Amazing Arab Women

In Honor of International Women's Day, Here's 17 Times We Loved Arab Women This Year

1 March, 2017 by Georgia Bobley

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International Women's Day falls annually on March 8th, but we're going to be celebrating all month long.

This year was big for Arab women in particular, and both in the region and abroad, boundaries were pushed, records were broken, and women achieved more than ever before. From Saudi's unprecedented 4-women Olympic team to the 7-year-old giving a voice to the children of Aleppo, here are 17 women who amazed us this year.

Emirati ice hockey player Fatima Al Ali meets The Washington Nationals

Afghanistan's first and only female orchestra wins a major award

Linda Sarsour leads the Women's March on Washington

Saudi jewelry designer creates a desert-inspired collection

Saudi women create viral music video asking for equal rights

7-year-old Bana Tweets from Aleppo, and gets out safely

Zaineb Abdullah teaches Muslim women self-defense

Hijabi runner Rahaf Khatib makes the cover of Women's Running magazine

Sisters Hamda and Amna Al Qubaisi become the UAE's youngest pro female race car drivers

The first female-only mosque opens in Copenhagen

Egyptian weightlifter Sara Ahmed becomes the first Arab woman to win an Olympic medal in weightlifting

Before she was an Olympian, Yusra Mardini saved over 20 lives

Ibtihaj Muhammad becomes the first American to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab

Four Arab women headline Nike's newest global campaign

Saudi Arabia sent four women to the 2016 Summer Olympics for the first time

A Tunisian fencer dedicated her Olympic medal to all Arab women

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