Rania Salama is a Media personality and entrepreneur from Saudi Arabia.
She owns and serves as president of the Arabiyat International Information Technology Foundation, as well as serving as the magazine’s main editor and a board member of the Aram Al-Ihsan Company.
Her educational background and upbringing
Rania Suleiman Salama was born on August 9, 1974, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
She received her diploma from Dar Al Hanan Science School in 1992–1993.
In 1997, she graduated from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. Later, in 2000, she started the first Arabic electronic magazine with original content after teaching herself design and programming.
Rania Salama Positions
- Rania Salama became a Jeddah Al-Faisaliah Charitable Society member in 2005.
- She served as Vice Chairman of the Communications and Information Technology Committee at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 2007 to 2012.
- She served as chair of the Young Women Entrepreneurs Committee at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry and became a Mecca Youth Voluntary Association member in 2012.
Achievements of Rania Salama
- She designed marketing strategies, produced job-specific online programmes, and pioneered the idea of e-sponsorship for regional events in addition to media and satellite sponsorships.
- Rania trained many Saudi women cadres to work in the electronics sector through remote work on the publishing system.
- Rania has given several lectures on electronic publishing at the University and College for Girls in Jeddah, and she is featured in the worldwide encyclopaedia Who’s Who.
- She established the first Arabic-language online electronic magazine.
Rania Salama’s Artworks
Rania Salama took part in various publications and technological and cultural verifications in newspapers and magazines. Ms Rania Salama also participated in many satellite programmes related to economics and debate.
Here are some of her works:
- She contributed many pieces to the Arabiyat magazine’s monthly section between 2000 and 2011, including Before the Return, Makers of Life, and An Honourable Portrait of Saudi Women. She also authored the critical piece “Mahfouz” in 2001, which is also one of her best-known pieces.
- She wrote a weekly column for the Okaz newspaper’s commentary page from 2004 until 2008.
- She wrote a book on her high school, Dar Al Hanan, in 2008, dedicating it to Queen Yvette, the woman who started the Dar Al Hanan Schools.
