Middle Eastern Descent Archives

First female chairperson of the Chemical Engineering Department of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan

Faize Fatma Shevket (b. 1913) may have been Asia’s first woman to qualify as a chemical engineer.

Edinburgh’s first female graduate in chemical engineering

Pakistani chemical engineer and expert in waste treatment and the use of mineral and natural resources for sustainability and land reclamation

Syrian swimmer and human rights activist

Pakistani engineer

Oscar-winning Pakistani documentary filmmaker

Iranian Nobel-winning human rights activist

Pakistani-American author

Afghan poet murdered by her husband