Rawan Maki

Rawan Maki is a Bahraini, Dubai-based strategy consultant. She has a background in environmental engineering and economics, with degrees from Yale University and Imperial College. Her interests are the Arab region's social, environmental, and socio-economic reform, as well as gender equity and Arab female identity.

Tired of being 'treasured'

Women in the Gulf are still waiting for paternalistic social norms to catch up with the economic and political freedoms they have gained.

By Rawan Maki

/ 17 Oct 2014