About
An idea that started with a personal website
Yalla Khotwa is a non-profit student community in Palestine that helps university students build a free professional portfolio with a permanent link, the proof behind what their CV says. It was founded by Zaid Al-Sahili in 2026 as a personal initiative.
Start
Why Yalla Khotwa started
Yalla Khotwa started with a personal website. When Zaid Al-Sahili built his own site as his portfolio, he noticed that the very idea of a portfolio does not reach many students.
And those who know the idea run into two obstacles: a personal website costs money and needs technical skills not everyone has. So projects, training and courses remain lines on a CV that do not show the effort behind them.
Yalla Khotwa fills this gap: a free, ready-made portfolio with no coding, strengthening a student’s online presence from today. It is a starting point, not a final destination: when a student has their own website, their data moves with them as a complete copy.
Principles
What we believe
A professional presence starts before graduation
From the first year, not after the degree.
Evidence beats claims
One project shown in detail convinces more than ten adjectives on a CV.
The data belongs to its owners
Hide any section, download a full copy, or delete, at any time.
Completely free
Creating, reviewing, publishing and hosting a profile at no cost. No ads, and no selling of data.
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Where we are today
We are starting with business school students in Palestine. Starting small is deliberate: it allows every profile to be reviewed carefully and the experience improved before expanding. Then the door opens to other majors and universities, step by step.
A word from the founder
“The idea began while I was building my personal website as my portfolio. I noticed that the idea of a portfolio is not clear to every student, and that not everyone has the money or the skills to build their own website. So I asked myself: why not give them a space to build their own portfolio and strengthen their online presence now, until each of them has a website of their own?”
خطوة (Khotwa) مبادرة تهدف إلى مساعدة طلاب الجامعات على التعريف بأنفسهم وتقديم مهاراتهم واهتماماتهم وإنجازاتهم من خلال ملفات Portfolio شخصية على الإنترنت.
The initiative gives every student the chance to create a personal page with the most important information they want to show, such as their major, skills, projects, training courses and achievements, in one link that is easy to share.
We believe that building a professional presence does not start only after graduation; students can begin documenting their skills and experience during their university years and develop their profile with every new experience.
تسعى خطوة إلى تسهيل هذه الخطوة، وإتاحة مساحة منظّمة تُمكّن الطلاب من تقديم أنفسهم بصورة واضحة ومهنية، دون الحاجة إلى إنشاء موقع شخصي مستقل من الصفر.
Zaid Al-Sahili
مؤسس خطوة