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Read more: The female publisher fighting for free expressionMuna Al Jabri, a female publisher is encouraging a new generation of authors to harness the power of the written word
Read more: Social media free of censorship in the Middle East and abroadUCONVO is a new social media platform that plans to prioritize freedom of speech and respect diversity of opinion in a bid to democratize…
Read more: The Afghan mothers fighting for their daughters’ educationMothers who lived through the first Taliban regime have faced these restrictions before, and now some are refusing to back down
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Read more: Unraveling Epic Space Mysteries in ArabicBuilding on her popular Instagram page, Rocket engineer Diana Alsindy is writing a children’s book in Arabic to make space and science accessible to…
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