Middle East Cafe Presents: Arab Women Rising

Name: Middle East Cafe Presents: Arab Women Rising
Start: 2014-06-21T09:30:00-04:00
End: 2014-06-21T11:00:00-04:00
Location: 450K

Date and Time

Jun 21, 2014 9:30 am

Location

450K

450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001

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Description:

Join us for a discussion of Arab Women Rising:Â 35
Entrepreneurs Making a Difference in the Arab World

Recent decades have seen greatly expanded opportunities for women throughout the Arab world, leveling the playing field as never before.

In Arab Women Rising, Nafeesa Syeed and Rahilla Zafar share the entrepreneurial journeys of 35 women, from a flower farmer tending her fields in the Tunisian countryside to a Saudi royal advocating for expanded women?s rights throughout the kingdom.

This collection tells the stories of:

Pioneers who are establishing exciting technology companies in a region where mobile usage is on the upswing

Small and midsize business owners who started enterprises specializing in everything from public relations to the arts

Innovators who have rolled out new products, revamped fashions, and Â integrated new services into their industries

Visionaries tapping the big-picture potential the region holds in such growing fields as entertainment and science

Women effectively spearheading change in their communities by starting social enterprises

Inspiring and powerful, Arab Women Rising is a guide to understanding the modern business environment created and led by a new generation of women entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa.

Speakers:Â

Nafeesa SyeedÂ an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Washington. For the past decade, she's reported from across the United States, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa for major media outlets. She is currently working on her next book about Arab women in political parties.Â

Rahilla Zafar helped build and develop an entrepreneurship education curriculum for youth. In addition, she has worked in international development and spent several years reporting from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Colombia, China and across the Middle East. She's currently Â developing a mentorship platform for women entrepreneurs in the Middle East.Â

Moderator:Â

Caryle Murphy is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of ?A Kingdom?s Future: Saudi Arabia Through the Eyes of Its Twentysomethings.?

Download the e-book for free here.

Middle East Caf_ is a Busboys and Poets program that offers an on-going series of events designed to bring together Arabs, Jews, and those interested in working toward a resolution to the conflict in the Middle East. The focus is on encouraging individuals from various backgrounds to share food and conversation.