Women
At only fourteen years old, Saudi podcaster and speaker Rateel Alshehri is a powerful role model for Gen Alphas all across the Middle East and beyond. She launched her hugely successful podcast, Rateel Alpha Talk, when she was only 12 years old. Her trademark curiosity and approachable presenting style quickly propelled the podcast and Rateel herself into the spotlight, and her burgeoning career has gone from strength to strength ever since.
At Pink Jinn, we love to celebrate women each and every day, but we’ve lined…
At Pink Jinn, we love to celebrate women each and every day, but we’ve lined…
It’s Women’s History Month, and here at Pink Jinn there’s nothing we love more than celebrating the achievements of incredible women. To mark the occasion, we’re going on a trip through history to highlight the stories of 6 awe-inspiring women from the Middle East and North Africa who we should all know more about. From warriors, freedom fighters and activists to pioneers in the fields of healthcare and even aviation, this is a pretty amazing collection.
Our Founder, Laura Cretney, shares the story of Pink Jinn, from a tiny British island to the deserts of Oman.
This week, we’re celebrating ten incredible Yemeni women making waves in the worlds of journalism, food, activism, photography, art, music and even paleoanthropology. From a filmmaker documenting the realities of living through the war in Yemen to an explorer uncovering the secrets of human evolution on Socotra, you need these fearless women on your feed!
In 2000, Amina Yabis got the idea to create a female-only cooperative in her hometown of Sefrou. The Cherry Buttons Cooperative – which creates beautiful crafts out of traditionally crafted djellaba buttons – has continued to pave the way for women in Sefrou, particularly for women otherwise pushed to the margins of society.
Have you ever noticed that most of the journalists covering the Middle East and North Africa are… well… not from the Middle East and North Africa? Lebanese journalist, editor, and author Zahra Hankir noticed this too, which ed her to edit Our Women On The Ground, a wonderful collection of nineteen essays written by women who cover their own homelands in the Middle East and North Africa.
Bedouin women’s poetry is a rich, if little-known tradition of verse that stretches from Pre-Islamic Arabia all the way to the present day. While known within the Gulf and preserved in local communities, it rarely receives large-scale attention, generally because the emotional lives of women are considered culturally sensitive.