Lifetime Achievement award presented to HH Sheikha Fatima bint Zayed bin Saqr Al Nahyan and Professor Rafia Ghabesh named Inspirational Arab Woman of the Year 2015. Held under the Patronage of the UAEs Minister of Culture, Youth, and Social Development HE Sheikh Nahayan bin Mubarak Al Nahayan, 20 inspirational women were celebrated at a glittering...
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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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Stirring all inclusive progress through tech in Palestine
Palestine is a land suffering due to conflict, dismal economy and possessing negligible opportunities. It is also a country that has witnessed tremendous growth in its IT sector, with women technologists showing resilience amid social and political restrictions, and shining bright in the digital stratosphere. Mai Temraz is one such woman! The first Palestinian female...
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ASEM: Tending Orphans of Mozambique
How does one begin to describe the plight of orphans around the world? To date, there is an estimated 150-153 million of them globally, with about 56 million of them in Sub-Saharan Africa, 5.5 million in MENA, 26.9 million in East Asia and the Pacific, 40.8 million in South Asia, 6.8 million in the former...
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Founder of Alzheimers NGO wins WOW 2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award
The World of Women (WOW) Film Fair 2015 awards night was held to honor a select group of women who are considered high achievers in five different categories: Humanitarian of the Year, Business Leader of the Year, Media Personality of the Year, Sports Leader of the Year, and Rising Talent Leader of the Year. Desirée...
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REPORT: Women Unemployment in MENA
Today, in both UN and World Bank reports, the Middle East and North Africa region scores the lowest of any global region when it comes to employment, with a rate of 10.6% across the whole region. Unemployment is particularly striking among women populations; in fact, only one in three young Arab women between the ages...
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Disrupting the Status Quo in STEM
It is a well-known fact that economic emancipation in modern society, be it on an individual or mass level, relies heavily on innovation and technological advancement. Equally important is the inclusion and active participation of women in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields both in education and vocation in order to truly...
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Women journalists: un-silent voices in the Middle East
Where freedom of expression in general is usually quelled at state level especially in some ultra-conservative Middle Eastern societies, it is hard to imagine just how women can even venture into the sometimes-frightening world of journalistic practice. And while the softening effect of a female presence in what could otherwise have been a hostile news...
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Gazan Women Enterprise: Promise & Roadblocks
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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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...