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The Big Read: The female entrepreneurship experience in Egypt


This Q&A is with Prof. Alia El Mahdi, professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. It is part of Salaam Gateway’s International Women's Day 2020 series that is co-designed and curated by Nyra Mahmood, MD of UK-based Simply Sharia Human Capital (SSHC LTD), the publishers of the 2016 report "Women in Islamic Finance & Islamic Economy”.

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