NAWF - Forum

23. - 24. October 2008
Intercontinental Phoenicia Hotel
Beirut - Lebanon

The Arab world today is in the midst of a major process of transformation marked by a general improvement in economic fundamentals, solid growth, very large and rising financial surpluses among the oil producers, an accelerating pace of economic reform and liberalization, and attendant gradual social change.

Arab women are increasingly at the center of this ongoing transformation and major players in it. As business leaders and executives, political and social activists, wealth holders and investors, consumers, and mothers, they are a growing force to reckon with and to take account of. In particular, wealth controlled by women in the GCC countries only was estimated at US$346 billion in 2007 and projected to rise to US$385 billion by 2011.

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