The winners of the Arab Rally Entrepreneurship Competition in its first and second editions, organized by the Union of Arab Chambers in cooperation with the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, the League of Arab States, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO-Bahrain), a resounding success in their careers, as Forbes magazine announced the most influential and creative youth who have proven their mark in the region and beyond, including the list in its social impact category, Wadah Malaeb (Lebanon), winner of the Arab Rally Entrepreneurship Competition in Bahrain 2019, and Hassan Al Haraki (Syria), winner of the Arab Rally Entrepreneurship Competition Dubai 2022.
On this occasion, the Union of Arab Chambers, the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, and the Investment and Technology Promotion Office of UNIDO in Bahrain congratulated the winners and wished them further progress, as they are an inspiring model for Arab youth.
The “Arab Rally for Entrepreneurship” competition is an initiative of distinguished Arab and regional cooperation, organized by the Union of Arab Chambers in strategic partnership with the League of Arab States, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - UNIDO - Bahrain; dozens of young entrepreneurs, university students and graduates, from all the Arab countries participated in the competition, in its first and second editions, with the aim of linking them to the needs of the labor market and creating more jobs that would contribute to sustainable development in the Arab region.
It is noteworthy that Waddah Malaeb, from the State of Lebanon, is the founder of the Biosystems DLOC project, and the idea of the project is to design a biological chip that allows human cells to grow in an environment similar to the human body. This allows the testing of drugs and their effects, before trying them on humans, so that the transplanted human cells can grow and organize themselves to form three-dimensional tissues, which in turn resemble and represent many human tissues and organs such as the lung, breast, kidney and others.
As for Hassan Al-Haraki, from the State of Syria, he is the founding partner of the "Bevol" platform, which won first place in the second edition of the Arab Rally 2022 competition. “Bevol” is an independent and interactive international social media platform that promotes the culture of volunteerism and enhances the performance of social responsibility, by providing mechanisms to link volunteers and actors through an innovative technological system.
Source (Union of Arab Chambers)
