Manal Rostom is a prominent marathoner and mountaineer who has achieved many firsts for Arab women.
She was the first Egyptian woman to run the Great Wall of China in May 2016 and to summit Mont Blanc.
She has climbed seven high-altitude mountains, including Kilimanjaro and Elbrus. She has run 13 marathons, including NYC, Berlin, Chicago, Boston and the London Marathon.
She is the founder of Surviving Hijab, an 800,000-strong women’s only Facebook group that helps defy stereotypes and empower women who wish to wear the hijab.
The group was recently awarded Facebook’s community leadership fellowship award. Rostom was the first Hijabi woman to model in a Nike Running campaign, which she did in 2015 and was the first Arab to be featured in an audio guided run on the global Nike Run Club app in 2018.
Manal lso became the global face of the Nike Pro Hijab in March 2017.
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