Tell us about yourself and your professional journey? I was born in Nassau, Bahamas in the 80’s. I am a very motivated, driven person and this gives me the resilience to succeed despite adversity. I have worked in diverse professional fields including hospitality, insurance and banking industries; before launching my own business Candid Concepts Development....
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Celebrating Woman
April 17th, 2016, Dubai, UAE – BOLDtalks Woman continues to bring to light the incredible stories of women – looking at both their challenges and triumphs – and encouraging solutions to womens issues. When you invest in a woman, change happens. Because when a woman thrives, a family thrives, a community prospers, and an entire nation creates the...
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Dubai based entrepreneur wins prestigious Montegrappa Writing Prize
Dear Michael is a dark psychological thriller based on a mothers letters to a prison inmate incarcerated for murder Karen Osman, the founder of Travel Ink, has won the Montegrappa Writing Prize at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature for her novel Dear Michael. The fictional work is a thriller, set in the North of England about...
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Educate to Empower!
Womens Digital League will train 300 women on digital livelihood in six districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the North Western province of Pakistan. The trainings will be conducted under the World Bank sponsored KP Digital Livelihood Training Program. These trainings have started at partner institutes and organizations in which housewives and female students are learning...
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Silencing the Lambs: A Look At Domestic Violence in Pakistan
In an incident in Mingora (North Area, Valley of Swat) Pakistan, in May 2001, a woman was allegedly gunned down by her husband over a domestic dispute and then the husband escaped. [Gender Equality And Women Empowerment in Pakistan by Rashida Patel, published by Oxford University Press] **** Bibi Zadagai, wife of Amir Nawaz,...
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The 8th Annual DIAMUN hosts women & development event
Dubai, 16 March 2016: DIAMUN 2016 the Dubai International Academys Model United Nations, a yearly event starts today and will run until March 19th. Over 800 middle and high school students from 45 schools around the world will discuss issues around the theme Women and Development: Investing in Our Future. The conference will take...
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Driving innovation for women empowerment
Tell us about yourself? I was born in Kenya and moved to Canada in the late 70s. After finishing school, there was one thing on my mind that I wanted to do in the university and that was computer science. Later, based in the oil and gas city of Calgary, my first job was at...
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National Geographic Abu Dhabi Airs “My Name is Malala”
Abu Dhabi, UAE, 13 March, 2016: National Geographic Abu Dhabi, the number one Arabic entertainment documentary channel, will dedicate sizable share of its airtime during March 2016 to woman-specific subjects, notably for the occasion of Mother’s day, and International Women’s day. As such, “He Named Me Malala will be introduced to the list of aired...
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Enabling next-gen women in the Middle East
Tell us about Reach its ideology and what it strives to achieve? Reach is a non-profit mentoring programme dedicated to helping young women professionals unlock their true potential through structured mentoring with professional support. By sharing their knowledge and expertise with their mentees, within strict rules of confidentiality, mentors aim to build trust and...
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Pakistani Sirens And Cinema
The era of Pakistani films highlighting raucously pumped up men with an over-bearing male chauvinistic attitude is finally over as the new age of cinema ushers a picturesque medley of big budget movies, artsy biopics, raunchy, boisterous comedy, and flashy coming-of-age numbers. It is certainly not untrue to claim that the Pakistani film industry has...