Thuraya Al-Arrayed, the first Saudi woman Ph.D. to live and work in the Eastern Province, and Huda Al-Ghosen, who in 2007 became a director of the Aramco’s shipping subsidiary, Vela International Marine, Ltd. (Al-Ghoson, 2015.) In 2015, Ms. Huda Al-Ghosn became Saudi Aramco’s Executive Director of Employee Relations and Training, supervising more than 65,000 employees. She is the first woman to hold this position in the company’s history.

History has validated the fact that Muslim women can be on the forefront of discovery in both science and medicine.