Tell us about yourself and professional journey? I am an Engineer and a mother of two boys, originally from Damascus, Syria. Born and raised in the UAE which I consider my second home. I earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University Canada. My first working experience was with a Canadian electronic manufacturer representative,...
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Leveling the Gender Quotient
The Girls Lounge is a revolutionary US-based entity that offers support and mentoring to professional women, enabling them to find their voice and embrace their feminine leadership powers. Headed by the visionary Shelley Zalis, the Lounge advocates gender balance in the corporate world thereby effecting real change for real women. Tell us about yourself and...
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Building Blocks of Success
Career development on an institutional and student level is critical to ones success. Developing countries like Peru, Uruguay in the Latin American region or Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka in Asia are prime examples of the dearth of opportunities in terms of skill development and mentorship that play an important role in trigger innovation and...
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Adolescent Girls: Catalysts of Change
The impact of climate change on gender can hardly be ignored. Realizing the stakes, countries, NGOs and scientists the world over are now coming together in not only putting an emphasis on adapting to the impact of climate change but also in striving to develop solutions to the issue of climate change. More recently, there...
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Empowered Voice of the Filipina
We all see things and people through some sort of lenses. Now, whether they be rose-tinted ones or heavily-darkened by negative bias or prejudice, mainly depends on what we have been told, taught, and what we have experienced. In the UAE where people from various ethnic backgrounds merge into one rich, collective melting pot, there...
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Fuelling Innovation
Founder-CEO Kalsoom Lakhani of Invest2Innovate, an organization that supports early state enterprises and developing a productive entrepreneurship ecosystem especially in Pakistan, chats with ANANKE about creating an enabling environment, fostering growth to craft social impact in the country. Tell us about Invest2Innovate? What do you consider your most significant achievement? Invest2Innovate, or i2i, supports young...
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Launching lives with KiteChild
All around us are people who need help, but not everyone believes they can be of help, or are capable of making a difference even in just one strangers life. And while the boxes we slowly build around us as we go through life perfectly serve their purpose of boxing us in, the people behind...
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Esha Nag: Making Her Mark!
Describe your childhood. I was born and brought up in the beautiful east Indian city of Kolkata (also known as Calcutta), once the capital of the British East India Company, and famous for its long line of artists, reformers, writers and filmmakers of international repute such as Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa, Satyajit Ray, Amitav Ghosh....
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Women in Aerospace: A Chat with a Space Lawyer
Tell us about yourself? I am a Romanian based in Dubai since 2011. Apart from working as a lawyer corporate / commercial / dispute resolution / international transactions), I am a professor at the University of Wollongong, Dubai, teaching International Law, Diplomacy, Business Law and few other related subjects. You hold a unique specialty in...
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Empowering women through innovation
Education, awareness and innovation can play a pivotal role in changing the patriarchal mindset of societies. Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF), recently concluded a groundbreaking initiative that invited technologists, designers, communicators to propose ideas, suggestion that could empower women to #TakeBackTheWheel. Founder and CEO, Athar Osama sheds light on PIF’s pioneering efforts that is poised to bring...