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Seera

By: The National
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  • Inspiring Arab women. ‘Seera’ is Arabic for ‘biography’ or 'her story' and will cover real and raw topics discussed with incredible women from the Middle East. These women are challenging stereotypes, disrupting the status quo and breaking the glass ceiling. We ask, what is her story?
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Episodes
  • Dr Rana Dajani on the science of her success

    Dr Rana Dajani on the science of her success
    Apr 5 2020
    Dr Rana Dajani is considered one of the most influential women in the Arab world. She is a molecular biologist who received a Fulbright scholarship to do a PhD in the USA. She has lectured at Yale, the University of Cambridge and has a fellowship at Harvard. As a social entrepreneur she started the We Love Reading programme in Jordan that now operates in over 55 countries across the world. She speaks to host Amina Taher about how she was unable to study at Cambridge when offered a place and how a marriage and four kids later she was finally able to pursue her dream.
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    29 mins
  • Lana Nusseibeh making history for the UAE

    Lana Nusseibeh making history for the UAE
    Mar 29 2020
    HE ambassador Lana Nusseibeh is the UAE permanent representative to the UN. She talks to host Amina Taher how she convinced her school to let her try out on an all boys football team, how her father UAE Minister of State Zaki Nusseibeh fostered her love of history and how the UAE is her favourite story. 
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    28 mins
  • Rima Assi on breaking the glass ceiling in the corporate world

    Rima Assi on breaking the glass ceiling in the corporate world
    Mar 22 2020
    Rima Assi was one of the first two women senior partners in the Middle East at McKinsey and Co, one of the world’s most prestigious consulting firms. She tells host Amina Taher about her work-life balance as a single mother, the time she got mistaken for the receptionist and her love of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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    30 mins
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