Faiza Al Kharafi is a well-known Kuwaiti chemist who was appointed as president of Kuwait University. She helped reconstruct the university after the first Gulf War (ended in 1991). Al...
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September 15, 2022
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September 10, 2022
Halimah Yacob-politician, lawyer & 8th President of Singapore
Halimah Yacob is currently serving as the eighth president of Singapore since 2017. She is the first female president of the country. She is also the second Muslim to rule...
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September 8, 2022
Nashwa Eassa-Nano-particle physicist
Nashwa Eassa is a nano-particle physicist from Sudan. In 2015 Eassa won “Elsevier Foundation Award for Women in Science in the Developing World”. She is involved in the development of...
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August 20, 2022
Megawati Sukarnoputri-First female president of Indonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri served as Indonesia’s first and only female president from 2001 to 2004. She is the present leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). It is one...
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August 6, 2022
Roza Otunbayeva-President of Kyrgyzstan
Roza Otunbayeva served as the president of Kyrgyzstan in 2010. She graduated from the Philosophy faculty of Moscow State University. In 1981 she worked as regional undersecretary of the Communist...