In this issue, I present Rowayda Sadek, Professor of Networking Engineering, Security and Signal Processing at the Helwan University in Egypt. It is extremely interesting to get a view of how it is to work as a female scientist in an Arab country. Rowayda was already a brilliant student in school and had a strong family background to act as a pioneer female scientist in her country. She has inspired many young female students to follow her way into science and technology. Here, she describes the challenges for women in the Middle East, which appear quite different from the earlier stories in this column, but there are several similarities, as well.