Women of the Middle East

Thank you for listening to Women of the Middle East, Season 4. This episode is a short recap looking back at our guests, their feminist perspective and their stories. I hope you will join us for Season 5, coming soon! Our Social Media Handles: Website:  https://linktr.ee/wme_podcast  |   https://amalalmalki.com/   Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/wmepodcast LinkedIn:   https://www.linkedin.com...

Nisreen Haj Ahmad is the director & co-founder of Ahel, a social enterprise that offers community organizing and leadership training and coaching. It partners with constituency groups and organizations to build their power and help them run grassroots campaigns. She is coaching grassroots campaigns and leaders in Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. Social Media Handles: Website:  https://ah...

About the guest: Naza Alakija is an Iranian humanitarian and an adviser to a number of leading global institutions. She is the Founder & CEO of Sage Foundation, an NGO which works across the pillars of education, the support of women & girls, and climate action. Naza is an advocate for girls’ access to education and is dedicated to funding innovative grassroots movements that deliver holis...

About the guest: Aziza Nait Sibaha was born in Morocco, where she began her career as a journalist in 1997. She is both a Senior TV Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at the Paris-based France 24 news channel, Sciences-Po, and Harvard Alumna. She is also a Public Speaking trainer and a gender diversity advocate. as well as the founder of Taja Sport; a media platform created in March 2021 that is dedicated...

About the guest: Diana Moukalled is a Lebanese journalist, feminist, and documentary producer/director with almost 30 years of experience in the media industry and writing and producing stories in the Middle East. As one of the leading female war correspondents in the Arab world, her war coverages included Lebanon, Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), and Yemen (2015). Diana is also a co-founder and M...

About the guest: Her Highness Sheikha Intisar Al Sabah is a Kuwaiti philanthropist, author, columnist, social entrepreneur, film producer, founder & CEO, and princess of the House of Al-Sabah, the ruling family of Kuwait. She is committed to philanthropic excellence with respect to her vision of fostering Peace in the Arab world and beyond. Social Media Handles: Twitter:   @intisaralsabah Inst...

About the guest:   Honey is co-founder of women’s football in Palestine, the first captain of the Palestinian national football team, the first woman in the Middle East to obtain a FIFA Master’s and to be employed by FIFA (Fédération International de Football Association). Honey is a role model to women and girls throughout the Arab world and an inspiration to all who dream to live life abundantly...

Our Guest Info: HH AlSayyida Basma Al Said, born to a mother from the UK and an Omani father, is a well-established Mental Health Clinical Counselor & hypnotherapist, and PTSD trainer with over 21 years of experience seeing and treating patients with a wide array of disorders. She is the founder of “ Whispers of Serenity”;  Oman’s first-of-its-kind mental health clinic & holistic well-bein...

Born to a Welsh mother and an Egyptian father, Dr. Shereen is a British, Egyptian, and Canadian intimate-rights advocate, author, and activist working on issues related to health and social welfare in the Arab region -- including intimate attitudes toward sexual (and political) freedoms   Social media handles are: Twitter and Insta: @shereenelfeki TikTok: ShereenElFeki Facebook: Shereen El Feki Li...

Kuwaiti- Palestinian author of her latest book “ Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness ”, academic scholar, and Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait.   Guest Socials: @DrShahdals

The first episode of: Dr. Amal’s conversation with Feature MEP Hannah Neumann.   More about our guest: Hannah Neumann is the peace and human rights spokesperson of "The Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA)", Vice-Chair of the Human Rights Committee (DROI), member of the Committee on Security and Defence Policy (SEDE) and substitute in the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) as well as head of the d...

Today’s episode is featuring Ola Shahba!   Get to know more about our guest: A social activist who contributed in founding   more than one political group, including a left-wing party that emerged after the January revolution. She was also an organizing member of other formations and youth movements. A Trainer from the Informal Education Authority, forms and objects of origin from the organization...

Aisha is one of Qatar’s most popular singers and songwriters, with her talent, drive, and passion have led to headlining performances around the world, including at the United Nations General Assembly in New York and at the grand opening of Doha Festival City.     Check out our guest’s socials: Instagram: @aishaofcl Twitter: @aishaofcl Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aishaofcl Youtube: https://...

  Banan Abu Zain Eddin is a feminist activist, co-founder, and executive director of Takatoat feminist collective and advocacy and gender trainer. She is a holder of a Diploma degree in Management of Non-Profit institutions and is currently pursuing a second Bachelor in Law.  Banan have more than eight years of experience working in the civil society and humanitarian field. She is the co-founder o...

Banan Abu Zain Eddin is a feminist activist, co-founder, and executive director of Takatoat feminist collective and advocacy and gender trainer. She is a holder of a Diploma degree in Management of Non-Profit institutions and is currently pursuing a second Bachelor in Law.  Banan have more than eight years of experience working in the civil society and humanitarian field. She is the co-founder of...

Nourah Al-Sulaiman is the Student Outreach Manager for the Ensaniyat Project, a Migrant-Rights. Org initiative. Nourah was able to identify injustices around her from a young age. Acknowledging the privilege she had being a Kuwaiti in the Gulf, she made it her mission to make sure injustices faced by marginalized groups in the region are addressed. Using the power of dialogue in shaping societies,...

Our guest for the second episode of season 03 is Khawla Ksiksi.   Khawla Ksiksi is co-founder of the collective “Voices of Tunisian Black Women”. She is a lawyer by training and head of programmes at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. She works mainly on environmental justice and natural resources and is heavily involved in the feminist, intersectional anti-racist struggle.   She is a Tunisian jurist,...

Empower Now: Social Impact Women at the Frontlines: Leading the Battle Against Covid-19 by Rita Rhayem   Rita Rhayem Instagram: @rita.rhayem Twitter: @ritarhayem Humanitarian worker, Women's rights & youth advocate #CaritasLebanon   https://web.facebook.com/pg/Dr-Rita-Rhayem-611082642883935/posts/   Moderator: Hanane Benkhollouk   Notable mentions:   Dagmar Symes  Rita Rhayem Hanane Benkhollou...

Women Enacting Social Impact: Gender Based Violence In collaboration with Executive Women Today's episode features Ghida Anani (@ ghidaanani) Founder & Director of ABAAD Twitter: @GhidaAnani ABAAD https://www.abaadmena.org   Web  |  Facebook  |  YouTube  |  Twitter   @abaadmena @AbaadMENA   Other notable speakers of this season: Dagmar Symes  Rita Rhayem Hanane Benkhollouk Executive-women.me  ...

About Executive Women: Since its launching in 2013 in the UAE, Executive-Women has been portraying inspiring and innovative women entrepreneurs, who are changing the face of business by fearlessly daring to pursue their dreams. These Women have emotional strength and intelligence, enabling them to balance a family life with their social lives, while also aiming for higher career goals. We celebrat...

Get to know our episode’s speaker and moderator: Dagmar Symes Dagmar ’s first General Manager position was at Hotel Chateau Grand Barrail in Saint Emilion, France. She then spent 12 years in a managerial capacity in the luxury jewelry business and worked in flagship stores of renowned brands such as BVLGARI and Louis Vuitton in France and Germany where she held the position of Marketing Director,...

Randa Siniora is the General Director of the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC). She is a human rights and women’s rights activists with a professional experience in the field of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law for over 35 years. Earlier, she was the Senior Executive Director of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) from 2007 to 2015 and t...

An episode created to celebrate women everywhere!   Happy international women’s day to you all!     Get to know all the feminists featured in our podcast episode:   Banan AbuZainEddin  CO-FOUNDER & Executive Director  Takatoat | Amman | Jordan   Socials: Facebook| Banan Abo Zain Aldeen Twitter|  @abuzaineddin Instagram| abuzaineddin   Samia Malki   President of Kadirat. Member of the Board of...

Our guests: Dr Al-Sharekh is the Director of Ibtkar Strategic Consultancy leading political, leadership and diversity training programs in Kuwait and the GCC region, and has held senior consultative and teaching positions in academic, governmental and non-governmental institutions in the Arabian Gulf and abroad, and is a board member of several academic and non-governmental organisations. She is c...

Get to know our Episode guest: Zeina is a feminist and human rights advocate with a BS in Biology (2002) and Masters in Public Health (2004) from The American University of Beirut. Zeina is a certified gender trainer from KIT University- Amsterdam and have been working with International Organizations for the past 10 years as a development and gender expert. She has extensive experience in program...