You are here
Muhajaba (veiled) woman director of brewery factory in Damascus
17-7-2018
The Syrian industry minister Mohamad Mazen Ali Yousef issued a directive last week appointing Reem Halale, a veiled (muhajabah) Muslim woman as director to the Barada Brewery in Rif Damascus. Halale, to recall, is the current assistant general director and marketing executive of the General Establishment for Food Industries and a former planning director at the ministry of industry (between 2005-2014). The above decision has sparked controversy among Syrians on social media who saw it as contradictory in terms of what the connotation when a committed muhajabah woman manages an alcoholic drink factory that is forbidden in Islam. For her part, Halale described the minister’s decision as a sign of utmost trust on his part, pledging to do everything she can to repair the local brewery in partnership with a private sector investor, noting that the factory has been demolished in 2012 at the start of the war in neighboring Syria. Likewise, and in response to the wave of objections to Halale’s appointment, the ministry said in a statement that, the decision aimed to cut spending and benefit from the experience of cadres of industrial enterprises and of operational companies in managing the affairs of suspended businesses. And as an assistant to the general director of the General Establishment for Food Industries under which Barada Brewery is enlisted, Halale was assigned to run certain administrative matters, the statement concluded. (Al Diyra, July 15, 2018)
- 14 reads
- العربية
Categories
Events
No upcoming events
Job vacancies
Friday, October 9, 2015
Collective for Research and Training on Development - Action (CRTD.A)