path”.
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa makes the first electronic payment in Syria using a @Visa card at a store in Damascus, following the lifting of US sanctions on Syria. pic.twitter.com/lpAN7nQ6Fc
— Tech Magazine (@TechMGZN) August 27, 2026
“We are excited to have successfully tested live transactions today as we plan to enable international visitors to use their Visa cards while in Syria,” says Leila Serhan, Visa’s senior vice president and group country manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. Although a significant first step, that plan doesn’t come with a hard date for when a visitor’s card will work normally.
Mohammed Safwat Raslan, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, says the test paves the way for international card acceptance in Syria and that maintaining strong compliance, risk management and operational controls will remain essential. Serhan likewise stresses that Visa has worked within applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. For a test transaction, it seems there was a great deal of attention paid to the rules, with the entire operation being carefully managed.
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The test is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2025, when Visa announced a strategic roadmap to support Syria’s integration into the global digital economy. In February 2026 it hosted its first industry gathering of banks, ecosystem partners and policymakers in Damascus and, the same month, signed an agreement with Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in San Francisco.
Michel Kattouah, Paymera’s CEO, called the test “the return of international card acceptance,” but while that’s positive news, there’s no word yet on when a Syrian bank will issue a Visa card to a Syrian customer.
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