عربي

Arab World Social Innovators Program
Innovators Profiles

A printable collection of all profiles (PDF) is also available

  • photoAli Abu Awwad (Palestine) — Creating social change through non-violent practice
  • photoAref Husseini (Palestine) — Cultivating young scientific minds and critical thinkers
  • photoEslam el-Dawy (Egypt) — Reviving traditional Berber handicraft for income generation and cultural preservation
  • photoEzzat Naem (Egypt) — Building bridges to a brighter economic future for the garbage collectors’ community in Cairo
  • photoGamal M Kamal el-Din (Egypt) — Introducing innovative technology to increase production for sugar-cane farmers in Upper Egypt
  • photoJehad HF Shejaeya (Palestine) — Overcoming unequal access to education by supporting underprivileged university students
  • photoKamal Mouzawak (Lebanon) — Supporting the small farmer and preserving food traditions
  • photoMohammed KT Zaid al-Kilany (Palestine) — Overcoming exclusion and promoting employment using mobile-phone technology
  • photoNureddin Amro (Palestine) — Building an inclusive future for the visually handicapped through integrated education
  • photoPaul Abi Rached (Lebanon) — Singing to promote environmental conservation among Lebanon’s youth
  • photoRabee’ Zureikat (Jordan) — Using “exchange development” to narrow the socio-economic divide
  • photoRaghda el-Ebrashi (Egypt) — Empowering communities to find their own locally-rooted solutions to sustainable development
  • photoRami Mehdawi (Palestine) — Creating a virtual platform to promote social change
  • photoRamzi Odah (Palestine) — Creating youth parliaments to foster a future generation of leadership
  • photoRana Dajani (Jordan) — Creating a library in every neighborhood to foster a love of reading among Jordanian children
  • photoSaadia Zrira (Morocco) — Finding sustainable solutions to poverty and environmental degradation in rural Morocco through the cultivation of indigenous plants
  • photoSameh el-Halawany (Egypt) — Using art to transform and preserve culturally-unique neighborhoods
  • photoTamer Anis (Egypt) — Overcoming stereotypes and supporting the rights of the deaf and mute
  • photoWafa Zerrouki (Morocco) — Helping women break the cycle of poverty through traditional handicraft
  • photoYounes Naoumi (Morocco) — Transforming the “youth bulge” from apathy to activism
  • photoYousef al-Deek (Palestine) — Building social cohesion and reaffirming a cultural identity through cinema
  • photoZeinab al-Momany (Jordan) — Promoting rural development for women through agricultural cooperatives


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