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Bayt.com is an employment website or job search engine. Bayt is the largest job site in the Middle East – North Africa (MENA) region with over 1.3 million unique visitors each month (May 2008). Bayt provides online recruitment services to over 2 million jobseekers and is the most-visited job site in the MENA region according to Alexa.com (May 2008). The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates with additional offices in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Bahrain, Khobar, Riyadh, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Amman, Jordan; Casablanca, Morocco; and Karachi, Pakistan.

History

In 1999, Rabea Ataya contacted fellow Dubai resident Dany Farha to discuss starting a job site in the fledgling internet climate of the Middle East. In 2000, there were only 2 million internet users in the Middle East.

Ataya was motivated by his observation that there was no globally admired and respected Middle Eastern company. Furthermore, anticipating significant growth in internet usage and sensing a gap in the available job-matching services, Ataya proposed starting a Middle Eastern job site built on the learning gained from studying job sites in more technologically-savvy regions. Ataya and Farha recruited Ataya’s sister Mona and technologist Akram Assaf. This founding group then collectively launched Bayt as a job site in November 2000.

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