Recent decades have seen greatly expanded opportunities for women throughout the Arab world, leveling the playing field as never before.
In Arab Women Rising, Knowledge@Wharton contributors Nafeesa Syeed and Rahilla Zafar share the entrepreneurial journeys of 35 women, from a flower farmer tending her fields in the Tunisian countryside to a Saudi royal advocating for expanded women's rights throughout the kingdom.
This Knowledge@Wharton collection tells the stories of:
- Pioneers who are establishing exciting technology companies in a region where mobile usage is on the upswing
- Small and midsize business owners who started enterprises specializing in everything from public relations to the arts
- Innovators who have rolled out new products, revamped fashions, and integrated new services into their industries
- Visionaries tapping the big-picture potential the region holds in such growing fields as entertainment and science
- Women effectively spearheading change in their communities by starting social enterprises
Inspiring and powerful, Arab Women Rising is a guide to understanding the modern business environment created and led by a new generation of women entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa.