• Ananke Announces Literature Festival Celebrating Inclusion

    Ananke Announces Literature Festival Celebrating Inclusion

    February 7th, 2021, Dubai (UAE): Ananke, a digital platform, empowering women through awareness, advocacy and education, has announced the Women in Literature Festival 2021, planned to be held in the month of March. The Festival is a celebration of the literary genius, creative journeys and lived artistic experiences of...
  • UAE Based Female Producers Awarded MBEs on New Year 2021 Honors List

    UAE Based Female Producers Awarded MBEs on New Year 2021 Honors List

    January 3rd, 2020, Dubai (UAE): – Sisters Grimm Co-founders Pietra Mello-Pittman and Ella Spira have been awarded MBEs for ‘Services to International Trade and to the Creative Industries’ in the New Year Honours list which recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom....
  • Winter Tales

    Winter Tales

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  • Be Fearless: Give Yourself Permission To Be You

    Be Fearless: Give Yourself Permission To Be You

    What happens when a girl from the slums dares to dream? She bags an Engineering Degree, and Executive Education from Harvard Business School, becomes a Telecoms Head, and mentors others to do the same. In Be Fearless: Give Yourself Permission To Be You, Jane Egerton-Idehen draws from her over...
  • Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi

    Fostering Gender Equality in Publishing

    The event promotes equality during the opening of the PublisHer summit with global female literati.   November 11th, 2019, Sharjah (UAE): Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Vice President of International Publishers Association (IPA), and founder of PublisHer, has said that women stand on the brink of welcoming a new...
  • Emirati Women Create Unique Hand-crafted Collections through Irthi’s ‘Design Labs’

    September 11th, 2019, Sharjah (UAE):Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council (Irthi), an affiliate of NAMA Women Advancement Establishment, brought together young Emirati women to train with international designers to create handmade products that merge local and international crafts. The women, aged 18-35, were trained in eight different crafts and techniques through...
  • Performative Feminism

    The article was previously published in our special Women's Day edition, published on ISSUU. Feminism as a movement has undergone a series of evolutions in terms of how activism is carried out. In its early stages, during the 19th and 20th century, it was associated with the temperance and...
  • ABAAD: In Valiant Pursuit of Gender Equality

    ABAAD’s campaign under the title “A White Dress Doesn’t cover the Rape” during the 16 days of Activism to end violence against women, as part of the process of demanding the abolishment of article 522 of the Lebanese Penal Code ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality is a...
  • MA’AN Authority reveals mission to make a social impact in Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Ma’an invites communities to find solutions to social challenges and grow the “third sector” in Abu Dhabi Ma’an will encourage the development of more community-based organizations and promote collaboration across sectors of society   April 22nd, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): Supporting the growth of the community, developing innovative solutions for...
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