• Empowering Kidpreneurs

    Tell us about your professional journey, your major success and the challenges you faced along the way.  After studying Law and Politics in the UK, I stumbled into the marketing communications industry, fell in love and decided to pursue a career in it. After nine years in top international...
  • On Women and War

    “It has probably become more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in armed conflict.” (Major-General Patrick Cammaert, OHCHR.org) Introduction: Rape has always been used as a weapon of war in major wars including World War 2. However, this phenomenon has always been underreported, and denied by the...
  • Wife Inheritance in Africa

    Wife inheritance is an affliction that has gripped the African society from eons of time. Widely practiced across the entire continent, it is a tradition where a widow gets inherited by relatives of her late husband. Once thought to be an honorable practice, the custom initially entailed taking care...
  • Justina Mutale: Advancing Gender Equality

    Tell us about yourself and the journey undertaken to work for the cause of women? I have a personal and vested interest in championing the cause of women. I come from a background of strong, powerful and assertive women, who have always defied the gender dynamics. I grew up...
  • Achieving empowerment of the Arab Woman

    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...
  • Arab Woman Awards UAE announces 2015 winners

    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 UAE’s Minister of Culture, Youth, and Social Development HE Sheikh Nahayan bin Mubarak Al Nahayan, 20 inspirational...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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