5 Young Arab Entrepreneurs To Know

Here are 6 names to keep a look out for as they break barriers with their innovations and businesses. Spanning across various industries, these are the entrepreneurs from the Arab region you need to know for this year.

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Lara Hussein

Dubai-based Lara Hussein is the co-founder and CEO The Waste Lab, a women-led start-up that is building solutions to benefit the agricultural community in the UAE. The Lebanese entrepreneur uses her analytical thinking and flair in storytelling to advocate for environmentalism. The Waste Lab’s clientele include big names such as Hilton Group, Majid Al-Futtaim VOX Cinemas, and many more.

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Mohammed Abdeldayem

Mohammed Abdeldayem is the Egyptian CEO and founder of Dresscode, an e-commerce business that is based in Egypt and is now operating in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His main goal with this company is to provide a more sustainable approach to fashion, and now is business has more than 15 designers that help create the products in a sustainable way while still keeping up with trends.

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Amani Nouri

Amani Nouri is a Saudi Arabian nutritionist whose aim is to accommodate and create options for the up-and-coming vegan market in KSA. She has founded Tuma Taiba which is a company that offers plant-based products that vary from cheese spreads and pastries.

Amani Nouri is a huge advocate of the vegan lifestyle after she herself noticed so many positive improvements with her skin and health in general after changing her diet to 80% plant-based. She plans to triple her company’s production for the next year.

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Mohammed Alsolami

Saudi Arabian computer scientist, Mohammed Alsolami, founded a start-up called Robotics, has obtained three master degrees from various American universities, created a hand-worn device that allows people to be guided in over-congested spaces, and developed a sensor for farmers in order to help them know when their crops need to be taken care of. Need we say more about why you need to know this mastermind?

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Wafa Al-Obaidat

Bahraini Wafa Al-Obaidat, often dubbed as a serial entrepreneur, is the founder of Playbook. Operating in both English and Arabic, Obaidat’s brainchild is an “edu-tainment platforms that redefines career progression for women.” Its main aim is to create a space where lie-minded women can comes together and share their experiences to help other women grow.