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Pioneering Women Prepared by Fatima Ahmed Al-Kamali

Elham Al Qasimi

is the first Emirati and Arab woman to

reach the North Pole

Human ambition does not recognize support for their daughter encouraging However, she said that each person’s
any limits, as a person may go with his her as all her family members blessed feelings were different when they
thought up and up without stopping. that bold and difficult step. However, reached this point, as she felt that
Here is Elham Al Qasimi, an Emirati they were anxious about going through her experience was individual by all
woman who came to tell people in the such a risky experience. She also standards.
world that she is the first Arab woman received support from some friends Al-Qasimi suffered a lot during her
from the Emirates who decides to make and athletes who love these challenges, journey as the bitter cold had caused
an arduous journey to the geographical and there was great support from the her a severe pain and made her fingers
North Pole without assistance. companies that helped sponsor that freeze, which hindered her movement
Mrs. Elham Al Qasimi, who was born journey in order to complete it as fully but she survived till the end.
in the UAE in 1982 AD, obtained a BA as possible. Al-Qasimi returned to her country,
in Business Administration from the Al Qasimi was subjected to difficult raising the banners of success in
American University in Dubai. She also trainings in order to be able to go achieving the difficult dream. She
holds a Master’s degree in Social Policy through the journey, and she said that dedicated that success that she had
from the London School of Economics. she did not consider them as hardships achieved to the President of the State,
but rather real challenges. These
Al Qasimi seemed to love difficult May Allah bless him, and to the rulers
adventures and challenges, she began exercises were to have the strength of in the Emirates. She also dedicated her
her search for that difficult challenge endurance within her so that she could success to every Emirati woman and
in 2009, and indeed she did some withstand her arduous journey. thus Elham Al Qasimi became a symbol
exercises and prepared herself for that Al-Qasimi succeeded in reaching her of the Emirates as she fulfilled the
trip to the North Pole for the first time goal and embarked on her journey to toughest challenge she was seeking.
in her life. the North Pole during the year 2010
Al Qasimi family provided the necessary AD, accompanied by a group of people.

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