1.Queen Rania (2ndR), a commoner from a Palestinian family, married Jordan’s King Abdullah in 1993. She is known for her distinguishable taste in fashion, and has established herself as a campaigner for universal education.
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2.Qatar’s Sheikha Mozah has been engaged in education and social reforms, along with several development projects. The first lady chairs the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, a private non-profit initiative to promote the small gas-rich country.
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3.Egyptian author and activist Nawal El Saadawi has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society.
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4.Tunisian actress Hend Sabry was appointed as Ambassador against Hunger by ‘The United Nations World Food Program’. She supports WFP in its fight against hunger in developing countries around the world especially in the Middle East region.
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5.Former CNN senior editor of Middle East affairs, Octavia Nasr is considered one of the pioneers of bridging the gap between traditional and social media. She played a pivotal role building and running the social media international news gathering strategy at CNN, until she was fired in July 2010, over a public statement of respect on Twitter for Lebanese cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, who she considered ‘one of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot’.
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6.Lebanese diva Fairuz is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time. Fairuz is commonly known as ‘Ambassador to the Stars’ and ‘Neighbour to the Moon’.
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7.Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid is a winner of many international competitions, theoretically influential and groundbreaking. In 2008, she was ranked 69th on the Forbes list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women and was named by Time magazine as influential thinker in the 2010 TIME 100 issue.
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8.Jordan’s Princess Haya bint al-Hussein is the wife of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. She has engaged in a range of humanitarian activities and founded Tikyet Um Ali, the first Arab NGO dedicated to overcoming local hunger, in her native Jordan, and now chairs Dubai's International Humanitarian City.
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9.Majida al-Roumi is a Lebanese singer and a soprano, who started her musical career in the early 1970s when she participated in the talent show, Studio El Fan on Tele Liban and won the gold medal for best female singer. Since her appearance on television at the age of 16, she has become one of the most successful and respected singers of the Arab world as well as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.
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10.Lubna al-Olayan is the CEO of the Riyadh-based Olayan Financing Company and is one of Saudi Arabia’s most prolific businesswomen. A defining moment for Olayan was speaking at the Jeddah Economic Forum in 2004 and becoming the first woman to speak at a mixed conference in Saudi Arabia.
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