Palestinian Platform Helps Arab Students Find International Scholarships

By Maya Rahal. Improving education is the goal of every government in the Arab world today. Yet rather than wait for governments and political situations to change, two Palestinian entrepreneurs from Nablus are taking education into their own hands with Scholarshiper, an online platform that helps connect Arab students to international scholarships. In 2009, Jafar Hajeer and Ibrahim Dweikat realized that Arab youth, especially in Palestine, were missing on many opportunities to study abroad, simply because information about potential scholarships and programs was not readily available in Arabic. Read more...