Mary Aaron

The curtain falls on the year 2019, to show lists of leadership and inspiration in the various fields of life, science and academia, and the strongest, most influential and inspiring figures emerge from the folds of these global lists.

In the new millennium, Muslim women draw a new map adorned with their distinctive roles. An international list or a high award was not disturbed, but the Muslims had a share.

Amina Muhammad
Amina Mohamed has held the post of Special Adviser to the former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the post-2015 international development agenda, and has acquired a key role in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and she is currently the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, the highest international position with a veiled Muslim woman.

Amina has worked on three Nigerian development projects with an annual value of $ 1 billion, and in 2015 she held the position of Minister of Environment of Nigeria, where she worked hard on the issue of global warming and nature protection.

Amina Mohamed devoted decades of her life to the academic career, and worked as an assistant professor in the field of development practices at Columbia University, which placed her among experts and consultants for major projects and institutions concerned with development and education.

Among her most prominent roles as an expert in the field of the environment: her leadership is a project on harnessing the information revolution for sustainable development, in addition to her charitable role in the global development program at the Melinda Gates Foundation.

Amina culminated in a career spanning 35 years by entering the 2019 Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

Reda Tabouli
Reda Al-Tabouli heads the "Together We Build It" Foundation, which was established in 2011, with the aim of supporting peacebuilding and assisting Libyan women at all levels, especially education, and later founded the Libyan Women System Project, which aims to support women with skill and professional experience and develop their skills to suit the labor market.

Reda’s work has contributed to the top of the BBC’s list of the 100 most influential and inspiring women in the world. She has also been invited by the Security Council to deliver a speech on the situation in Libya on behalf of the “Together We Build It” Foundation.

"Together We Build It" Foundation supported women's participation in the peace-building process in Libya in an unprecedented manner, which drew attention to the role of Reda Al-Tabouli and her team in supporting Libyan women, and those efforts strengthened the nomination of the coordinating president of the Foundation, Hajar Al-Sharif, within the short list of Rio's nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2019.

Although not lucky this year, she is one of ten young men chosen by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to become one of the most important organizers of the project to combat violent extremism, and Hajar leads several files with Reza.

Nour Shaker
The Syrian Nour Shaker has held several research and academic positions at reputable universities in the world, worked as an assistant professor at Aalborg University, and also conducted post-doctoral research at the prestigious Information Technology University in Denmark.

Noor has specialized in biotechnology and artificial intelligence, and during the past year she received the High Emerging Star Medal from British Prime Minister Theresa May for her active role in harnessing artificial intelligence technology for pharmaceutical and medical research, to be in 2019 on the BBC's list of the 100 most influential and inspiring women in the world .

Noor linked her research between quantum computers and artificial intelligence in a way that contributes to accelerating the design of new drugs that are effective in diseases that have always been difficult, and contributed to reducing the time needed for research in experiments thanks to this technology, which enabled her to be among the inventors list under the 35 issued For the prestigious MIT Technology Review.

Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar has become famous since her election as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives for the Democratic Party in 2016, and she became the first American Somali woman to be elected to this position in the United States of America.

She successfully completed her political career when she won a seat in the US Congress with Rashida Talib, a politician from the same party as well, becoming the first Muslim women to congress and becoming the first female veiled in the US Congress.

Ilhan Omar's tough stances and permanent standing spread especially with President Donald Trump, and neither of them left a chance except to violently attack the other, and Trump accused her of being anti-Semitic.

Although Arab and Muslim women have always shined in all international forums, Western media often accuse them of being reluctant to know and work, contrary to what the international lists celebrating women show that are not without mentioning Arab and Muslim women who inspired the world this year.

The BBC's list of the most influential women in the world included 17 Arabs, and the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the world included five Muslim women, among them the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajid, who has been leading the Forbes and Power lists in the world for years, it has been included in it more A year.