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The World’s 100 Most Powerful Arab Women

Welcome to CEO Middle East’s fourth annual list of the world’s most powerful Arab women — an exclusive countdown of the movers and shakers who are influencing the Arab world

1.Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi

2.Haifa Al Mansour

3.Reem Al Hashimy

4.Tawakkul Karman

5.Lubna Olayan

6.Nayla Hayek

8.Zaha Hadid

9.Mona Al Munajjed

10.Samia Halaby

11.Hayat Sindi

12.Amina Al Rustamani

14.Leila El Solh

17.Maha Laziri

18.Hamdiyah Al Jaff

19.Manahel Thabet

20. Fatima Al Jaber

21.Shaikha Al Bahar

24.Hanan Al Kuwari

25.Raja Easa Saleh Al Gurg

26.Nawal Al Saadawi

27.Maha Al Ghunaim

29.Yousra

30.Randa Ayoubi

32.Manal Al Sharif

33.Nahed Taher

35.Amal Al Qubaisi

36.Hiam Abbass

37.Hanan Solayman

38.Noura Al Kaabi

39.Ayah Bdeir

40.Hala Gorani

42.Fatema Mernissi

44.Samia Al Amoudi

45.Grace Najjar

46.Suad Al Humaidi

47.Nermin Saad

48.Salma Hareb

49.Nadine Labaki

50.Faten Al Naqeeb

51.Nashwa Al Ruwaini

53.Abeer Abu Ghaith

54.Muna Harib

55.Thoraya Ahmed Obaid

57.Mona Al Marri

58.Fairouz

61.Muna Abu Sulayman

62.Joumana Haddad

63.Reine Abbas

64.Nancy Ajram

65.Joelle Mardinian

67.Sara Akbar

68.Mona Eltahawy

69.Ingie Chalhoub

70.Nisreen Shocair

71.Buthaina Al Ansari

72.Zainab Salbi

73.Ismahane Elouafi

74.Hind Seddiqi

76.Hind Hobeika

77.Annemarie Jacir

80.Nayla Al Khaja

81.Amira Yahyaoui

82.Sarah Shuhail

83.Mona Bawarshi

84.Ahlam

86.Mona Almoayyed

87.Christine Sfeir

88.Lama Sulaiman

90.Dalia Mogahed

91.Zeina Tabari

92.Shareefa Fadhel

93.Elissa

94 Anissa Hassouna

95.Mona Ataya

96.Assala Nasri

98.Najwa Karam

100.Soraya Salti

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