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The White Hands campaign warns from the increasing unemployment faced by women. ● The first three Arab women run for presidency in their courtiers ● Technical processes of shooting the first of the TV programs of the campaign The Distinguished Woman is taking place. ● The White Hands campaign ambassador has received feedback from associations and women organizations to support the campaign and they all have announced their membership.● More than 6000 requests have reached to the campaign's administration to qualify for the "Distinguished Woman" program and from all over the Arab World. ● The White Hands campaign ambassador is getting ready to meet the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Gender Issues with her delegation in New York. ● 65 TV channels have joined to support the White Hands campaign as partners in defending women issues ● The poet Kareem Al-Iraqi is writing a poem to support the objective of the campaign and it has been decided to showcase his work to the singer Majda Al Roomi to sing it. ● The ambassador of the White Hands campaign Rihab Zein El Den announces that the positive feedback she received have topped her expectations. ● There are 9 million Arab children that do not join elementary school, and 45 percent of the population does not attend high school. ● 90 years have passed since forming the first women union in the Arab World. ● The White Hands camping emphasizes on the guarantee of women rights in education and employment. ● Arab women only get 30 percent from the total job opportunities. ● The White Hands campaign starts with a communication campaign to contact Arab women organizations. ● Discrimination against women takes place in all of the Arab countries.

The Distinguished Woman

The White Hands Ambassador

The Campaign in the Press

The White Hands Ambassador

Rihab Zein El Den

A Lebanese media figure and one of the distinguished media personals in the Arab World, with a Bachelor education in Psychology.

She started her media career in Future TV, and still a trainee, she hosted a TV youth program to later take interest in humanitarian and social works, making her rejecting to accept many TV programs for the lack of content that appeals to her humanitarian aspiration.

One of her conspicuous characteristics is her reading passion, both that of western and Arabic publications.

Her childhood was not easy, it is remembered when she was ten years old, she stood over the dinning table, carrying a wooden spoon, and presenting her family members a long vociferous speech, announcing her rejection to the Israeli occupation to southern Lebanon, and the Israeli kidnapping of her father, to realize that her voice was unheard, except to her family, and she figured that the only platform to express what goes inside is the mass media…

Another childhood experience she endured was when she was kept at the protection of the United Nations with her other peers till cease fire between the Zionist occupation and the Lebanese resistance alarmed her release to be cocooned with her family, however carrying painful memory in her many travels to include France, Canada, and Saudi Arabia, and to settle with her family in the UAE, and that is when she started her main steps in the media.

In 2004 her journey to break into the media world through her visionary impetus that the media has a great role to bring awareness in society and to reflect luminously on the most important social issues, to include one of the main social dilemmas that she cared to give her keen interest to - the women issues and their suffering.

She naturally followed her interest in women issues by taking three years of intensive studies to study the media academically, and that is when she started presenting dialogue programs and news bulletins to be familiar with all of the angles in media.

Later, she started presenting one of the most important programs in the Arab World, that is the White Hands Campaign, as she was one of those establishing members of the campaign, she also contributed in innovating some of the campaign's project, and she was honored at the fourth Arab Producers Forum, and was chosen among the best four TV presenters in the Arab World, along side Zahi Wahbi, Mustafa Bakri, Mahmoud Sa'ad… an amazing achievement, before she used to look at the campaign as if it is a distant dream produced by the most important organizations, the APUTV.