A recent analysis by the Harvard Business Review suggests that Arab inventors play a major role in U.S. innovation, and the success of major U.S. tech companies. As the current U.S. administration attempts to limit immigration from several Arab states, these contributions deserve extra attention.
Arab inventors contribute significantly to America’s tech scene, in Silicon Valley, Boston, and elsewhere. Tech entrepreneurs such as Amr Awadallah, cofounder of Cloudera, Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of LittleBits, Rana El Kaliouby of Affectiva, Sharif El Badawi of TechWadi, Mo Gawdat of Google, and Oussama Khatib, director of the Stanford Robotics Lab, are but a few examples of Arab immigrants making major contributions to America’s innovation scene.
Read the full story at Harvard Business Review.