Arab World Social Innovators Program
Innovators Profiles

Abdelfattah Abusrour (Palestine) — Building peace within the Palestinian community
Bader Zama’reh (Palestine) — Providing youth with educational, cultural and entertaining resources
Maher Abdel Malak (Egypt) — Advocating for legal, economic and social support for marginalized workers
Marilena di Coste (UAE) — Giving a voice to individuals with disabilites
Marwa El-Daly(Egypt) — Modernizing a traditional concept to better the community
Masood Alexander Razaq (UAE) — Promoting and enabling strategic philanthropy
Maysoun Odeh Gangat (Palestine) — Entertaining, informing and empowering Palestinian women
Ola Abu Alghaib (Palestine) — Supporting women with disabilities through advocacy, support and education

Rabeea Al Nasser (Jordan) — Introducing children to the importance of art and music
Ramez Habash (Jordan) — Promoting cultural tourism and pride in local community
Rawan Barakat (Jordan) — Producing audio books to develop listening skills in children
Sany Kozman (Egypt) — Providing comprehensive services to HIV positive individuals
Yorgui Teyrouz (Lebanon) — Providing a healthcare service for the country
Zeina Awaydate (Lebanon) — Providing support and skills to orphans
Ziad Abichaker (Lebanon) — On the path to a zero waste society

First Class (2007-2010)

Ali Abu Awwad (Palestine) — Creating social change through non-violent practice
Aref Husseini (Palestine) — Cultivating young scientific minds and critical thinkers
Eslam el-Dawy (Egypt) — Reviving traditional Berber handicraft for income generation and cultural preservation
Ezzat Naem (Egypt) — Building bridges to a brighter economic future for the garbage collectors’ community in Cairo
Gamal M Kamal el-Din (Egypt) — Introducing innovative technology to increase production for sugar-cane farmers in Upper Egypt
Jehad HF Shejaeya (Palestine) — Overcoming unequal access to education by supporting underprivileged university students
Kamal Mouzawak (Lebanon) — Supporting the small farmer and preserving food traditions
Mohammed KT Zaid al-Kilany (Palestine) — Overcoming exclusion and promoting employment using mobile-phone technology
Nureddin Amro (Palestine) — Building an inclusive future for the visually handicapped through integrated education
Paul Abi Rached (Lebanon) — Singing to promote environmental conservation among Lebanon’s youth
Rabee’ Zureikat (Jordan) — Using “exchange development” to narrow the socio-economic divide

Raghda el-Ebrashi (Egypt) — Empowering communities to find their own locally-rooted solutions to sustainable development
Rami Mehdawi (Palestine) — Creating a virtual platform to promote social change
Ramzi Odah (Palestine) — Creating youth parliaments to foster a future generation of leadership
Rana Dajani (Jordan) — Creating a library in every neighborhood to foster a love of reading among Jordanian children
Saadia Zrira (Morocco) — Finding sustainable solutions to poverty and environmental degradation in rural Morocco through the cultivation of indigenous plants
Sameh el-Halawany (Egypt) — Using art to transform and preserve culturally-unique neighborhoods
Tamer Anis (Egypt) — Overcoming stereotypes and supporting the rights of the deaf and mute
Wafa Zerrouki (Morocco) — Helping women break the cycle of poverty through traditional handicraft
Younes Naoumi (Morocco) — Transforming the “youth bulge” from apathy to activism
Yousef al-Deek (Palestine) — Building social cohesion and reaffirming a cultural identity through cinema
Zeinab al-Momany (Jordan) — Promoting rural development for women through agricultural cooperatives