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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...
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Dubai Science Park and Covestro partner with g4g to empower girls to pursue STEM careers and build a talent pipeline in the region. October 30th, 2019, (Dubai-UAE): Dubai Science Park (DSP), a science- and healthcare-focused business community, joined forces with Covestro, one of the world’s leading polymer producers, and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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...
Dubai Science Park and Covestro partner with g4g to empower girls to pursue STEM careers and build a talent pipeline in the region. October 30th, 2019, (Dubai-UAE): Dubai Science Park (DSP), a science- and healthcare-focused business community, joined forces with Covestro, one of the world’s leading polymer producers, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
