Jawad Nabulsi – Egyptian Entrepreneur

Back in 2011, Jawad Nabulsi stood up to the Hosni Mubarak regime and was shot in the eye. However, as soon as he felt better he found an eye patch and decided to use his entrepreneurial skills for good. During the first uprising in Egypt, he launched the Nebny Foundation that provides medical assistance to many people.

Nabulsi even turned down a post-revolution offer to become the Minister of Youth. He dedicated many hours to providing Cairo’s poor with medical assistance, education, micro-loans and business advice. In fact, his organization had such a great impact that it was chosen by the World Bank from over 40,000 Middle East non-government companies to be a donor recipient. He was also awarded the Khalil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Award in 2011.

Now residing in America, he had been attending Harvard University to complete his master’s degree in Public Administration which he completed in 2015. Before he graduated he co-authored an article titled “A Call for Tolerance and Understanding” after the massacre of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill. Now he is working on a Master’s in Management at Stanford while continuing to run the Nebny Foundation. In 2016, Arabian Business named Nabulsi one of the 100 most influential young Arabs in the world.

The masculine name Jawad is derived from the Arabic noun jawad that means “steed” or horse” or the adjective jawad that means “generous”. There are many notable people with the name, from Jawad al-Bulani the former minister and Iraqi politician or Jawad Ahmad the Pakistani singer and musician.