Preserving culture and heritage through social enterprise

Alfanar Venture Philanthropy is hosting a webinar to explore how heritage-driven creativity is fuelling entrepreneurship, sustaining craft and design ecosystems, and shaping inclusive economies rooted in local identity.

"Reclaiming Arab Art & Design: Heritage as a Catalyst for Creative Economies" will advance practical, locally led solutions at the intersection of heritage, livelihoods and the region’s creative economies.

Topics to be discussed will include:

• How are Arab creatives transforming cultural preservation into viable, scalable business models?
• What role can social entrepreneurship and strategic philanthropy play in sustaining traditional crafts and design ecosystems?
• What does it take to build inclusive creative economies rooted in local identity and ownership?

Speakers

• Fatma Ghaly
  CEO, Azza Fahmy Jewellery
• Nathalie Kordahi
  General Manager, L’Artisan du Liban 
• laria Speri
  Director, The Wonder Cabinet
• Elsie El Deek Bou Jaoude
  Director, USEK Museum (Moderator)

Notes

This event is being hosted by Alfanar. It takes place at 3pm Dubai. Register here.