Doctor? Engineer? As Dreams Fade, Afghan Girls Turn To Madrasas
New
Age Islam News Bureau
16
February 2023
• Iranian
Chess Player in Exile, Sara Khadem, Says She Has No Regrets about Removing
Hijab
• Iran
Protests: Female Journalists Targeted In Spate of Arrests
• 3
Saudi Women Feel Proud Of Representing Homeland in Succoring Quake Victims
• Women
Empowerment Receives Special Attention from Political Leadership in Egypt: NCW
• 13
Egyptian Women on Forbes Middle East 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen 2023
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Doctor? Engineer? As Dreams Fade, Afghan Girls Turn To Madrasas
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Copyright Thomson Reuters 2023
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16
February, 2023
By
Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar
KANDAHAR,
Afghanistan (Reuters) – In a chilly classroom in the southern Afghan province
of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement, teenage girls pore over
Islamic texts as the disembodied voice of a male scholar emanates from a loud
speaker.
Pupils
take turns to email questions to the scholar on the class laptop at the
Taalum-ul-Islam Girls’ Madrasa, or religious school, where male teachers are
forbidden from hearing the voices of female students in person.
The
number of students at the institution in Kandahar city has about doubled to
around 400 in the past year, driven by the Taliban administration’s decision to
bar girls and women from most secular high schools and universities, according
to staff members who gave Reuters rare access to the madrasa in December.
Other
female religious schools across Afghanistan have also seen marked increases in
enrolment, Reuters learned from visits to four madrasas – two in Kandahar and
two in the capital Kabul – and interviews with more than 30 students, parents,
teachers and officials in 10 provinces spread across the country.
“Due
to the closing of schools, the number of students has increased by around 40%,”
said Mansour Muslim, who runs a madrasa mainly for teenage girls in north
Kabul. “We now have around 150 students.”
One
of the students at the school, 17-year-old Mursal, said she had joined three
months ago. While she welcomed the religious learning, she said she found her
situation limiting.
“I
want to finish my schooling,” said Mursal, whose parents asked for her surname
to be withheld to protect her privacy. “I wanted to be a doctor in the future,
but now I think it’s impossible. If you come to a madrasa you just can be a
teacher.”
The
Taliban regained power in August 2021 after the sudden withdrawal of U.S.-led
forces. The new government has the stated goal of building an Islamic society
based on sharia law following 20 years of comparatively liberal Western-backed
rule.
Abdul
Maten Qanee, the spokesman for the information ministry, told Reuters the government
was not opposed to girls having secondary and tertiary education. He said there
were several issues to be overcome, though, including the problem of some
mixed-gender institutions, girls not meeting some interpretations of Islamic
dress, and girls not being accompanied by male guardians.
“We
fought for 20 years for our ideology and values,” he said. “We are not against
education, we just want rules to be followed and implemented, and the culture,
traditions and values of Afghans to be considered. We want females to have a
modern education, society needs this,” he said.
Qanee
said madrasas were open for girls of all ages. He added that a government
committee was looking into adding secular subjects to madrasas alongside
religious study, a development that hasn’t been previously reported. He didn’t
provide further details on the committee’s work.
Female
education lies at the heart of the Taliban administration’s standoff with the
West. No foreign nation formally recognises the administration, with Washington
citing women’s rights as a major obstacle to normalising ties and unlocking
much-needed funds.
The
U.S. State Department declined to comment directly on girls’ attendance of
madrasas. A spokesperson, referring to the school restrictions, said education
was an internationally recognized human right and essential to Afghanistan’s
economic growth.
‘ISLAM
GIVES US RIGHT’
The
rise in mainly teenage girls enrolling in religious schools, a trend whose
scale hasn’t been previously detailed, often fills a need for learning,
friendships and a reason to get out of the house, according to the people
interviewed.
Yet
some students say these institutions, which are devoted to the study of the
Koran and Islamic texts, will not help them fulfil their ambitions.
Madrasas,
part of Afghan life for centuries, usually don’t offer the secular secondary
and tertiary education needed to pursue careers such as law, medicine,
engineering and journalism – the kind of education that’s still available to
Afghan boys.
“I
joined the madrasa because at home we couldn’t study and our schools are
closed, so I came to learn the Koran,” said Mahtab, a 15-year-old pupil at
Mansour Muslim’s Kabul madrasa. “I wanted to be an engineer in the future. I
don’t think I can reach my dream.”
Marzia
Noorzai, a 40-year-old women’s rights activist in the southwestern province of
Farah, said her nieces, who would have graduated from high school last year,
were now attending a local madrasa every day.
“Just
to keep them busy,” she said. “Because they were depressed.”
Other
students and teachers said Islamic education played an important role in their
lives, though they hoped to be able to study secular subjects too.
A
senior teacher in her early 20s at the Taalum-ul-Islam madrasa, where Reuters
was given access on condition it didn’t identify students or staff to protect
their privacy, said religious education gave her a sense of happiness and
peace.
“Islam
gives us rights as women,” she added. “I want those rights, not the idea of
(Western) women’s rights.”
Asked
about the trend of girls attending religious schools in greater numbers after
the school ban, Taliban official Qanee said the number of madrasas had been
expanding under the previous government and would continue to expand under the
Taliban because Afghanistan was an Islamic country. He didn’t elaborate on the
government’s plans for religious schools.
The
previous foreign-backed government said in January 2021 that they had
registered about 5,000 madrasas nationwide, with total enrolment of about 380,000
students, of whom around 55,000 were female. About a fifth of the registered
schools were operated by the state, it said, adding that there were likely to
be many more unregistered institutions.
Reuters
was unable to determine the current number of madrasas, and Taliban authorities
have not provided figures.
‘OPTIONS
ARE EVAPORATING’
Life
has changed for many girls and women.
The
Taliban administration barred females students from most high schools last
March, and from universities in December. Days after the universities decision,
it banned most Afghan women from working for NGOs, leaving thousands of
educated women unable to do their jobs and forcing many aid groups to partially
suspend operations during a humanitarian crisis.
The
secondary education ban alone has affected more than 1 million girls, UNICEF
said in its Afghanistan annual report for 2022. This has compounded an existing
“education crisis”, the U.N. children’s agency added, with an estimated 2.4
million girls already out of school at the beginning of 2022.
Thousands
of primary schools, some of them fee-paying, remain open for boys and girls up
to the age of about 12, teaching subjects including Dari, Pashto, English,
maths and science.
Madrasas
themselves vary widely, from big institutions hosting hundreds of pupils in
cities to village mosques teaching a handful of children. The schools, which
are typically single-sex, also vary in standards, strictness, the number of
days and hours they’re open as well as the fees they charge.
The
fees charged by the madrasas visited by Reuters ranged from the equivalent of
around 50 cents to $2 per month per student. That is a prohibitive cost for
many families in Afghanistan, where the U.N. says most people live in poverty,
although some village madrasas are free.
Female
madrasas usually have female teaching staff, though male religious scholars
tend to guide their work in more traditional institutions like the one in Kandahar.
Ashley
Jackson, co-director of the Centre on Armed Groups who has researched Taliban
policies on education, said while madrasas couldn’t take the place of formal
schools, they were one of the final avenues of learning left for girls and
women.
“The
options for female education are evaporating,” said Jackson, adding that formal
schools were seen among some Taliban supporters as a symbol of international
occupation. “There’s deep-seated mistrust of the formal education sector,
despite the fact that it too incorporates Islamic education.”
Not
everyone within the administration agrees with the education restrictions. Four
officials, who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter,
told Reuters they privately backed secondary education for girls and that
supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and his close advisers had driven the
school ban.
Akhundzada,
who is based in Kandahar and rarely appears in public, could not be reached for
comment on any tensions within the administration over female education.
Requests for comment to Akhundzada and other officials are handled by the
Taliban administration spokesman, who didn’t comment on this matter.
Source:
The Print
https://theprint.in/world/doctor-engineer-as-dreams-fade-afghan-girls-turn-to-madrasas/1375346/
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Iranian
Chess Player in Exile, Sara Khadem, Says She Has No Regrets about Removing
Hijab
Iranian
chess player Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, 25, better known as Sara Khadem plays
chess after an interview with Reuters in southern Spain February 15, 2023.
REUTERS/Jon Nazca
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15 February,
2023
An
Iranian chess player, who moved to Spain after she competed without a hijab and
had an arrest warrant issued against her back home, has no regrets over her
bold gesture in support of the protest movement against her country’s clerical
leadership.
But
25-year-old Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, better known as Sara Khadem, also told
Reuters that the warrant, which made her return to Iran impossible, was “the
most horrible thing” that happened to her.
She
said that, after playing in December’s FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess
Championships in Kazakhstan’s Almaty without the headscarf mandatory under
Iran’s strict Islamic dress code, she had hardly expected harsher reprisals
than a travel ban.
“(As
chess players) we always have to predict what is going to happen next, but...it
didn’t go as I expected,” she told Reuters at an undisclosed location in
southern Spain where she now lives with her film-maker husband and child.
Khadem,
who arrived in Spain in January on a residence visa linked to the purchase of
property, said Iranian authorities had told her to record a video saying that
she regretted her actions as a condition of returning home.
She
refused, and subsequently learned about the warrant.
Still,
removing the hijab was “something that I thought was right to do and I don’t
regret anything,” she said, adding that she only used to wear the headscarf at
tournaments when there were cameras, and that many Iranian sportswomen felt the
same way.
“But
it (no hijab) has become one of the symbols of the movement in Iran and I also
decided to finally do something that I wanted to, to be myself...I was
motivated by the people of Iran.”
Laws
enforcing mandatory hijab-wearing have become a flashpoint during the unrest
that has swept Iran since mid-September when a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish
woman, Mahsa Amini, died in the custody of the morality police.
Khadem
said Mahsa’s death “made us all heartbroken,” inspiring many to protest. A
string of sportswomen competing overseas have since appeared without their
headscarves in public.
“There
are lots of things that people are not happy about at the moment, so even if
this time it doesn’t change anything, I think there will come a time when
people will rise up again,” said Khadem, who does not consider herself a
political activist, but wants to be a voice for change.
Ranked
774th in the world and 9th in Iran, Khadem plans to keep playing under the
Iranian flag, but has received proposals from other countries.
She
said political sanctions against sportspeople from countries such as Russia
were often unfair, and bans on their participation in tournaments were causing
suffering.
“I
know that many of the athletes are not responsible for what is happening in
their countries,” she added.
Source:
Al Arabiya
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Iran
protests: Female journalists targeted in spate of arrests
By
Feranak Amidi
Female
journalists in Iran have been targeted by security forces since anti-government
protests began in September, activist groups say.
Figures
vary, but at least 17 have been arrested, an international group for press
freedom says. Another puts the number about three times that or more.
Iran
has been gripped by some of the biggest protests it has seen since the Islamic
Republic was founded in 1979.
Nearly
20,000 people are estimated to have been detained since September.
More
than 520 protesters have been killed by security forces in that time, according
to the Iranian Human Rights Activists' News Agency (Hrana).
The
most recent arrest of a female journalist was that of Elnaz Mohammadi, who
works for the reformist newspaper Hammihan. She was released on bail on Sunday.
Ms
Mohammadi is the twin sister of Elaheh Mohammadi, who works for the same
newspaper and was arrested on 29 September last year. She was detained for her
reporting on the funeral of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman
whose death in police custody on 16 September sparked the protests. Ms Amini
had been detained for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.
A
week before Elnaz Mohammadi was arrested, three other female journalists -
Melika Hashemi, Saideh Shafiei and Mehrnoosh Zareie - were detained within the
space of 48 hours.
"We're
seeing an unusual number of female journalists being arrested because what
sparked the protests was the mandatory hijab law and the death of a young woman
because of gender discrimination," Yeganeh Rezaian, a researcher with the
Washington-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told the BBC.
"Naturally
more female journalists were covering the story. Even in small towns and local
newspapers women were reporting on the women-led protests that were taking
place," she said.
Indeed
the first journalist to publish a photo of Mahsa Amini was Niloufar Hamedi. She
was arrested on 22 September and is still behind bars.
The
CPJ estimates that at least 98 journalists and bloggers have been arrested,
half of whom, it says, are women.
Reporters
Without Borders (RSF), an international advocacy group for journalistic
freedom, estimates that 55 journalists have been arrested since the start of
the protests, 27 of whom are still being held with others released on bail
awaiting sentencing.
RSF
says 17 female journalists have been arrested since the start of the uprising,
the highest number in a five-month period in the history of the Islamic Republic.
RSF's
World Press Freedom Index puts Iran among the world's worst 10 countries for
freedom of press.
Media
in Iran are largely controlled by the state, and even so-called
"independent" newspapers are heavily censored. Journalists inside
Iran are barred from covering the protests or the funerals of protesters who
have been killed.
Mrs
Rezaian says that is why "many of the journalists have been arrested for
their tweets and social media posts about the protests".
On
28 January, Nazila Maroofian, the first journalist to publish online an
interview with Mahsa Amini's father, tweeted that she had been sentenced to two
years in prison, fined and banned from leaving the country for five years.
She
said she had been convicted of "anti-government propaganda and spreading
false news" without a hearing and in absence of a lawyer.
Article
24 of Iran's constitution guarantees press freedom. But a 1986 press law, later
amended to take account of online publications, allows the authorities to
ensure that journalists do not "endanger the Islamic Republic",
"do not offend the clergy and the Supreme Leader" and do not
"spread false information".
It
means journalists who challenge the official narrative of the state in any way
can be targeted.
"Most
of the arrests happen in the middle of the night," says Mrs Rezaian.
"Security forces raid the homes of journalists, confiscating their
[electronic] devices and the devices of their family members, mostly without
showing a warrant."
Because
most of the raids happen without a warrant, Mrs Rezaian says "families
often don't know which organisation is responsible for the arrests and where
their loved ones are being taken".
But
based on information from the CPJ, the intelligence branch of the Revolutionary
Guards is behind the arrests.
Source:
BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64584265
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3
Saudi women feel proud of representing homeland in succoring quake victims
February
14, 2023
GAZIANTEP,
Turkey — Three Saudi women volunteers were overwhelmed with mixed emotions of
joy and grief when they shared their experiences of getting a chance to lend a
helping hand to the victims of the earthquake that rattled several regions of
Turkey.
“We
are immensely proud to represent Saudi Arabia and provide assistance to the
worst affected Turkish people,” they said while engaged in rescue and relief
work in a region where hundreds of civilians were killed or injured in the
disaster.
The
women are Mouda Al-Bareedi, Sharifa Youssef, and Rahaf Al-Obeid. Mouda and her
female companions are in the forefront of international relief and rescue
workers who toil in rendering tireless services to the injured or the families
of the deceased victims.
Mouda
and the entire Saudi team move in the quake-hit areas by pronouncing the
Turkish word “Saudi Arabistan” to show that they came from Saudi Arabia to help
them. The motto of the Saudi team on Turkish soil is “Giving sans borders for the
sake of humanity.”
Speaking
to Okaz/Saudi Gazette from Gaziantep, they said that they represent the entire
people of Saudi Arabia, which is the Kingdom of humanity.
“When
I climbed the plane ladder in my first foreign mission as part of the Saudi Red
Crescent team, I felt extremely proud at the prospect of representing my
country, Saudi Arabia, on board a humanitarian mission,” said Rahaf, who sees
her passion in volunteering.
Rahaf
joined the Saudi Red Crescent, after completing her studies in emergency
medicine. “I am ready to engage in relief and rescue work so as to provide
everything needed by the earthquake victims in Turkey.”
Rahaf,
who speaks Turkish, was overwhelmed with happiness in getting the opportunity
to help those in distress, despite the heavy odds, including the bitter cold.
She is actively engaged in giving first aid to the quake victims.
Rahaf
believes that happiness lies in giving for free, and this is what brought her
to Turkey on her first foreign trip, after she received the highest-level
training in dealing with crises and disasters.
On
her part, Sharifa believes that no matter how much she offers to alleviate the
suffering of the quake victims, she feels that she finds deficiency in
humanitarian work. For her, the sky is the limit for giving.
Before
leaving Riyadh for Turkey, Sharifa received a huge dose of moral support from
her family, who sees this as a deed involving great pride.
“This
is what drives her to work with dedication and sincerity as part of an elegant
team, led by Abdullah Al-Ruwaili, a high-spirited engineer who is an embodiment
of altruism and empathy,” she added.
Source:
Saudi Gazette
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Women
empowerment receives special attention from political leadership in Egypt: NCW
February
15, 2023
As
the chair of the 8th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC)
Ministerial Conference on Women, Egypt is focused on the economic empowerment
of women as the essential foundation for establishing the principles of gender
equality, said Nada Draz, member of the National Council for Women in Egypt
(NCW).
Draz
was speaking on behalf of NCW President Maya Morsy, chair of 8th session of the
OIC Ministerial Conference on Women, during a virtual session held on Tuesday
14/2/2023 as part of the 8th meeting of the conference advisory committee on
women to review the progress made on women empowerment issues in OIC member
states.
She
started by offering the deepest condolences to the Syrian the Turkish peoples
over the victims of the destructive earthquake that hit southeastern Turkey
along its borders with Syria last week.
Draz
said the issue of women empowerment receives special attention from the
political leadership in Egypt, which is manifested in Egypt’s interest in
hosting the 8th OIC Ministerial Conference on Women, as well as the
headquarters of the Women Development Organization (WDO), the first
OIC-affiliated body specialized in promoting and protecting the rights of
women.
Egypt
has spared no effort to provide the WDO with necessary technical and logistical
support, Draz said, citing directives by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to pay
the annual contributions allocated for WDO, set to be paid by the least
developed countries, whether those who signed WDO articles of association, or others
who have not but are planning to join the organization.
Draz
highlighted the fiscal and economic policies Egypt has recently introduced to
empower women economically and ensure that they have adequate job opportunities
as casual workers.
She
also touched upon Egypt’s efforts to mitigate the economic impact of the
COVID-19 pandemic on women, while protecting women against all forms of
violence, and supporting women’s health.
Source:
Egypt Independent
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13
Egyptian women on Forbes Middle East 100 Most Powerful businesswomen 2023
Zeinab
El-Gundy
The
list was prepared by the famous financial magazine's Middle East edition
according to the size of the business, the individual’s impact and
achievements, performance over the last year, and the scope of CSR and other
initiatives led by the person.
The
100-entry list included 104 women from 27 different sectors and 27
nationalities.
The
UAE and Egypt scored the most entries at 15 and 12, respectively, followed by
Saudi Arabia (11) , Kuwait (eight), and six from each of Lebanon, Qatar and
Oman.
Egyptian
businesswomen are no strangers to the list, having topped the list in previous
years in terms of the number of entries.
In
2021, Egyptian businesswomen topped the list with eight entries, and in 2022
they had seven entries.
Below
Ahram Online sheds light on the Egyptian businesswomen who made it to the list:
Dalia
El-Baz (13th on the list)
An
American University in Cairo alumna, El-Baz is the executive deputy chairman of
the National Bank of Egypt (NBE).
El-Baz,
who has been on the list before, posseses 28 years of experience in the banking
sector.
She
joined Egypt’s largest bank in terms of assets in 2008 as head of the
operational risk management group, becoming Chief Operating officer (COO) in
December 2015.
In
2016, she was appointed on the bank’s executive committee.
In
September 2017, she became the first woman to become the executive deputy
chairman of the NBE.
Pakinam
Kafafi (21st on the list)
A
Cairo University graduate, Pakinam Kafafi started her career in finance and
banking at EFG-Hermes in the mid-1990s, rising to the position of vice
president in 2000.
She
then moved to the oil and energy sector.
In
2003, Kafafi was appoointed the strategy and investment general manager of Gas
& Energy Group (GENCO).
When
Citadel Group acquired GENCO and merged it with TAQA Arabia, Kafafi maintained
her role.
In
April 2013, Pakinam Kafafi was selected as the company’s CEO.
Rawya
Mansour (27th on the list)
A
Cairo university graduate, Rawya Mansour proved herself one of Egypt’s leading
businesswomen.
Mansour
is a descendant from one of Egypt's oldest families in the field of business.
In
1999, she founded RAMSCO for Refined Architecture and Interior Design.
In
2007, she started RAMSCO for Trade and Distribution.
She
also established the Organic Agriculture for Social International Solidarity
(OASIS) in Monaco in 2012.
Reem
Asaad (39th on the list)
An
Egyptian American, Reem Asaad is a Harvard business school graduate who
continued her career in Egypt when she served as the CEO of Raya Data Center
from January 2012 till December 2016.
From
January 2017 to February 2020, Asaad served as Raya Contact Center CEO befor
In
2020, she was appointed Cisco Middle East and Africa Vice President.
Cisco
employs 3,000 people and contractors in 74 countries across the Middle East and
Africa.
In
March 2021, she was appointed by Egypt’s Minister of Communications and
Information Technology to serve on the board of directors for the country’s
Information Technology Industry Development Agency.
Hend
El-Sherbini (42nd on the list)
A
graduate of Cairo University, Dr Hend El-Sherbini is a professor of clinical
pathology at the University’s Faculty of Medicine.
El-Sherbini
served as the CEO of Al-Mokhtabar between 2004 and 2012.
She
has been seving as IDH Group’s CEO since 2012.
IDH
has a network of 546 branch labs as of September 2022 in Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan
and Pakistan.
The
group recorded revenues of $281 million in 2021 and $143 million in the first
nine months of 2022.
In
August 2022, El-Sherbini increased her holdings in the group with 7.3 million
additional shares through Hena Holdings.
Now,
she owns 26.71 percent of the group.
Farida
and Yasmine Khamis (43rd on the list)
The
daughters of the famous Egyptian carpets tycoon, Farida and Yasmine Khamis are
considered veterans of the Forbes list.
American
University of Cairo alumni, Yasmine Khamis is currently the Chairwoman of
Oriental Weavers Group, while her sister Farida is her vice-chair.
Both
sisters made headlines last December when they transferred their combined
24.61percent stake in Oriental Weavers Carpet to London-based FYK limited,
which is fully owned by them.
They
are also board members of the British University in Cairo .
Mona
Zulficar (48th on the list)
The
famous renowned lawyer and human rights activist is the Forbes Middle East 100
women list veteran who has appeared constantly on the list since it started.
A
Cairo University graduate, Zulficar is a veteran corporate, banking, and
project finance attorney and human rights activist.
She
cofounded Zulficar & Partners in 2009. Mona Zulficar chaired EFG Hermes
Holding since 2008 and the Egyptian Microfinance Federation since 2015.
Mona
Zulficar is currently a member of Egypt’s National Council of Human Rights.
Elham
Mahfouz (56th on the list)
An
AUC alumna, Elham Mahfouz has over 30 years of banking experience mostly in
Kuwait.
Mahfouz
has been the CEO of the Commercial Bank of Kuwait (Al-Tijari) since 2014.
Al-Tijari
recorded $179 million in net profit and $14.1 billion worth of total assets in
2021.
Mahfouz
is a member of the supervisory board of the American University of Kuwait.
Hilda
Louca (62nd on the list)
A
graduate of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, Transport and Maritime
Transport, Hilda Louca is a newcomer to the list.
Louca
started her career in Lufthansa’s customer service before moving to become a
sales marking manager at Al-Ahram Beverage Company-Heineken Egypt for three
years.
In
2018, she founded MITCHA - platform to support Egyptian designers.
Today,
the platform features 200 designers and brands.
Omnia
Kelig (84th on the list)
An
AUC alumna, Omnia Kelig is a banking and cooperate financing veteran who
started her career in the CIB in 1999.
Kelig
is currently Deputy CEO, Chairwoman and Managing Director of NAEEM Holding, a
dual-listed company on the Egyptian Stock Exchange and the Dubai Financial
Market.
In
the first nine months of 2022, NAEEM reported $8.2 million in total revenues
and $273 million in assets.
Before
joining NAEEM, Kelig was a founder and managing director of Viveris Mashrek, a
subsidiary of France’s Viveris Management.
She
was also a partner and director for Haykala Investment Management and a co-head
of investment banking at Barclays Bank in Egypt.
Abir
Leheta (87th on the list)
An
AUC alumna, Abir Leheta is another veteran on the Forbes list.
Leheta
joined the Egyptian Transport and Commercial Services Company “EgyTrans” in
1997.
She
has been EgyTrans CEO since 2017.
She
is also the chairman of Barwil Egytrans and ScanArabia.
Abeer
Helmy Saleh ( 99th on the list)
An
AUC alumna, Abeer Helmy Saleh previously held a number of managerial positions,
including managing director and board member at Wafa Life Insurance Company and
managing director of Bupa Egypt Insurance.
In
March 2022, Saleh was appointed as a Board Member & Managing Director of
Misr Life Insurance, Takaful, which was established as a joint venture between
Misr Insurance Holding Company, the National Bank of Egypt, and Banque Misr,
with a capital of over $5 million.
Source:
Ahram
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