Hajar Ali

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Hajar Ali is a Singaporean entrepreneur, founder of Urbane Nomads and the website Travel Like a Humanitarian. She was the first recorded woman to cross the Rub' al Khali, the "Empty Quarter" of the Arabian Peninsula. Ali has a master's degree in strategic studies from the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore, now the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; her thesis "[applied] James C Scott's model of peasant resistance to the daily transgressions of Iranian youths against the ruling mullahs". She previously worked as a real estate agent. Ali founded Urbane Nomads, a bespoke luxury travel agency, in 2008 after conceiving the idea while traveling in Patagonia. A lover of horses, she likes to include riding in the company's trips. She later launched Travel Like a Humanitarian, a website on which NGOs can advertise travel offerings. In March 2012, she made the first known crossing of the Rub' al Khali by a woman. Read more

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