"Forbes" reveals 50 women who made brands in the Middle East in 2023.. Who are they?

Inspirational Arab women have been able to have their own brand name spread across the Middle East, at a time when Arab and North African women face major challenges in the field of entrepreneurship. Women-led companies constitute less than 5% of the total companies in the region, compared to With the global average of 23% to 26%, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, according to Forbes magazine.

Forbes Middle East revealed a list of 50 women who made brands in the Middle East for the year 2023, and this classification included 6 sectors: fashion, beauty, jewelry, accessories, shoes, and perfumes.

The Egyptian and Lebanese nationalities topped the Forbes ranking for this year, with 14 Egyptian personalities, the same number of Lebanese, while the classification generally included businesswomen from 21 different nationalities.

The list also included 4 Saudi women, while the UAE topped the list with 20 companies headquartered in the country, followed by Lebanon with 10 companies, and Egypt with 7 companies.

Hind Al-Sabni, a Moroccan, topped the cover of Forbes Middle East, and she is the first Arab to contribute to the establishment of a beauty company to be listed on Nasdaq, and her image appeared larger than the truth on a huge screen in Times Square in New York.

While the Iraqi Huda Qattan, the owner of the brand "Huda Beauty", came in first place in the classification, and in the second place came Omani Rayan Al-Sulaimani, CEO and fashion designer of the brand (Atelier Zuhra), a high-end fashion house founded by her mother Moza Al-Awfi, and the third place came Moroccan fashion designer Salma Benomar, and the fourth, Hind Al-Sabti, whom we mentioned before, and the fifth place, the Moroccan beauty expert, Mona Al-Abbasi.

Among the most prominent Egyptian businesswomen included in the list, Sarah Onsi, who topped the first row in the collage image published by the website in the report, is a fashion designer who previously participated in the 76th Cannes Film Festival, with her unique designs.

The list also included the fashion designer Marmar Halim, who owns 13 branches all over the world for her brand, and was distinguished for her designs with a unique Egyptian touch. It also included Azza Fahmy, the jewelry designer, as well as the fashion designer, Hadia Ghaleb.

The list also included fashion designer Nour Azazi, who, in addition to her brand, was responsible for designing the stars' dresses during the ceremony of transferring 22 mummies of the kings and queens of ancient Egypt from the Egyptian Museum to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

The list also included, “20 Women Who Made Middle Eastern Technology Brands” for the year 2023, the founders who established strong companies working in the field of technology, and the UAE topped the list because it is the headquarters of 11 companies in the classification, followed by Egypt with 3 companies and Saudi Arabia with two companies. While Jordanian women dominate the list with 4 institutions, followed by institutions from Egypt, Britain and Turkey, with two businesswomen each.