DTCM unites with Dubai Women’s Museum
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Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has inked an MoU with the Women’s Museum in Dubai. The partnership aims to promote important work done by the museum in highlighting role of Emirati women in Dubai’s society.
Dr Ahmad Belhoul, CEO of strategy and tourism sector development for DTCM said: “From cabinet ministers in the UAE government to entrepreneurs and those holding senior roles in businesses, women in the UAE have been critical to the country’s development. We’re pleased to be supporting the Women’s Museum to celebrate the role of females in Emirati society and Dubai as a whole.”
The Women’s Museum offers space to explore the lives of women in the UAE and features key achievements made by Emirati women over the years. The museum also acts as a national archive and documentation centre recording all aspects of their lives. These fascinating records depict how the role of women, their status and philosophy have evolved throughout the UAE’s history and have been shaped by the rapidly changing society in the city.
Prominent Emirati women include Kholoud Ahmed Al Dhaheri, the first female Judge at Dubai’s Court of First Instance; Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, foreign trade minister and first woman to hold a cabinet position in the UAE; Alia Saeed Al Shamsi, curator and head of photography at Emirat Al Youm Newspaper; Maryam Matar, founder and board chairman at the UAE Genetic Diseases Association; Hind Seddiqi, a mother and savvy business woman at the helm of Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons; Nayla Al Khaja, UAE’s first an award-winning female filmmaker and Salma Hareb, who as CEO of Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority and parent company Economic Zones World, is the first woman in the Middle East to lead a free zone.
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