Syrian girls learn entrepreneurs aren't all vermin
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It could be a scene from a reality TV show as a young Syrian entrepreneur pitches her team's plan for a wheelchair factory to a potential investor.
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An "army" of female activists is being launched by the government to inspire and help women start companies.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - Dr. Raad Sameer's three children were very excited -- Monday was to be their first day of school in America. A month after landing in the U.S. heartland, the Iraqi refugees were ready to pursue their dream.
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A small but growing movement seeks to help Muslim American women who are affected by domestic violence.
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Afghan women find economic freedom, dietary benefits in vegetable crops.
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Syriana may have been hard to follow, but it was hard to   follow in its own way.
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LYON, France -- When Najat Vallaud Belkacem, a Moroccan Muslim immigrant, applied to France's most prestigious political science university, she recalled, her high school teachers told her she'd never be accepted: She wasn't rich, she wasn't from Paris -- she wasn't even from France.
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Seeing Both Sides Blog Boston-based VC and serial entrepreneur Jeff Bussgang blogs that entrepreneurs can learn a lot from Sacha Baron Cohen. Like Cohen/Borat, entrepreneurs need to take risks, without fear for personal repercussions. They must be bold and audacious and yet remain credible enough to not lose anyone along the way. And they must remain in character, persuading partners, ...
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NEW YORK -- The goals were clear when Sheneen Jackson enrolled her son in one of the first public schools in the nation to focus on Arabic language and culture. First, her 11-year-old would master Arabic. Later, doors would open for him in government and diplomacy -- maybe a job at the United...
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KABUL -- While trolling the Internet last October, Afghan journalism student Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh came across some articles that questioned the limits of women's rights under Islam. According to Afghan prosecutors, he downloaded the articles and circulated them on campus.
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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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KAKUMA, Kenya -- They had learned how to buy bus tokens and clip coupons. Gotten hands-on training for lighting a gas stove and flushing a toilet. Taken a pop quiz on women's rights.
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Why running water may mean a better education for some Afghan children.
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BAGHDAD -- The textbooks at their new school might call their predicament "forced internal displacement," but the Iraqi girls living this phenomenon describe it in different terms.
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DAVANGERE, India -- Kafeel Ahmed didn't seem the least bit angry as a young engineering student.
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Ever-inventive entrepreneurs found unusual ways to profit from the flood of Gazan Palestinians across the Egyptian border, which burst open for two days after a long blockade.
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Female undergraduates work harder and are more open-minded than males, leading to better results, say scientists.