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MAY
2023
Expo Centre, Sharjah
Achievers
Indo Arab Women's
Excellence Awards
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Beena Kannan
Fashion Designer, Business Woman
The magical touch behind the designs of Seemati sarees, the most talked- about fashion designer from South India Mrs Beena Kannan is a woman with grit and determination.
With over 4 decades in the industry, she has been contributing towards preserving and promoting Indian weaves to the world. Her brand ‘Seematti’ & every outfit in the store have a story behind it, leaving the visitors with a unique perspective towards fashion & its evolution.
Beena Kannan well known for the gritty way in which she turned around the family business, is weaving a different story – through silks continue to be the predominant theme. She certainly took seemati to new heights and in 2007, the retail chain even entered the Limca Book of Records for the longest — half a km long silk sari created by her.
Beena Kannan truly believes that there is no point ‘chasing success. It will come to you if you are passionate about what you do.’This is the mantra that has helped her retain her cool through the most stressful periods of her life.
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Jumana Khan
Social Media Influencer
Social media presence and digital celebrity Jumana Khan business with a following of 9 million on TikTok and around 4.1 million on owns it like nobody’s Instagram. She is the first Malayali to appear on the illuminated facade of the Burj Khalifa.
Popularly known for her lip sync videos on TikTok, Jumana is crowned as ‘Muser’ on TikTok.
The TikTok star likes to explore more things and that is why she keeps posting content related to fashion, and travel vlogs. She has worked with United White Flag for Ramji Gulati’s song Nazar Na Lag Jaye. The video has crossed over 55 million views and 2.4 likes on YouTube. She is also going to collaborate with Bhavin Bhanushali for the song Taake Naina. Her dream is to become a Bollywood actor and travel the whole world someday.
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Lina Al-Maeena
Saudi Arabia’s Shoura Council member, business woman and philanthropist
Saudi Arabian women hitted a new milestone in the field of sports, through a very unique initiative launched by Saudi Arabia's Shoura Council member Lina Al-Maeena, and Belgium's business woman and philanthropist ambassador to the Kingdom, Dominique Mineur
This avid sports lover, has been trying to encourage Saudi women’s involvement in the sports sector since her return to the Kingdom in 2000. She founded Jeddah United, Saudi Arabia’s first private female basketball club, in 2003 and has since established a private company to run sports events and expand the sports scene in Saudi Arabia. In 2004, she was selected to address the French Senate on International Women’s Day.
Almaeena is a member of the Young Saudi Business Committee and Sports Investment Committee in the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Kingdom Young Business Women Council. She was 71st on a list of the 200 Most Powerful Women in the Middle East by Forbes Magazine in 2014. She also won the entrepreneurship award at the Women Leaders Forum in 2010 and is one of the few Saudi women to have climbed Mount Everest.
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Haleema Humaid Al Owais
CEO - Sultan bin Ali Al Owais Real Estate
A visionary, risk-taker and responsible leader, Haleema Humaid Al Owais is the CEO of Sultan bin Ali Al Owais Real Estate. Al Owais is currently at the helm of three large companies that cover the entire scale of needs of her core business in construction, real estate development and real estate management.
UAE’s most prominent Emirati entrepreneurs, Ms.Haleema, opens the door to her eclectic, art-filled home where inanimate objects come to life.The 37-year- old CEO of Sultan bin Ali Al Owais Real Estate has, in the past, managed many daunting tasks, both in business and in her personal life.
From starting her own community-focused café in Dubai, to climbing some of the highest mountain peaks, the mother of two has dealt with her fair share of challenges.
In early 2007, after the sudden passing of her father, Haleema stepped in to help manage the family business. She went on to manage a successful business, while also opening and running the Community Café, her first food venture, with limited experience.
If Haleema could give homeowners just one piece of advice: ―Your home is your biggest investment. The more you invest in making your house into a home, the more your life will be enriched.
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Nujoom Al-Ghanem
Film Director
Nujoom al-Ghanem is one of the strongest modern Emirati poets who rose in the early 1980s in the Gulf region. Her language is such that it permeates the soul with a rich and flavoured life experience that goes beyond the five senses. Her ability to mix the spiritual and the physical, the real and the unreal, the mythical with the present, is what makes her poems resonate in the mind more than any other writer. Al-Ghanem offers a spiritual and mystical surrounding without ascending or descending into deep and obscure regions of the psyche. Nujoom combines the possible with the limitless and all-embracing possibilities of love, regeneration and an infinite room for acceptance and change. Her words are laden with a past full of sorrows, but this is not a hindrance to the boundless love contained in the mystic heart of a loving poet. She mixes the culture of the East with that of the West in unique and unparalleled way of accepting the other as part of one's own making.
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Dr. Vidya Vinod
Ceo & Co-Founder - Study World Education Holding
Being the founder of subsidiary education organizations such as The Global College Malta, Study World Educational Services FZ LLC her education philosophy lies in designing the education processes to realise the potential of every student. Through "Hope for tomorrow" initiative she raised money and supported a few underprivileged children with education and medical facilities. Since 2002, the time she has been in business in UAE,and currently she is the vice-chairperson of Flowers Channel. One of the youngest women CEO in the region,Dr. Vidhya aspires to use her innovation and management skills to establish reputed and commercially viable educational institutions in different parts of the world.
The Asia HRD Awards Committee awarded Dr Vidhya Vinod the Contribution to Human Resources Community Award 2014 for championing educational initiatives in the developing world..
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Nadia Abdul Aziz
President - NAFL, UAE
Nadia Abdul Aziz is the first Emirati Lady to head a UAE association in freight and logistics and also the first Emirati woman to hold a global position as VP of the FIATA, the largest non profit, non government freight forwarding federation based in Zurich and working in 150 countries.
Nadia is a business, marketing and logistics professional with an MBA degree from the American University -Dubai. She heads various non profit organizations and everything she does will incorporate giving back to the community in the UAE or beyond the UAE.
A supporter for professional women, Nadia continues to supports Indian special needs students by fund raising and sponsorships. In addition to this she has represented the UAE in India and in many global conferences.
She has won the Dubai Quality Excellence award for representative Entities under her leadership of NAFL last year, as part of many appreciation awards and accolades.
Nadia continues to build greater relations with India and always believes whats goes around comes around, doing good will always have a positive impact in return and that's what really keeps her going.
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Rasha Al Danhani
In the summer of 2009, when she was looking to start an F&B concept, Rasha Al Danhani hit upon the idea of starting a café called PappaRoti.
It was right after a global crisis had hit the economy and things were looking bleak but being one who liked challenges, Rasha Al Danhani set up Papparoti as a kiosk in Dubai Mall. Starting off with a staff of five people, Ms Al Danhani took her turn as a barista in the bakery. Since then, the meteoric rise of her PappaRoti franchise is nothing short of groundbreaking.
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Shafeena Yusuff Ali
Daughter to one illustrious entrepreneur and wife to another, it was a natural path for Shafeena Yusuff Ali to become an entrepreneur. But being the strong-willed and independent person that she is, she chose to sculpt her own path in the entrepreneurial world.
Through her passion for travel and food, Shafeena successfully brought several internationally renowned F&B concepts to both India and UAE in addition to developing two homegrown brands.
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Dr Reena Anil Kumar
An exceptional entrepreneur, Dr Reena Anil Kumar sculpted a new path in the field of environmental friendly-ventures, making herself a role model for upcoming entrepreneurs.
She presented the idea of composite natural mosquito eradication methods and successfully persuaded regional authorities to change their approaches to more environmentally friendly methods.
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Liza Mayan
Liza Mayan heads Classic Sports Goods Private Ltd, the only company in South India that manufactures tennis balls. One of the only female presences in the sector of sports accessories manufacturing, Liza grew up in Dubai and completed her BTech from TKM College of Engineering. Her entrepreneurial life began after her marriage in 1994 to Mayan Muhammed who was at the helm of Western India Plywoods, a prominent business firm in Malabar.
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Rasha Al Danhani
In the summer of 2009, when she was looking to start an F&B concept, Rasha Al Danhani hit upon the idea of starting a café called PappaRoti.
It was right after a global crisis had hit the economy and things were looking bleak but being one who liked challenges, Rasha Al Danhani set up Papparoti as a kiosk in Dubai Mall. Starting off with a staff of five people, Ms Al Danhani took her turn as a barista in the bakery. Since then, the meteoric rise of her PappaRoti franchise is nothing short of groundbreaking.
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Shafeena Yusuff Ali
Daughter to one illustrious entrepreneur and wife to another, it was a natural path for Shafeena Yusuff Ali to become an entrepreneur. But being the strong-willed and independent person that she is, she chose to sculpt her own path in the entrepreneurial world.
Through her passion for travel and food, Shafeena successfully brought several internationally renowned F&B concepts to both India and UAE in addition to developing two homegrown brands.
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Dr Reena Anil Kumar
An exceptional entrepreneur, Dr Reena Anil Kumar sculpted a new path in the field of environmental friendly-ventures, making herself a role model for upcoming entrepreneurs.
She presented the idea of composite natural mosquito eradication methods and successfully persuaded regional authorities to change their approaches to more environmentally friendly methods.
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Liza Mayan
Liza Mayan heads Classic Sports Goods Private Ltd, the only company in South India that manufactures tennis balls. One of the only female presences in the sector of sports accessories manufacturing, Liza grew up in Dubai and completed her BTech from TKM College of Engineering. Her entrepreneurial life began after her marriage in 1994 to Mayan Muhammed who was at the helm of Western India Plywoods, a prominent business firm in Malabar.