This podcast relates the realities of Arab Women and their rich and diverse experiences. It aims to represent the multiplicity of women voices. It wishes to break cultural stereotypes about women of the Middle East, and educate and empower the younger generation of Middle Eastern women who were stripped of their historical reference and weren’t necessarily raised to believe in their own agency and power to create their destiny.
This season is a collaboration between Women of the Middle East (WME) podcast and Musawah. Musawah (‘equality’ in Arabic) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. Musawah launched in February 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work in International Advocacy and Knowledge & Capacity Building. In 2020, they launched the Campaign for Justice to bring advocates for family law reform together and build support at the national, regional, and global levels towards equality and justice for all women living in Muslim contexts.
Social Media Handles:
Website: www.musawah.org
Facebook: facebook.com/musawahmovement/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/musawah
Twitter: @musawah
Instagram: @musawahmovement
This season is a collaboration between Women of the Middle East (WME) podcast and Musawah. Musawah (‘equality’ in Arabic) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. Musawah launched in February 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work in International Advocacy and Knowledge & Capacity Building. In 2020, they launched the Campaign for Justice to bring advocates for family law reform together and build support at the national, regional, and global levels towards equality and justice for all women living in Muslim contexts.
Dr. Sa‘diyya Shaikh is an associate professor in the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Cape Town. Her research is situated at the intersection of Islamic Studies and Gender Studies.
Social Media Handles:
Website: www.musawah.org
Facebook: facebook.com/musawahmovement/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/musawah
Twitter: @musawah
Instagram: @musawahmovement
This season is a collaboration between Women of the Middle East (WME) podcast and Musawah. Musawah (‘equality’ in Arabic) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. Musawah launched in February 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work in International Advocacy and Knowledge & Capacity Building. In 2020, they launched the Campaign for Justice to bring advocates for family law reform together and build support at the national, regional, and global levels towards equality and justice for all women living in Muslim contexts.
Dr. Marwa Sharafeldin is a scholar-activist with a Ph.D. in law from the University of Oxford, is the senior technical advisor and MENA region expert in Musawah and a visiting fellow in Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World.
Social Media Handles:
Website: www.musawah.org
Facebook: facebook.com/musawahmovement/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/musawah
Twitter: @musawah
Instagram: @musawahmovement
This season is a collaboration between Women of the Middle East (WME) podcast and Musawah. Musawah (‘equality’ in Arabic) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. Musawah launched in February 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work in International Advocacy and Knowledge & Capacity Building. In 2020, they launched the Campaign for Justice to bring advocates for family law reform together and build support at the national, regional, and global levels towards equality and justice for all women living in Muslim contexts.
Dr. Nevin Reda is an associate professor of Muslim studies at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.
Social Media Handles:
Website: www.musawah.org
Facebook: facebook.com/musawahmovement/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/musawah
Twitter: @musawah
Instagram: @musawahmovement
This season is a collaboration between Women of the Middle East (WME) podcast and Musawah. Musawah (‘equality’ in Arabic) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. Musawah launched in February 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work in International Advocacy and Knowledge & Capacity Building. In 2020, they launched the Campaign for Justice to bring advocates for family law reform together and build support at the national, regional, and global levels towards equality and justice for all women living in Muslim contexts.
Dr. Sara Ababneh is a lecturer in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield and was previously an associate professor at the Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan.
Dr. Shadaab Rahemtulla is a lecturer in Islam and Christian–Muslim relations at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and was previously an assistant professor at the University of Jordan.
Social Media Handles:
Website: www.musawah.org
Facebook: facebook.com/musawahmovement/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shadaab-rahemtulla-a45571127/ | linkedin.com/in/sara-ababneh-phd-04493439/ | linkedin.com/company/musawah
Twitter: @musawah
Instagram: @musawahmovement
This season is a collaboration between Women of the Middle East (WME) podcast and Musawah. Musawah (‘equality’ in Arabic) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. Musawah launched in February 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work in International Advocacy and Knowledge & Capacity Building. In 2020, they launched the Campaign for Justice to bring advocates for family law reform together and build support at the national, regional, and global levels towards equality and justice for all women living in Muslim contexts.
Dr. Omaima Abou-Bakr is a professor of English and comparative literature at Cairo University and a founding member of the Women and Memory Forum.
Dr. Nur Rofiah is a lecturer of methodology of Qur’anic interpretation at the Islamic State University Syarif Hidayatullah and the Institute for Qur’anic Studies (PTIQ) in Jakarta, and a women’s rights activist who promotes gender justice within Islam as a writer, facilitator, and resource person.
Social Media Handles:
Website: www.musawah.org
Facebook: facebook.com/musawahmovement/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nur-rofiah-2392a411/ | linkedin.com/company/musawah
Twitter: @musawah
Instagram: @musawahmovement
This season is a collaboration between Women of the Middle East (WME) podcast and Musawah. Musawah (‘equality’ in Arabic) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. Musawah launched in February 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work in International Advocacy and Knowledge & Capacity Building. In 2020, they launched the Campaign for Justice to bring advocates for family law reform together and build support at the national, regional, and global levels towards equality and justice for all women living in Muslim contexts.Dr. Mulki Al-Sharmani is an associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Helsinki and a member of Musawah’s Knowledge Building Working Group and one of the co-editors of their newest book “Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage: Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Laws”
Social Media Handles:
Website: www.musawah.org
Facebook: facebook.com/musawahmovement/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mulki-al-sharmani-739b4aa3/ | linkedin.com/company/musawah
Twitter: @musawah
Instagram: @musawahmovement
Thank you for listening to Women of the Middle East, Season 4. This episode is a short recap looking back at our guests, their feminist perspective and their stories. I hope you will join us for Season 5, coming soon!
Our Social Media Handles:
Website: https://linktr.ee/wme_podcast |https://amalalmalki.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wmepodcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-amal-mohammed-al-malki-82181a16/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/wmepodcast/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wme_podcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wme_podcast/ | https://www.instagram.com/dr_amal_al_malki/
Nisreen Haj Ahmad is the director & co-founder of Ahel, a social enterprise that offers community organizing and leadership training and coaching. It partners with constituency groups and organizations to build their power and help them run grassroots campaigns. She is coaching grassroots campaigns and leaders in Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria.
Social Media Handles:
Website: https://ahel.org/
Facebook: facebook.com/Ahel.org
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nisreen-haj-ahmad-38716011/ | https://linkedin.com/company/ahel-org
Twitter: @Nisreenhaj | @Ahel_org
Instagram: @ahel.organization
About the guest:
Naza Alakija is an Iranian humanitarian and an adviser to a number of leading global institutions. She is the Founder & CEO of Sage Foundation, an NGO which works across the pillars of education, the support of women & girls, and climate action. Naza is an advocate for girls’ access to education and is dedicated to funding innovative grassroots movements that deliver holistic solutions to the climate crisis and beyond.
Social Media Handles:
Website: https://www.nazaalakija.com/ | https://sagefdn.org/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/naza-alakija-607b80197/
Twitter: @NazaAlakija
Instagram:@nazaalakija | @sage.foundation
About the guest:
Aziza Nait Sibaha was born in Morocco, where she began her career as a journalist in 1997. She is both a Senior TV Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at the Paris-based France 24 news channel, Sciences-Po, and Harvard Alumna. She is also a Public Speaking trainer and a gender diversity advocate. as well as the founder of Taja Sport; a media platform created in March 2021 that is dedicated to women's sports in the MENA region.
Social Media Handles:
Facebook: facebook.com/azizanaitsibahaofficial/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aziza-nait-sibaha
Twitter: @AzizaNaitSibaha
Instagram:@naitsibahaaziza
About the guest:
Diana Moukalled is a Lebanese journalist, feminist, and documentary producer/director with almost 30 years of experience in the media industry and writing and producing stories in the Middle East. As one of the leading female war correspondents in the Arab world, her war coverages included Lebanon, Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), and Yemen (2015). Diana is also a co-founder and Managing Editor of Daraj. She is considered a prominent voice for the defense of human and women’s rights, with her extensive experience in both traditional and digital media, and is also a columnist, and a media and gender trainer.
Social Media Handles:
Twitter: @dianamoukalled
Instagram:@diana_moukalled
About the guest:
Her Highness Sheikha Intisar Al Sabah is a Kuwaiti philanthropist, author, columnist, social entrepreneur, film producer, founder & CEO, and princess of the House of Al-Sabah, the ruling family of Kuwait. She is committed to philanthropic excellence with respect to her vision of fostering Peace in the Arab world and beyond.
Social Media Handles:
Twitter: @intisaralsabah
Instagram:@intisaralsabah
@intisarfoundation
@theglobaldiwan
@al_nowair
LinkedIn: HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah
Website: Intisarfoundation.org
About the guest:
Honey is co-founder of women’s football in Palestine, the first captain of the Palestinian national football team, the first woman in the Middle East to obtain a FIFA Master’s and to be employed by FIFA (Fédération International de Football Association). Honey is a role model to women and girls throughout the Arab world and an inspiration to all who dream to live life abundantly.
Social media handles:
Instagram: @honeythaljieh
LinkedIn: Honey ThaljiehThe Generation Amazing Foundation (GA) is a human and social legacy focused organisation that launched in 2010 during Qatar’s successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup™. GA operates its sport for development programmes in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Qatar's National Vision 2030, to promote sustainability, inclusion, and gender equality. GA’s unique methodology utilises the power of football to impart crucial life skills including communication, leadership, teamwork and compassion to youth and communities in need across the globe. Since its launch, GA , in collaboration with key partners, has reached and positively impacted over 1 million lives in 41 countries and counting.
For more information, visit www.generationamazing.qa or follow us @GA4good on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Our Guest Info:
HH AlSayyida Basma Al Said, born to a mother from the UK and an Omani father, is a well-established Mental Health Clinical Counselor & hypnotherapist, and PTSD trainer with over 21 years of experience seeing and treating patients with a wide array of disorders. She is the founder of “Whispers of Serenity”;Oman’s first-of-its-kind mental health clinic & holistic well-being center since 2011.
Guest's Social media handles:
Instagram: basmaalsaidofficial
Linkedin: AlSayyida Basma Al Said
Born to a Welsh mother and an Egyptian father, Dr. Shereen is a British, Egyptian, and Canadian intimate-rights advocate, author, and activist working on issues related to health and social welfare in the Arab region -- including intimate attitudes toward sexual (and political) freedoms
Social media handles are:
Twitter and Insta: @shereenelfeki
TikTok: ShereenElFeki
Facebook: Shereen El Feki
LinkedIn: Shereen El Feki
Kuwaiti- Palestinian author of her latest book “Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness”, academic scholar, and Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait.
Guest Socials:
@DrShahdals
The first episode of:
Dr. Amal’s conversation with Feature MEP Hannah Neumann.
More about our guest:
Hannah Neumann is the peace and human rights spokesperson of "The Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA)", Vice-Chair of the Human Rights Committee (DROI), member of the Committee on Security and Defence Policy (SEDE) and substitute in the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) as well as head of the delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula. At the German Green party, she is also a member of the motions committee. Hannah Neumann studied media sciences and peace and conflict studies, which is also the subject she chose for her Ph.D. Her academic career brought her to Ilmenau, Berlin, Manila, and Monrovia. Before joining the European Parliament, she was a self-employed expert and consultant for peace projects, i.a. in projects for the United Nations, the Society for International Cooperation, the European Commission, the DGAP, GPPi, and aid organizations. She advised ministries and non-governmental organizations on campaigns on anti-discrimination, the promotion of democracy, climate protection on the local level, and human rights. From 2013 until 2016, she worked as a policy advisor in the German Bundestag.
Our guest’s website:
https://hannahneumann.eu/en/#UeberMich
EU Website: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/e...
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_...
Today’s episode is featuring Ola Shahba!
Get to know more about our guest:
A social activist who contributed in founding more than one political group, including a left-wing party that emerged after the January revolution. She was also an organizing member of other formations and youth movements.
A Trainer from the Informal Education Authority, forms and objects of origin from the organization.
University of London, College of Oriental and African Studies, and on the Fellowship of the University of British Columbia School of International Studies.
She worked with the Council of Europe, several international, local and community agencies, including various agencies of the United Nations, Europe and the Arab world.
And was part of many projects produced by the Participation.
Our guest’s socials:
Instagram: @OlaShahba
Twitter: @OlaShahba
https://twitter.com/OlaShahba
Facebook: @OlaShahba
https://www.facebook.com/olashahbam
Aisha is one of Qatar’s most popular singers and songwriters, with her talent, drive, and passion have led to headlining performances around the world, including at the United Nations General Assembly in New York and at the grand opening of Doha Festival City.
Check out our guest’s socials:
Instagram: @aishaofcl
Twitter: @aishaofcl
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aishaofcl
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGsA...
Banan Abu Zain Eddin is a feminist activist, co-founder, and executive director of Takatoat feminist collective and advocacy and gender trainer. She is a holder of a Diploma degree in Management of Non-Profit institutions and is currently pursuing a second Bachelor in Law. Banan have more than eight years of experience working in the civil society and humanitarian field. She is the co-founder of the “Feminist Sessions” initiative aiming to spread feminist and women’s rights knowledge and contribute to strengthening the young feminist movement in Jordan. Banan worked as a Youth civic engagement Coordinator at Mercy Corps- Jordan and a Field Coordinator with Save the Children international- Jordan. As part of her activism on women’s rights, Banan is a member of the Youth Gender Innovation Agora (GIA), a consultative forum established by the UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States, and a member of the Arab Women network which promotes the role of women in society and works towards ending gender-based violence.
Our guest socials:
Facebook: Banan Abo Zain Aldeen
Twitter: @abuzaineddin
Instagram: abuzaineddin
Banan Abu Zain Eddin is a feminist activist, co-founder, and executive director of Takatoat feminist collective and advocacy and gender trainer. She is a holder of a Diploma degree in Management of Non-Profit institutions and is currently pursuing a second Bachelor in Law. Banan have more than eight years of experience working in the civil society and humanitarian field. She is the co-founder of the “Feminist Sessions” initiative aiming to spread feminist and women’s rights knowledge and contribute to strengthening the young feminist movement in Jordan. Banan worked as a Youth civic engagement Coordinator at Mercy Corps- Jordan and a Field Coordinator with Save the Children international- Jordan. As part of her activism on women’s rights, Banan is a member of the Youth Gender Innovation Agora (GIA), a consultative forum established by the UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States, and a member of the Arab Women network which promotes the role of women in society and works towards ending gender-based violence.
Our guest socials:
Facebook: Banan Abo Zain Aldeen
Twitter: @abuzaineddin
Instagram: abuzaineddin
Randa Siniora is the General Director of the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC). She is a human rights and women’s rights activists with a professional experience in the field of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law for over 35 years. Earlier, she was the Senior Executive Director of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) from 2007 to 2015 and the General Director of Al- Haq, Law in the Service of Man (2001-2005). Previously she also headed the Networking and Advocacy at the WCLAC and worked as a Legal Researcher and Coordinator of the Women's Rights Program at Al-Haq. (1987-1997). Randa Siniora was the first Palestinian woman ever to brief the UN Security Council on Women Peace and Security (WPS) in 2018. In 2019, she was selected among the 100 most influential people in gender policy around the world, one of the largest and most prominent global lists that was drawn from over 9,000 nominations to recognize and celebrate the hard work being done on gender policy by many around the world. Randa has an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex/UK and an MA Degree in Sociology-Anthropology from the American University in Cairo.
Brief about our guest:
Randa Siniora is the General Director of the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC). She is a human rights and women’s rights activists with a professional experience in the field of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law for over 35 years. Randa Siniora was the first Palestinian woman ever to brief the UN Security Council on Women Peace and Security (WPS) in 2018. In 2019, she was selected among the 100 most influential people in gender policy around the world. Randa has an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex/UK and an MA Degree in Sociology-Anthropology from the American University in Cairo.
Podcast topics & References:
Sophie Richter-Devroe, “Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peace building, Resistance, and Survival (2018)
Ishraq Othman @othmanishraq
Humood Alkhudher @humoodalkhudher
An episode created to celebrate women everywhere!
Happy international women’s day to you all!
Get to know all the feminists featured in our podcast episode:
Banan AbuZainEddin
CO-FOUNDER & Executive Director
Takatoat | Amman | Jordan
Socials:
Facebook| Banan Abo Zain Aldeen
Twitter| @abuzaineddin
Instagram| abuzaineddin
Samia Malki
President of Kadirat. Member of the Board of ESCWA's Arab World Report 2025 Vice coordinator of Tha’era network for equality and solidarity. expert strategy
Socials:
Twitter: @SoumayaMelki
Shaima Alblooshi
www.inequalityexposed.com
Socials:
Insta: @Inequality.e
Insta: @sheywarma
Twitter: @inequalityXposed
Twitter: @sheywarma
Shaima Al-Sultan
Writer, Social And Women rights activist.
Socials:
Twitter: @ShaimaJS
Insta: @shaimajs
www.Shaimajs.com
Dr. Al-Anoud Al-Sharekh
Founder of Ibtkar
Socials:
Instagram: @aalsharekh
Instagram: @ibtkar_consult
Website: http://alanoudalsharekh.com
Azza Soliman.
She is an Egyptian lawyer, woman human rights defender and feminist. In 1995 she founded the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA), to offer legal support to victims of abuse and domestic violence.
Socials:
Instagram: @azza.amna
Our guests:
Dr Al-Sharekh is the Director of Ibtkar Strategic Consultancy leading political, leadership and diversity training programs in Kuwait and the GCC region, and has held senior consultative and teaching positions in academic, governmental and non-governmental institutions in the Arabian Gulf and abroad, and is a board member of several academic and non-governmental organisations. She is chairperson of the Chaillot award winning Abolish 153 campaign to end honor killing legislations, and a cofounder of Mudhawi’s List, a platform to support women running for political office.
Asma Khader
A lawyer and advocate for human rights and women empowerment who served as her knowledge and career over the last 50 years in Jordan and the region has made her a sought-after expert in the advocacy, campaigning for women issues, legal analysis, drafting laws, and policy reform in the region and Jordan.
Former minister of culture and former Senate, spokesperson for the government, and now the CEO & Consultant of Solidarity Is Global Institute (SIGI—JO).
Get to know our Episode guest:
Zeina is a feminist and human rights advocate with a BS in Biology (2002) and Masters in Public Health (2004) from The American University of Beirut. Zeina is a certified gender trainer from KIT University- Amsterdam and have been working with International Organizations for the past 10 years as a development and gender expert. She has extensive experience in programming, policy work, research and organizational development in critical areas related to gender mainstreaming and promoting women’s participation in the decision-making spheres.
Persons/entities in the episode:
https://kafa.org.lb/en
https://tii.qa/en/ma-audiovisual-translation-maat
https://www.e-ir.info/2014/11/07/four-waves-of-lebanese-feminism/
About our guest:
Rawaa Augé is the Presenter and producer of “women voices” or “bekasretta” at Al Jazeera Arabic Channel.
Rawaa joined Al Jazeera as a news presenter in 2014, covering a series of reports from the Central African republic, Bosnia, and Lebanon. She covers numerous events for Al Jazeera, including coverage of the United Nations General Assembly meetings. Rawaa has also conducted a number of high profile interviews for the Channel, including an interview with Nobel Prize winner Nadia Murad during the Doha forum 2018. She previously worked for France24 in Paris.
She holds a masters degree in mass communication and a second masters in geopolitics.
Check our guest’s socials:
Instagram: @rawaak
https://www.instagram.com/rawaak/
Check our socials:
Twitter: @women_middle
https://twitter.com/women_middle
Instagram: @wme_podcast
https://www.instagram.com/wme_podcast/
Intisar Al-Amyal is a leading figure in the Iraqi women’s rights organisation “Iraqi Women’s League,” where she works to combat discrimination, increase equality between the sexes, and safeguard the right of education for all Iraqi children and youths. She also educates women and young people on the importance of participating in political life.
She is also the winner of Swedish Per Anger Prize of 2020, for her 20 years of dedication to fighting for equality and the rights of women in Iraq. The Per Anger Prize is an international prize which the Swedish government has distributed since 2004.
Check our socials:
Twitter: @women_middle
https://twitter.com/women_middle
Instagram: @wme_podcast
https://www.instagram.com/wme_podcast/
About our guest:
Sama'a Al-Hamdani is an independent analyst focusing on Yemeni political dynamics, focusing on the role of regional actors in Yemen's war and the obstacles in the path of transitional justice post-conflict. Previously, she was a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), a visiting fellow at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University, and a fellow at the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies (SCSS). She is also the director of the Yemen Cultural Institute for Heritage and the Arts (YCIHA), a non-profit in Washington, DC, dedicated to Yemeni arts and heritage. From 2011 to 2015, she wrote the blog Yemeniaty.com, with the slogan of "Yemen Simplified," which helped explain Yemen's socio-political developments during the Arab Spring and the subsequent civil and regional wars. She has been published both in Arab and Western think tanks. Al-Hamdani has spoken at many events and forums, including at Brown University, the Carnegie Middle East Center, the World Bank, the United Nations, and Chatham House. She has also made appearances on France24, BBC World Service, CNN, Aljazeera, Al-Araby Television, and C-SPAN, among other outlets. Sama'a holds a BA with a major in Religion and Peace Studies and a minor in Women's studies from George Washington University.
Check Sama'a socials:
http://instagram.com/samaa.alhamdani/
Check our socials:
Twitter: @women_middle
https://twitter.com/women_middle
Instagram: @wme_podcast
https://www.instagram.com/wme_podcast/
Our new episode is a conversation with Dr Hadeel Qazzaz , Oxfam International Regional Gender Coordinator. On Arab Women Beyond Stereotypes.
About Our Guest:
Dr. Hadeel Qazzaz, Program Director-Pro-Poor Integrity in Integrity Action. She was born in Gaza Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, a specialist in gender and development. She received her Ed.D. from Leeds University. Qazzaz has contributed to the first Palestinian human development report, the Palestine national poverty report, the Palestine time-use survey, and reports on the right to education. She was involved in the adaptation of the Transparency International Source Book into Arabic.
This episode includes; Examples from “Arab Women” book, an interview with Dr Evelyn Alsultany, and special performance by Aisha.