The Middle East has traditionally been a region engulfed in political unrest and discord. Surprisingly though, it is also an area burgeoning with immense potential as far as women entrepreneurship is concerned. With countries like the UAE transforming from a frontier to an emerging market and Palestine, with its remarkable rate of women...
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Women into STEM: Education & Practice
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has witnessed positive growth over the past one decade, essentially fuelled by the governments willingness to migrate from energy-based economies to knowledge-based ones. It is indeed not untrue to claim that long-term sustainability as well as societal welfare can only be possible by incorporating womens participation in...
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Purva Grover’s Passage to India
Tell us about The Indian Trumpet how did it all start and why? When I, Purva Grover, an Indian girl, landed in Dubai, I felt I couldnt leave behind my passion for journalism and my love for home. At the same time, I couldnt help but play with fonts, colors and words to create...
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Engendering diversity for positive economic growth
Since time immemorial, a womans socio-political status in society has been pre-determined by widely-practiced patriarchal hegemony that neither knows boundaries nor geography. Historically stemming from agrarian societies where men performed hard labor outside the home, and their softer counterparts were the women homemakers and caregivers. Patriarchy, however, remains deeply entrenched in the social fibers of...
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Meera Kaul Foundation Starts the Year by Inspiring Women in STEM
Unique event brings over 300 women entrepreneurs and senior executives under one roof. Dubai UAE – Under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum, the year 2015 has commenced with a tribute to the female gender with the launch of Women in STEM 2015 Conference & Awards. Organized by The Meera Kaul Foundation,...
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Setting a roadmap for expat living
EXPATMONEY has been around for some time helping a lot of expats in the UAE and overseas adjust to their new life abroad by providing information regarding diverse concerns including finance, business, banking, inheritance, real estate, education, human resources and more. But not a lot of people know about the husband and wife tandem that...
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Making it in the corporate world
Climbing the corporate ladder is not only about hard work or burning the midnight oil; it is that and even more. Indeed action does speak louder than words. You need to have the entire package a burning passion, ambition to succeed, a vision to sustain, a willingness to go the extra mile and most...
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The Digital Gender Divide
ICTs have revolutionized the way we live our lives. Smart technologies and new media has not only empowered us socially; but have played a pivotal role in fueling global economic activity. Viable growth within the constraints of the planets finite resources is only plausible if the infinite potential of human resource, particularly that of the female gender...
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Education in the UAE
The higher education sector in the UAE has seen an accelerated rate of growth over the past one decade with the mushrooming of universities that are either offshore branches of foreign institutions or are accredited by one. With the country teeming with academic organizations, course options are many. That said, skyrocketing college fees, indecision about...
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On the recklessness of rationalizing conservatism
I get it why Pepsis newly appointed CEO Indra Nooyi said what she said; commenting on women striving to achieve work-life balance and cant having it all. I was, however, fairly amazed to read Kim Kardashian (of all people) challenge a titan in the world of business one who made her way up the...