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YouTube appoints Dubai based Hayla Ghazal

YouTube appoints Dubai-based Hayla Ghazal ‘Change Ambassador’

By: Zeeshan Akbar

DUBAI: YouTube has appointed Dubai-based Hayla Ghazal as one of its first Change Ambassadors to fight for gender equality as part of a new partnership between YouTube and the UN.

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Change Ambassadors will create content to raise awareness to eliminate discrimination against women.

The first group of YouTube’s Change Ambassadors features prominent international female YouTube stars, including Hayla Ghazal (UAE), Ingrid Nilsen (US), Jackie Aina (US), Yuya (Mexico), Taty Ferreira (Brazil),  Louise Pentland (UK) and Chika Yoshida (Japan).

YouTube appoints Dubai-based Hayla Ghazal ‘Change Ambassador

“I found my voice on popular video-sharing platform ‘YouTube’ through sharing my videos about lifestyle and entertainment and over the years I’ve built a family of fans that I can connect with on what’s happening in culture and the issues that are relevant to me as a woman,” says Hayla Ghazal.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.