Women in Motion: How Dosy Is Rewriting Egypt’s Mobility Script

“Mobility is a basic freedom — we’re just helping women access it,” says Nouran Farouk, co-founder of Dosy Bikes.

When Farouk speaks, her words are steady but charged with purpose. She is not just describing a start-up; she is describing a quiet act of rebellion — one that began with a scooter and a question no one seemed to ask out loud: why should not women ride?

In 2019, Farouk and her sister, Menna, launched Dosy, Egypt’s first women-led mobility platform dedicated to training, ride-hailing, and motorbike buying/selling. What began as a simple effort to teach women to ride has grown into a movement, challenging traffic, tradition, and the long-held notion that streets belong to men.

From Medicine to Mobility

Before Dosy, Farouk’s life was in white coats, not helmets. “I graduated from medical school and completed my master’s in Internal Medicine at Ain Shams University,” she recalls. “Dosy began during my residency year. My sister, who had prior experience working in start-ups, suggested it. She said, “‘Why don’t we start something like this?’ and we just went for it.”

At the time, Farouk knew nothing about entrepreneurship. “I was used to structure; the hierarchy of hospitals, the certainty of medicine,” she tells Egyptian Streets. “But, when we started Dosy, people were unusually excited. Within six months, someone from South Africa reached out to write about us. It was the first sign we were onto something real.”