Nour Khrais
Nour Khrais is a Jordanian entrepreneur with over 24 years of experience in value-added services and mobile games. He founded Maysalward in 2003, the first mobile game studio in the Middle East to develop and publish casual and hybrid hypercasual games. Khrais holds a Master's degree in international business and global marketing, as well as a diploma in mobile communications and a Bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering. He is in the home stretch of his Doctoral thesis on the importance of culturalization and localization in mobile phone games in the Middle East. As a result of Khrais' contributions to the mobile gaming industry in Jordan, King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein awarded him the third degree Medal of Excellence in 2017 and the State Centennial Medal in 2022.
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