In its latest “30Under30” list for 2021, Forbes magazine has ranked Nour Boodai, CEO and founder of Dars Learning, among the most promising talents in the Middle East and North Africa, in the under 30 years social impact category.
The magazine said that the educational technology startup Dars Learning has helped more than half a million students in more than 50 countries, and has spent more than 4 million minutes of private lessons.
The magazine added Noor Boodai currently has a team of 120 employees working under her from offices in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan and Egypt.
She introduced the ‘Darisni project’, which provides students with on-demand tutoring over the Internet.
Another experiment currently underway is dClips, which creates short and concise content to help students understand educational concepts.
To date, more than 4,000 educational units have been created under this project, specially designed for learners of the Arabic language.