Tell us about yourself and your professional journey? I am a trained engineer. Growing up, sciences were my favourite subjects which I excelled in through primary and high school. I ended up pursuing a course in engineering for my undergraduate. While in my fourth year of study, my interests shifted, and I fell in love...
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Cisco Inspires the Next-Generation of Women at Girls Power Tech Event in Dubai
May 16th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): Cisco hosted its annual Girls Power Tech event at its Dubai office, where female students from GEMS, SUNMARKE, DIA and Collegiate American School in the UAE had the opportunity to interact with Cisco executives, technology professionals and other women role models and peers, and hear inspiring stories about their careers...
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Empowering BusinessMums
May 13th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): The Inaugural edition of the Middle East Mompreneur forum took place yesterday, Tuesday the 8th of May at the Zabeel Ladies Club. The event saw over 200 women in attendance, with a vested interest in gaining insight, motivation and teachings from some of the regions most successful mom-entrepreneurs. Moreover, the...
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Arise Women!
May 14th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): How Women Rise, a corporate guide for women written by womens leadership expert Sally Helgesen and #1 global leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith, launches in Dubai with an elite business workshop hosted by Yardstick Marketing Management, a 360-degree marketing firm in the UAE and Right Selection, a local-based international speakers bureau....
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Groundbreaking womens health event to challenge gender bias, taboos
Some of the most serious issues related to women in Pakistan are their well-being and reproductive health. The World Bank has ranked Pakistani womens general welfare and health among the lowest in the world. The situation, however, is not all that bleak. With the right efforts implementable, advocated and sustained things can improve...
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Accelerating Womens Communal Progress
May 6th, 2018, Sharjah (UAE): NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA) has recently concluded visits to leading academic institutions, municipal councils and ladies club branches across Sharjah, introducing its three affiliates and their programmes, which are designed to empower and develop women and accelerate their progress within their communities. As part of its outreach efforts, NAMA...
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Dubai Business Women Council holds workshop on Blockchain Technology
April 25th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): The Dubai Business Women Council, in cooperation with the American University in Dubai, organized a workshop at the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the topics of Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies. The workshop is part of the councils efforts to enhance the knowledge of its members on the latest...
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ENGIE’s Womens Euro-Arabian North Pole Expedition 2018 is set to reach new heights
April 15th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): An international team of women from across the Middle East (Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) and Europe will set out to ski the last degree to the North Pole in April 2018 in order to promote greater cross-cultural dialogues, to inspire all women to reach beyond the expectation of...
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Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman Named AUW Commencement Speaker
April 9th, 2018, Chittagong, Bangladesh: Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist, activist, and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, will give the keynote address during the Sixth Commencement Ceremony of Asian University for Women (AUW) on May 12th, 2018. Karman is a prominent advocate of democracy, freedom of expression, and womens safety and participation in...
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Cisco: From Empowerment to Impact
Technology has played a pivotal role empowering women not just digitally but socio-politically and economically as well. Through a parallel reality that is the World Wide Web women have already begun leaning in. That said, there is still a long way to go, many biases to be dealt with one step at a time and...