Participation in Your Middle East Entrepreneurship event (#YMEstartup), link with video can be found at:

http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/business/ymestartup-attracts-big-crowd-in-erbil-to-talk-entrepreneurship-video_28190

“Key to any startup is legal expertise; hence it was not by coincidence that Rejna Alaaldin joined the expert panel. Alaaldin founded Kurdistan Legal Services, a law firm in Erbil, after she lost appetite for working under someone else’s leadership. She mentioned, however, that being a female leader in Kurdistan can be quite the challenge: “Middle Eastern men don’t like to receive orders from women, even the younger men.”