Empowering women to solve refugee crisis focus of speech
Nezha Alaoui Was a Featured Speaker at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development’s 12th Annual Conference, ‘Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future’. President and Founder of Mayshad Foundation Discussed Empowering Women and Importance of Entrepreneurship to Help Solve Refugee Crisis at Invite-Only Event in Doha
Mayshad Foundation, a leading U.S.-based NGO focused on supporting underserved women and girls in Africa, Americas and other parts of the world, today announced its President and Founder Nezha Alaoui spoke at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development’s (CMED) 12th Annual Conference, ‘Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future.’ The invitation-only event took place in Doha on November 12-13, 2017.
At the conference, Alaoui spoke both days and reinforced her advocacy by contributing to topics impacting today’s world, including:
- The role of women in the development of the Middle East economy
- How can entrepreneurs solve the migration/refugee crisis
“Boundaries are everywhere and are very clearly defined in the Arab world,” stated Alaoui. “I come from Morocco, where women do have legal rights and yet many still limit themselves in their freedom to act because they fear the social repercussions in their lives. A woman’s freedom begins with her own will and decision to free herself. This conference provided a wonderful opportunity for me to discuss empowering women.”
Through her foundation, Alaoui is a global advocate for change. She is also the founder of the Mayshad Woman Club, a business-oriented networking club featuring workshops and panels, the editor-in-chief of Mayshad Woman Magazine and the Creative Director of her luxury handbag brand Maison Mayshad. Additionally, Alaoui is a social media influencer with over 750,000 followers (@Mayshadwoman).
The annual UCLA CMED conference, supported by the Foreign Ministry of the State of Qatar, has grown into an internationally recognized forum for government officials, active business and financial practitioners, and politicians and academics dealing with current economic, financial, political, and diplomatic issues. Experts brought their perspectives to pressing global policy issues, while simultaneously conducting private business and interchange.
The conference has previously been addressed by several distinguished keynote speakers and attendees, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, former Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa, former U.S. Mideast envoy Senator George Mitchell, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman.
About Mayshad Foundation: Founded in 2014 by Nezha Alaoui, the Mayshad Foundation is a U.S.-based NGO with operations in Morocco, and other African countries. The Mayshad Foundation’s programs are designed to support underserved women and girls in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world focusing on three primary areas: social entrepreneurship, education and climate change solutions. For more information, please click here.
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
Click here to send Ray Hanania email.
- Arab Americans host online rally for Democratic candidates Sunday Oct. 25, 2020 - October 13, 2020
- Member of Iran’s Parliament in Exile Ali Safavi to guest on “The Ray Hanania Radio Show” - October 13, 2020
- Arab News Newspaper launches Research and Studies Unit - October 13, 2020