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🇦🇪 Author & Rhodes Scholar. Founder @fikerinstitute . Diplomacy & Global Governance @uniofoxford , Political Science & Literature @NYUAbuDhabi .

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined June 2009
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Dubai Abulhoul
2 years
🇫🇷 Honored to be invited by President @EmmanuelMacron to join him on a panel about universalism 🌍 in the face war, & what that means for the future of effective international cooperation. #PPF2022 @ParisPeaceForum @FikerInstitute
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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I graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters in Global Governance & Diplomacy, as a Rhodes Scholar 🎓
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7 years
"The problem with our world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, and the stupid people are full of confidence." - Bukowski
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4 years
Proud of the inspiring Emirati women who are standing at the very forefront of the UAE’s efforts to combat the spread of #COVID19 . A sincere thanks to you, and to all of your colleagues, for everything you do to keep us all as safe as possible. #EmiratiWomen
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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3 years
Dubai will never stop shinning, no matter who - naively - attempts to overshadow it. We’ve said this before - and we’ll say it again - Dubai will always be Dubai. 🇦🇪 #MyDubai #UAE
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3 years
يسعدني أن أعلن اليوم عن إطلاق «مؤسسة فكر»، وهو مركز أبحاث متعدد التخصصات يتخذ مقره في دبي، ويحمل على عاتقه المهمة التالية: استعادة روايتنا الموجودة في الخارج كمنطقة، والانخراط في حوار فعلي مع بقية المجتمع الدولي حول القضايا الدولية ذات الاهتمام المشترك.
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@DubaiAbulhoul
Dubai Abulhoul
3 years
The world has always had an opinion about the Middle East. It's now time for the Middle East to have an opinion about the world. This is why I decided to launch @FikerInstitute , an interdisciplinary think tank in Dubai. Here’s how you can get involved:
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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“Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.”
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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8 years
Our UAE flag raised for the first time at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10/11/1971. دام عزج يا بلادي 🇦🇪
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10 years
Just finished this. Trying a new, geometric way of drawing http://t.co/3O5QpKs9ui
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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The flag of our United Arab Emirates raised at the United Nations for the first time in New York on December 10, 1971. 🇦🇪❤️
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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7 years
Excited to announce that I am releasing a new series of children's books published by @KalimatGrp next week
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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When we were in Elementary School...#عظم_الله_اجرك_يا_وطن http://t.co/yUKbGggEYM
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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6 years
The more I read, the more I realize how little I know/how much more I have to read - the ultimate paradox of knowledge, I suppose.
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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6 years
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” - Harlan Ellison
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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8 years
Honored, humbled, and grateful to be awarded Young Arab of the Year last night at the #YoungArabAwards !
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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4 years
Happy #WomenInScienceDay to all the inspiring women breaking boundaries and dispelling biased and severely outdated stereotypes, every single day of their careers. Quick Fact: more than 45% of the UAE’s national space program are #EmiratiWomen ! 🚀 #Proud
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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a super moon in a superb city 💙 #mydubai
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4 years
“As you binge watch your tenth Netflix series, or read a book, or listen to a piece of music, remember: that in the darkest days, when everything stopped, you turned to artists.” 📚
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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#اخلع_حذاءك http://t.co/uBeDwAEhM4
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5 years
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
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5 years
From yesterday’s book signing at Sharjah International Book Fair, and the launch of book #5 in my series of children’s books. Thank you to everyone who attended, meeting readers and students is always the best part of #SIBF 📚
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@DubaiAbulhoul
Dubai Abulhoul
4 years
🇮🇹 Happy to share that the first book in my series of children’s books on Emirati 🇦🇪 folklore is now published in Italian, and out in bookstores in Italy.
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7 years
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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6 years
“No one is you, and that is your power.”
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8 years
"كلما خالطت الناس إزددت يقيناً بأن الأخلاق مثل الأرزاق، هي قسمة من الله"
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Dubai Abulhoul
6 years
100 years ago today, our Founding Father, Sheikh Zayed, was born #مئوية_زايد
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Dubai Abulhoul
5 years
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of being selected to be a part of the ‘Inspiring 49’; a federal team of artists, authors, historians, and designers tasked with laying the foundation for the UAE’s unified national brand identity. #UAENationBrand
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7 years
My 4 books (1 novel/ 3 children's books) are now officially added to Rhodes House Library in Oxford!
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@DubaiAbulhoul
Dubai Abulhoul
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After a year and eight months in the making, I am extremely delighted to finally share that we are opening @FikerInstitute ’s new home & library tonight at Alserkal Avenue; a bilingual politics & cultural library with over 15,000 books in its collections.
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5 years
My 6th published book was launched today at the Sharjah Book Fair. The full series is now available at Kalimat Group, Hall 1. 📚 #SIBF2019
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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6 years
“When a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” - Maya Angelou
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@DubaiAbulhoul
Dubai Abulhoul
3 years
#Dubai once again showing the world what effective and efficient crisis management looks like. A true case study. Thank you to our heroes on the ground. #دبي
@DXBMediaOffice
Dubai Media Office
3 years
الحريق تحت السيطرة ولا توجد أي وفيات أو إصابات جراء الحادث في ميناء جبل علي
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I’m honored to be appointed to the COP28 Advisory Committee, under the leadership of the #COP28 President-Designate, HE Dr. Sultan Al Jaber. I look forward to using this opportunity to highlight the recommendations of writers, researchers, authors, & NGOs in the region. #COP28UAE
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“We rise by lifting others.”
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4 years
“And when that day comes, Emirates will fly back to the skies.” 🇦🇪❤️
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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10 years
'Fahrenheit 98.6', my latest article in @thegulftoday http://t.co/D9l7oxZaZf
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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5 years
Excited to reveal that the 5th book in my series of children’s books on Emirati folklore will be launched next week at the Sharjah Book Fair 📚
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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8 years
"ليس الدين بما تظهره المعابد وتبينه الطقوس والتقاليد, وأنما بما يختبئ بالنفوس ويتجوهر بالنيات" - جبران خليل جبران
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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5 years
“Stop taking constructive criticism from someone who hasn’t constructed anything.”
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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6 years
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”
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@DubaiAbulhoul
Dubai Abulhoul
4 years
Given that we are all now spending more time at home, I will be recommending 1 book a day, with a quick summary and a key quote. I invite you to do the same on this hashtag: #QuarantineReads
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Dubai Abulhoul
6 years
80 years later, I accidentally found this postcard inside a secondhand book I bought this morning
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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6 years
I don’t believe that education ends upon graduation; it is only the beginning of a life-long process of searching for real knowledge.
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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6 years
So happy to have the 4th book, “Bu AlSallasel”, in my series of children’s books out now at the Sharjah Book Fair! Thank you @Bodour for all your support & encouragement! 🙏🏼
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Christopher Robbin, and his toy 'Winnie'. His father wrote a children's story about them, and the rest is history.
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9 years
"أستحي أن أحزن ، و أمري كله بيد الله" ❤️
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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8 years
The children of Aleppo should be spending their days in classrooms, not in battlefields; covered with love, not with blood. #PrayForSyria
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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9 years
"What if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you thanked God for the day before?"
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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7 years
We are all praying for the same things 🌟
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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7 years
I love rereading books. I'm forever in awe of how words, 26 letters, can come together to form this kind of magic.
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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7 years
Graduated today from @NYUAbuDhabi with a B.A in Political Science, and a minor in literature. Thank you #NYU for the amazing 4 years.
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3 years
Being an Arab ‘bedouin’ is an honor, responsibility, & privilege. The ‘desert’ you’ve looked down on for decades has given our region its only hope for a better future: open, inclusive, & forward thinking countries like the #UAE . 🇦🇪
@AlArabiya_Eng
Al Arabiya English
3 years
Watch: Lebanese Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe insults Saudi Arabians by referring to a Saudi guest on a show as "one of the Bedouin people" after the minister appeared to blame the Gulf countries for the rise of ISIS earlier during the interview.
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اللهم ارحم من جعلنا أسعد شعب، و كل عام و وطننا الغالي بألف خير و سلام 💛🇦🇪 #اليوم_الوطني_الاماراتي_47
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9 years
So proud of Shamma Al Mazrui, our youth minister and representative! 🇦🇪 ألف مبروك إختي شما 💗
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9 years
We're literally sending a mission to Mars and you are still discussing whether it is 'right' for women to wear colored abayas? Really?
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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10 years
"I want to change the world, but I don't know how." "Read books by people you disagree with." http://t.co/wLJuEiALGf
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7 years
Irony of reading: the more you read, the more you realize how little you know.
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4 years
Proud of the young #Emirati doctors who took this decision. This truly global crisis will only be overcome through international cooperation and solidarity; values that the #UAE has always championed, and will continue to promote 🇦🇪.
@FranceEmirats
France aux Emirats
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9 Emirati physicians of the 🇨🇵🇦🇪 Residency program, decide to stay in France to help their fellows against #COVID19 . Strong cooperation links and a very much appreciated #solidarity . Thank you ! @mohap_uae @MinSoliSante #StayHome 🏡 #FranceUAE 🇨🇵🇦🇪
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6 years
A scan of UN Resolution 304(1971) which marked the UAE's first application as a country to the United Nations in December 1971. The country registered on December 2nd 1971, and was admitted on the 8th 🇦🇪❤️
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So happy to finally see my book-inspired artwork turned into a Peace Carpet by @fbmi_uae 🙌🏻 hand-woven by female artisans in Afghanistan. As part of FBMI’s #Yearofthe50 , all proceeds will go to building 50 wells in Afghanistan to provide inaccessible villages with clean water.
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I have a dream that one day audience members attending panel discussions will actually ask questions, as opposed to go on and on (2-3 min monologues) without getting to the point. Just a thought.
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3 years
“English is a language, not a measure of intelligence.”
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1 year
Honored to be invited to speak at Harvard about our work at @FikerInstitute , and on cultural diplomacy in the Arab world. Looking forward to an exciting weekend ahead! #ACH2023
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من كتاب "إن لم، فمن؟" ل #خالد_الفيصل
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7 years
A monument dedicated to Egyptian writer Ahmad Shawky, in one of the parks in Rome.
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6 years
What is the best book you’ve read in 2018? (Working on my 2019 to-read list)
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8 years
The UN's Resolution 304(1971) which marks the UAE's official application as a country to the United Nations in 1971.
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5 years
“If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.” - Muhammad Ali
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5 years
“It’s those who are against you who believe in your power the most.”
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8 years
My notebook from 7th grade.
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2 years
It was a pleasure moderating the 2nd lecture of the Majlis Mohamed Bin Zayed Ramadan Lecture Series by HE Dr @AnwarGargash on the topic of security & stability in a changing world 🌍 from a 🇦🇪 perspective. Thank you to the Majlis Mohamed Bin Zayed team for their kind invitation.
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10 years
"I asked God to protect me from my enemies and before I knew it, I started losing some friends."
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9 years
"And if they asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?"
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6 years
From my book reading session for Grade 3 today! #ChildrensLiterature #EmiratiFolklore @Mawakeb_Garhoud
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حَمَاكِ الْإِلَهُ شُرُورَ الزَّمَان 🇦🇪
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"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."
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5 years
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - #MLKJr
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9 years
Please tell me again how we "don't really need feminism"? http://t.co/eZ8GWogaNY
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“Some people are their own punishment in life.”
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9 years
Social media accounts are for free because we pay with our privacy. This really is something to think about.
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3 years
"حين سكت أهلُ الحق عن الباطل، توهم أهل الباطل أنهم على حق."
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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7 years
Excited to say that I started my Masters in Diplomacy as a Rhodes Scholar at @UniofOxford this week
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10 years
Very, VERY powerful photo. #socialmedia http://t.co/tsRn62lx00
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8 years
"Some people will see you walk on water, and say it's because you can't swim."
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7 years
On social media
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Dubai Abulhoul
4 years
A truly inspiring initiative launched by @HamdanMohammed - a timely effort to engage, unify, and mobilize the residents and citizens of Dubai in our collective fight against COVID19. Our city and our country need us now, more than ever. 1/2
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@DubaiAbulhoul
Dubai Abulhoul
2 years
Thank you @WorldGovSummit 👋 looking forward to this year’s edition.
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3 years
Harvard, what kind of headline is this? Here’s an alternative suggestion: Gender stereotypes *will* actually harm organizations/entities that don’t actively eradicate norms that put women at a disadvantage. The real joke is on the men - & women - who still think like this.
@HarvardBiz
Harvard Business Review
3 years
Women may actually be harming their presentation outcomes by making jokes.
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@DubaiAbulhoul
Dubai Abulhoul
3 years
I would like to thank the German Embassy in Abu Dhabi, Goethe-Institut, & Cultural Foundation for featuring my books in their latest exhibition. This collaborative effort aims to highlight the mutual influences, ideas, & cultural exchanges between the Arab world & Germany. 🇦🇪🇩🇪
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@DubaiAbulhoul
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7 years
"I came. I saw. I wrote."
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@DubaiAbulhoul
Dubai Abulhoul
3 years
Looking forward to participating in the 2022 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, where Sharjah will be the Guest of Honor 🇦🇪🇮🇹📚
@UAEBBY
المجلس الإماراتي لكتب اليافعين
3 years
Buongiorno folks! Join Sharjah, the Guest of Honour at Bologna Children's Book Fair 2022, as we unveil an extraordinary cultural programme with authors, illustrators and storytellers from the UAE and the Arab region!
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8 years
Just saw a group of 5-7 year olds walk into a bookstore and argue over who will read more books this month. Really made me smile. #nyc
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