Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt to employ women for first time

As Egyptian women struggle to fight for their professional rights in the banking sector, the Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt announced for the first time in 38 years that it was willing to employ women.
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Lubna Hilal, pioneering female Egyptian banker and former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, seen in a still from a video filmed in Jordan and uploaded April 3, 2017. - YouTube/ GIZ - Financial Inclusion in the MENA Region
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Amr Eltohamy

CAIRO — Ayah Azeb, a 26-year-old graduate of the Faculty of Commerce at Cairo University, is among several women to become employed Aug. 11 by the Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt (FIBE) in Egypt.

FIBE announced July 31 that it will start appointing women to all of its branches for the first time since the bank was established in 1979 as the first Islamic bank in Egypt by the late Mohammed bin Faisal al-Saud, son of the late Saudi King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.

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