Qiyada Emerging Leaders is a tailored leadership program aimed at empowering top Emirati talent October 30th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): McKinsey & Company has announced the launch of a new leadership development program designed to unlock the leadership potential of top Emirati professionals in Abu Dhabi. The intensive one-year program is set to commence in...
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Refugee Team Hope claim victory at third annual global robotics event
October 29th, 2019, Dubai (UAE): Team Hope led the winning four-team alliance to a dramatic victory in the grand final of the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai. The third edition of the annual robotics competition the first to be hosted outside the Americas drew the participation of more than 1,500 students from...
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Author, Critic Yumna Al Eid Named SIBF 2019 Cultural Personality of the Year
October 29th, 2019, Sharjah (UAE): The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has announced Lebanese author and critic Dr Yumna Al Eid (also known as Hikmat Sabbagh) as the Cultural Personality of the Year at the 38th edition of Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF), which will run from October 30 to November 9 at Expo Centre Sharjah,...
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Young Leaders Unite in Morocco for Fellowship on Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
October 29th, 2019, New York (USA): Today, the Open Hands Initiative (OHI) has launched an international fellowship to foster dialogue and goodwill between students and young leaders from the U.S. and Morocco. The “Salaam Fellowship for Conflict Resolution” being held in the cities of Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakesh, Morocco, is aimed at providing critical skills in...
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Meet the female STEM role models redefining femininity in the sciences
October 27th, 2019, Dubai (UAE): Sofia Nanjari was just nine when she was introduced to robotics. She overheard her brother, then an engineering first-year undergraduate student, complain about how hard robotics programming was. She later went on to YouTube for tutorial videos, and the first thing she ever learned to build and program were traffic light...
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India’s Geared-Up Girls on a mission to promote STEM
October 27TH, 2019, Dubai (UAE): Members of Geared-Up Girls have been lugging their robot, Shakti (the Sanskrit word for power), around in a suitcase all morning for practice at Festival Arena, frantically adding tweaks to improve the consistency and reliability of the prototype. The all-girl team representing India at the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai...
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Afghan all-girls team challenge status quo to compete in robotics contest
October 27th, 2019, Dubai (UAE): The Afghanistan booth at the FIRST Global Challenge 2019 in Dubai is packed, with hardly any space to move. The all-teenage-girl Afghan Dreamers team are being filmed for a documentary and trailed everywhere by a camera crew while curious bystanders look on. The girls first garnered global attention in 2017 when...
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Ending Child Marriage in Tanzania
One of the biggest wins against child marriages in Africa was achieved on October 23, 2019, by the Supreme Court of Appeals when it upheld a 2016 landmark ruling which had raised the minimum marriage to 18 years. Hailed by women and child welfare advocates as a groundbreaking milestone, Ann Sangai, Tanzania Gender Networking Program...
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Mastercard Expands Commitment to Global Development of Women
October 24th, 2019, Washington DC, (USA): Today, Mastercard announces partnerships with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and CARE USA, which will create new models and tools to financially include women, micro-entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers across the world. Expand Mastercards commitment to the U.S. Governments Womens Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP), the first...
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She is Arab Launches in UAE
October 23rd, 2019, Dubai (UAE): She is Arab, the first dedicated speakers platform for Arab women in the world launched today in the UAE as its first country of operation in line with the countrys commitment to gender equality. Incubated at In5 Tech in Dubai Internet City, its vision is to be the new voice...