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Nasreen Alissa
Saudi lawyer and social entrepreneur From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nasreen Alissa (نسرين عبد الرحمن العيسى) is a Saudi lawyer and social entrepreneur. She is among the first few female lawyers to have been granted the permit to practice law in Saudi Arabia.[1]
Education
Nasreen holds an LLB from Nottingham Law School. She completed her bachelor’s in Sociology at the University of British Columbia and her LLM and LPC at City University.[1]
Career
In 2018, Nasreen established a law firm in Saudi Arabia named The Law Firm of Nasreen Alissa. She won Lawyer Monthly’s Information Technology Lawyer of the Year Award in 2021.[1] She founded and developed KnowYourRights, a mobile application in KSA and the region aimed at empowering Saudi women, as well as providing free advice on family law matters.[2][3] KnowYourRights was released on July 4, 2016.[4][5] In 2022, she won the Woman of the Year award in the Law category of Arabian Business’ KSA Women’s Excellence Awards.[6] In February 2023, she won the title of Ambassador of Tourism and Culture in “Innovations of the Kingdom”.[7]
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