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Apr 2020
29m 13s

Dr Rana Dajani on the science of her suc...

The National
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Dr Rana Dajani is considered one of the most influential women in the Arab world. She is a molecular biologist who received a Fulbright scholarship to do a PhD in the USA. She has lectured at Yale, the University of Cambridge and has a fellowship at Harvard. As a social entrepreneur she started the We Love Reading programme in Jordan that now operates in ove ... Show More
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