The 2020 Skoll World Forum for 2020 went virtual due to health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s theme is Collective Strength.

We Love Reading along with Catalyst2030 hosted an event “Changing mindsets to Create Changemakers” on April 1, 2020 as part of the 2020 Skoll World Forum.  197 people attended and 232 registered.  The talk discussed the challenges that social entrepreneurs face in creating system change. In order to create sustainable change we need to start from the grassroots. The people themselves have to...

Dr. Rana Dajani visited one of the school in the underprivileged neighborhoods of Cartagena Columbia on Feb 14. This was part of the Eisenhower Fellows Global conference on future of education. Along with other Eisenhower Fellows, Dr. Rana spoke with the students and teachers, visited the school library and donated children’s books to the school.

Dr. Rana is exploring starting We Love Reading in the school in Cartagena and neighboring communities.

Dr. Rana met with the First lady of Columbia and shared with the We Love Reading Program and the potential impact it has...

The Inaugural Saïd Rhodes Forum on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon & Palestine (SJLP) celebrates the historic partnership between the Saïd Foundation and the Rhodes Trust. Through an intergenerational and interdisciplinary approach, the conference will be discussing three indispensable themes: economic development, health, culture and education.

This conference comes at a time of a dialectic struggle in the region. We aim to bring together the brightest of minds, in a unique dialogue, to discuss and navigate the biggest questions facing the region. The conferece was hel os Feb 22-...

Women should be given the opportunity to design and define their success in society and should not be compared to men, an accomplished scientist and academician told the audience at the Global Women’s Forum Dubai 2020 on Monday.

Speaking in a ‘Game-Changer’ session, organised as part of the Forum to showcase inspiring personal stories from women who have made great strides across various industries, Dr. Rana Dajani, one of the most influential female scientists in the Islamic World, said, “Ideas of success are very male designed and are spreading around the world without...