December 17, 2021

Smashing the glass ceiling

To Mayar Darwish, the Women Take the Lead Network has been both eye-opening and empowering. She is planning to share her experience with her team of women at Pepsico.
December 17, 2021

Entertaining Dialogues

Bullying, violence among children, gender-based violence, women empowerment and youth leadership skills were among the focal issues to the initiatives selected for the Dialogical Edutainment Academy […]
December 20, 2021
DEDI Bilingual Design Furniture Exhibition

Making new ways

Mix ancient Egypt with Danish minimalism, talented designers, and experienced craftsmen, and you get 13 unique stools. Danish-Egyptian dialogue on the floor of a factory in Damietta is a recipe for innovation.
December 30, 2021

Meeting up in Amman

Coming from all walks of life and four countries the ambassadors of dialogue to come joined together in Amman and learned about empathy, active listening, acknowledging […]
December 30, 2021
Ambassdors for dialogues facilitated a workshop in Wadi El Gdedd this year. Photo: AFD

AFD in El Wadi El Gdeed

We were contacted to do a workshop in December 2020 in El Wadi El Gdeed governerate. We were thrilled because it will be the first time since the project started to have any events there.
December 30, 2021
Julie Lorentzen, Head of Division, Department of Management and Communication, Health and Care Administration at Københavns Kommune. Photo by Photo by Jakob Pagel Andersen

A new motivation

Meeting Egyptian women in leadership positions not only gave Julie Lorentzen a better understanding of life in Egypt. It also made her learn something about herself and her own country.
January 18, 2022
Egyptian Delegation CPH:DOX

Egypt at CPH:DOX 2022

Egyptian delegation & accredited film professionals announcement to CPH:DOX This year DEDI has been able to offer three ways of supporting accreditation to the 2022 edition […]
January 24, 2022
AFD National Seminar

A year of growth

If we were to describe 2021 in one word, it would be “growth”. With 26 new ambassadors joining the team, along with a new batch of […]
January 26, 2022
DEDI Green Gate workshop (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

2021 at DEDI

The year started off with many Covid related cancellations and rearrangements until April came along and slowly things started to come to life. 
February 1, 2022
Katrine Ebdrup Damgaard at Women Taking the Lead (Photo: Jakob Pagel Andersen)

Be the change

Katrine Ebdrup Damgaard has felt the benefits of the Women Take the Lead network in her conversations with male colleges and when she was holding job interviews.