Middle East

Success With a Sponsor: High-Tech Jordanian Woman CEO

In the Middle East, IT is largely known as a male-dominated field. But that didn’t stop Tamara Abdel-Jaber. Ten years ago, she began her own Jordanian IT company, despite others wondering what she was thinking. In fact…

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Business Women’s Network Spotlight: Jordan

As part of its core objectives and through an advocacy campaign, BPW-A was able to affect change to the laws at Greater Amman Municipality related to professional women working from home. Now…

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Developing Youth for a Richer Culture

How did she rank in the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women of 2011? Noura Al Kaabi, the CEO of twofour54, credits her family: “My family is the reason for my success. They support every step we take but never force any choice on us. It is a wonderful mix of support and freedom that I […]

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Align Your Work With Your Purpose

With the goal of being the next Pixar, Randa Ayoubi, a woman entrepreneur from Jordan cre­ated Rubi­con, a global 3D ani­ma­tion and com­puter graph­ics com­pany. As its CEO and founder, Randa transformed her small ven­ture cap­i­tal project into a booming company with five inter­na­tional branches, more than 300 employ­ees, and one mission: teaching kids through […]

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Emirati Woman’s Entrepreneurial Path Unfolds Like a Symphony

For entrepreneur and Founder and Executive Director of Centre for Musical Arts, Tala Badri, the road to her professional dreams was paved by following her passion….

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