The late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan said: “The role of women is no less than that of men, and today’s students are the mothers of the future”. The UAE has remained steadfast in Sheikh Zayed’s intention to support and empower women in various fields. Education was a key factor in that plan, opening the doors of work and creating diverse environments for women to engage in. Sheikh Zayed’s wife, Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak,...
TikTok Mena enlisted former Lebanese professional basketball player Fadi Al-Khatib and Egyptian beauty blogger Lugina Salah to produce a series of Arabic tutorials aimed at helping parents keep their children safe on the app. The #SaferForYou videos walk parents through the Family Safety Mode feature, which allows parents to monitor, control and restrict their children’s direct messages and set limits on the types of content they see. And using a new feature revealed in June,...
Khor Fakkan has been my home since childhood: I grew up there and have so many memories of this charming city. Yet I remember in my first year at university in Abu Dhabi, when I told some new friends where I was from and some of them had never even heard of it. When I started describing it to them, they were so excited to visit. I feel that many people living in the UAE...
Statistics about the growing problem of childhood obesity may help us to understand the scope of the problem, but what can parents actually do about it? The rate of childhood obesity was increasing apace in the UAE even before the pandemic changed everything: from 12 percent of children in 2018 to 17.4 percent in 2020, according to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Health and Community Protection. Other studies have shown that about one-third of children...