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AMMAN — Arab women are more concerned with nutrition issues than men, who seek advice on love more than their female counterparts, according to Jawabkom, a Jordanian tech start-up that enables Arab users to ask experts questions online.
Around 65.2 per cent of queries posed to relationship counsellors on www.jawabkom.com came from men across the Arab world, Raed Malhas, the website’s founder, told The Jordan Times.
Launched earlier this year, the site provides visitors with answers from 60 certified experts to questions related to law, medicine, nutrition, psychology, IT and various other fields.
“Medical questions were very close between men and women, with women asking 52.7 per cent. To our surprise, more men asked psychology-related questions,” said Malhas, who is also a Jordanian investor and a tech entrepreneur.
Legal questions came mostly from young adults aged under 25 in the Arab world (32.3 per cent), he added.
One of the top legal questions from males in this age bracket is about immigration and asylum.
As for women, 39 per cent of their legal questions are about divorce and wives’ rights, 26 per cent about inheritance, 20 per cent on marriage to foreigners and citizenship, and 15 per cent on other legal issues, according to Malhas.
About 49.1 per cent of the website’s visitors are women from across the Arab world, while the rest are men.
Most medical questions come from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Kuwait and Iraq, Malhas said, noting that queries on nutrition mostly come from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan and the UAE.
Meanwhile, most of the legal questions come from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, the UAE and Jordan.
Jawabkom (your answer) daily receives over 3,500 questions, and “we expect to cross 10,000 a day in the next couple of months,” the founder added.
In the first five months since its launch, the website received 2.5 million views a month, and the number is growing week by week.
“We’re aiming to reach up to 10 million views a month by the end of the year,” Malhas said.