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Advancing Women’s Rights in the MENA region: the Restless Fight of Sana Afouaiz

August 26, 2020

Sana Afouaiz is an award-winning women advocate and public speaker on global feminism and women issues in the MENA region. In 2016, she established Womenpreneur, a community of 10,000 women across 20 countries. For the past years, she has advised the United Nations and the European Commission on gender issues, and on July the 17, 2020 she spoke as a role model at UNIDO’s International Online Conference “Women in Industry and Innovation”, a call to action focused on women’s empowerment and resilience. You have a unique and impressive résumé so far. How did it all start? I was born and grew up in Morocco and the cultural environment I lived in made gender discrimination visible and accepted. This inspired me to revolt and fight, I wanted to do something. I’ve always known that. I also read a lot of feminist authors at a very young age, they inspired me to understand that environments are socially-constructed realities that we can always change for a better humanity. What feminist authors inspired you the most? Fatima Mernissi, for instance. She is a great feminist and gender thinker from Morocco. And when did you…


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