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Athar Festival launches Maheerah Network for women-empowerment

Over the next three years, the Maheerah Network is designed to be a long-term enabler for women in every stage of their career.

Maheerah NetworkThe network will consist of three core pillars: Maheerah Network, Maheerah Programme, and Maheerah Alumni.

Athar – Saudi Festival of Creativity has announced the launch of the Maheerah Network, an initiative, powered by Publicis Groupe, that aims to become a year-round platform dedicated to enabling, inspiring, and nurturing women in the creative marketing and communications industry in the Kingdom.

Over the next three years, the Maheerah Network is designed to be a long-term enabler for women in every stage of their career. The first of its kind for women in creative marcomms in Saudi Arabia, the initiative aims to establish an industry standard for leadership, empowerment, and continuous development.

“Saudi Arabia continues to make significant strides in women’s empowerment and is firmly


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Shantelle Nagarajan is Campaign Middle East’s Junior Reporter who covers marketing news which focuses on FMCG, real estate and brand retail industries. Her features delve into brand strategy, appointments, trends in consumer behaviour and CX. Shantelle also contributes to social media coverage, editorial event programming and print content work. She previously worked in PR and marketing, most recently at Edelman, where she was part of the Brand team. When she’s not writing for her day job, you can find her with her nose buried in a book, playing at a weekly open mic night or doom-scrolling the latest make-up challenges on TikTok.