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After watching Saudi Arabia’s Dalma Rushdi Malhas win Equestrian bronze at the Youth Summer
Games in Singapore last year Moutawakel said,“To see a young girl from Saudi Arabia on the podium
in Equestrian, was phenomenal to us, to me...I was in there watching it, I started crying and broke into
tears because for me it was a very special moment to see a powerful woman coming from the Gulf
states to say ‘hey, I can win’.
“The future of this region is feminine. We have seen women reaching all kinds of levels in
administration, as a minister, even pilot, lawyer, judges and everything. And we will see women
becoming Olympic champions and world champions.
“Success can be achieved. More and more there is a strong participation of women from this region
maybe it’s still shy but there is a presence.”
Awards:
• National Merit (Exceptional Order) awarded by King Hassan II of Morocco (1983);
• Knight of the Lion National Order awarded by President of Senegal Abdou Diouf (1998);
• Unicef Goodwill Ambassador (1999);
• Mérite National de l’Ordre de Commandeur awarded by King Mohammed VI of Morocco
(2004);
• Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit of the Republic of Tunisia (2005);
• “Lifetime Achievement” award from the Laureus association (2010);
• United Nations Goodwill ambassador for the Millinium Developpment Goals (2011).
• The Algemene Bank Maroko named its Casablanca branch the Nawal El Moutawakil bank.
• All-American Citizen by the Mayor of Ames, Iowa, in 1984
• Inducted into the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.
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