The College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah organized a symposium on human development and women’s empowerment under the title (Women’s Role in Making Society and Facing Challenges)

 The symposium included a lecture delivered by the human development expert, Ms. Ibtisam Saad Ghani Al-Sayegh, Director of the Martyr Sabah Abbas Foundation and Al-Aqila Zainab Al-Kubra Religious Schools.

 It shed light on the characteristics of a positive personality, how to build and evaluate a strong and influential personality in society, how to coexist with society and develop capabilities for the better. The lecture also included a set of basics for building a positive and influential personality, including self-courage;  The beauty of life requires sacrifice, just as personality is a set of innate self-disciplines that are born with man as part of his legacies and are independent of the external environment, and personality is affected by birth and the environment.

 The typical personality is the one who can face problems, is compatible with the self and with good, and does not think about harming the other.

 Mrs. Ibtisam indicated that success is one of the causes of problems. The more successful a person is, the more he faces the problems of envy and hate.

 The spokeswoman cited women's evidence throughout history, including the Virgin Mary, peace be upon her. She faced the harshest things a woman could face, but the Creator forced her to be satisfied and she sacrificed to give birth to a leader of a nation.  Then I dealt with part of the life of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra and Lady Bint Al-Huda, who was supportive of her brother, and how these great women set an example in being patient and facing difficulties.