Rolling Up Their Sleeves: Online, Arab Women Master Their Own Fate

Rolling Up Their Sleeves: Online, Arab Women Master Their Own Fate

March 22, 2016

huffingtonpost.com - "My dream is to have a source of income to cover my basic needs without the need to rely on my family or others but by relying on only myself," Fatma Alqarra, a 25-year-old from Khan Younis in the Gaza strip, told me. Last April I hired Fatma online via Nabbesh.com, an online work marketplace I co-founded with my Syrian partner, Rima Al Sheikh in 2012. I was looking for someone to translate a blog post and Fatma had the experience to do the job:

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