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May A. Rihani
May Rihani is a pioneer in girls’ education and a tireless advocate of women’s rights. She served as co-chair of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) between 2008 and 2010. Her se...view moreMay Rihani is a pioneer in girls’ education and a tireless advocate of women’s rights. She served as co-chair of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) between 2008 and 2010. Her seminal book, Keeping the Promise, is a framework for advancing girls’ education that is used by global organizations.
Her knowledge on the subject is drawn from years of experience designing and implementing programs in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East for a range of donor agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, UNICEF, the World Bank, as well as private and corporate foundations such as GE and ExxonMobil.
With reports of abduction and assassination of girls in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries for the sin of seeking an education, May Rihani’s work could not be more relevant or timely. She has faced and firmly talked down hardboiled Afghan leaders and respectfully argued with uncompromising male community elders in African, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries using their values to gain their support for programs that would improve educational opportunities for girls.
In the U.S., she has played an important part in increasing our awareness of the challenges young women around the world face by testifying on Capitol Hill, and by contributing to the docudrama, Girl Rising produced by Ten Times Ten that aired on CNN in 2013.
Born and raised by remarkable parents in Lebanon during that country’s “golden years,” May Rihani is a woman whose full life is dedicated to helping girls and women take charge of their lives. She is able to do this while remaining feminine and in love with life and beauty. She is recognized in her country and the Middle East as an out of the box thinker and poet with three volumes of poetry to her credit.
Cultures Without Borders is the story of a unique woman who has found and embraced the Other within herself.view less