Nayla Hayek, Amal Alam Eddine and Leila Solh among 100 most powerful Arab women

In its issue of today, L’Orient Le Jour daily uncovered the 2016 list of the most powerful Arab women for the year as published by the Arabian Business online magazine. The list showed a drop in the number of Lebanese women from 12 and 17 women for 2014 and 2015 to only 10 women the present year. Among the names published by the newspaper is Nayla Hayek, CEO and Co-Founder of the world’s biggest watch companies, Swatch, who came seventh in the list, whereas the British-Lebanese lawyer, Amal Alam Eddine Clooney, came 17th, falling from the second position in 2015. For her part, former minister, and current vice-president of Al Waleed Bin Talal Humanitarian Foundation, Leyla El Solh Hamadeh, came 24th with a decline of  7 grades from last year. Among other prominent women on the list, the international journalist Raghida Durgham, came 28th, followed by journalist and writer, Joumana Hadad, 36th, going up from 54. Grace Najjar, on the other hand, the management consultant for a number of private and public sector projects, came 42nd after having occupied the 39th position in 2015. Feyrouz, the legend singer, moved up the list from 86th rank last year to 63 this year, followed by activist Christine Tohmeh who came 68th. Finally, Lebanese entertainers Elissa and Miriam Fares ranked 71st and 81st respectively. (L'Orient Le Jour, March 15, 2016)