ALWIS interview with Aljazeera
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ALWIS founder Anissa Belfetmi, and ALWIS members, Sakina Benabdelkader and Ihssene Brahimi, ALWIS mentors: Salma Bekkouche and Amina Salesse and her mentee Asmaa Boumezoued, were interviewed by Aljazeera.
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In conversation with the Algerian Women in Science (ALWIS) group
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TIR spoke to Anissa Belfetmi, Sabrina Absalon, and Sarah Helal, three of ALWIS‘ leadership team, to discuss their goals for the organisation and how they plan to help other Algerian women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).
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ALWIS 2021 Retrospective
Another year comes to a close — and there are plenty of things to celebrate. We’re taking a look back at the biggest news and achievement of our community in 2021, showing you how ALWIS grew during this year and all the activities we carried.
With the hard work of our volunteers, we expanded our team and network, launched our first mentoring program, plus hosted several events and workshops. More importantly, we had the chance to meet many astonishing Algerian women scientists.
With the hard work of our volunteers, we expanded our team and network, launched our first mentoring program, plus hosted several events and workshops. More importantly, we had the chance to meet many astonishing Algerian women scientists.
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As we look forward to the next year, we welcome new members to join our ALWIS community. We are looking forward to meeting more Algerian Women in Science next year and continuing the adventure of building our community, Together!
2021 has been an incredible year for ALWIS. Stay tuned for more exciting things for 2022! |
Interview With Safia Bourougaa
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ALWIS Petroleum Engineering Community led by Nina Chalah hosted for their first event a distinguished speaker: Safia Bourougaa an Algerian Drilling Engineer who works as a Drilling Rig Manager and has more than 18 years of work experience in Drilling. Safia is an engineer specializing in oil exploration and production. She graduated from the Algerian Petroleum Institute, class of 2003 and she joined the "National Company of Petroleum Works.
Nina Chalah interviewed Safia Bourougaa for ALWIS and spoke with her about her career in the O&G field and the challenges she’s facing. |
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ALWIS Founder Anissa Belfetmi, and Vice-President Sabrina Absalon participated to a roundtable discussion on the 9th December 2021 to consider the contribution of science to the priorities for the EU-Africa summit. ALWIS joined the session "Women's Movements in African Science, Technology, and Innovation: what are the right policy support instruments".
This session aims to give more visibility to different women's movements in the fields of science... |
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Educational Platforms
_ By Amel Makour, Biology Graduate & ALWIS Volunteer If you're looking for free educational courses with a certificate, this post is for you! Here are few interesting resources and platforms that offer a wide variety of courses from IT, programming, biology, management, business, human resources, and more to learn new skills or boost your career...
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J'encourage les femmes vers les métiers scientifiques en industrie!
_ By Dania Sahnoun; Ingénieur en Hydrocarbures Si je suis membre de cette communauté, ALWIS, c’est pour deux raisons différentes : apporter mon témoignage en tant que femme dans l’industrie et encourager les jeunes filles de nos jours à rejoindre la science. Pour ce qui est de mon témoignage, je peux vous dire que...
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Discrimination against women in intrinsic to the medical career model itself;
_ By Bahia Hakiki MD. Ph.D. & ALWIS Mentor Besides the continuous increase in the number of women in the medical field, it hasn't been accompanied by the rise of women in leadership positions. We can undoubtedly dissect the thousands of sexist behaviors at the origin of these data and rightly speak of discrimination against women...
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Algeria has the highest rate of women engineers in the world;
_ By Nina Chalah, Driling Engineering Student The picture below spotlight an ALWIS Member, Nina Chalah, a drilling engineering student at Oil and Chemistry University of Boumerdes and a youth activist, during her training, at Hassi Messaoud in Algeria, with an international Oil and Gas company, Nabors.
Nina Chalah accepted to answer our questions: |
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Advices from Dr. Nawel Baba Hamed to fight discrimination in science
_ By Dr. Nawel Baba Hamed; General Manger of Pierre Fabre Group With 20 years of expertise in the pharmaceutical industry, management, and corporate strategy, Dr. Nawal BABA HAMED has been named in 2008 General Manager of the Pierre Fabre Group's activities in Algeria. Amongst the tips that Nawel gave during the event is that women must assert themselves, be strong, and...
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The Story of the Algerian Women in Science
_ By Lydia Ait Belkacem; ALWIS Mentor To be a woman in science means to be at the crossroads of technical and educational challenges of science, preset patriarchal expectations of society and also, personal obstacles pertinent to the woman herself. At a young age, an individual who is initially interested in science is either discouraged or encouraged by their surroundings...
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