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Feb 2024
39m 31s

Mounira Jamjoom on entrepreneurship, car...

Strategy& Middle East
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Mounira Jamjoom, co-founder and CEO at Aanaab and Emkan Education, shares her story in an exclusive interview with Karim Sarkis, partner at Strategy. Listen to this episode, part of our ongoing series with Middle East alumni, to learn about a leader's path through academia to consulting to entrepreneurship and beyond

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