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{{Short description|Yemeni politician; editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times}}
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'''Nadia Al-Sakkaf''' ({{lang-ar|نادية عبد العزيز السقاف}}; born 8 March 1977) is a Yemeni Minister and politician. She was the Co- Founder of the ''[[Yemen Times]]'' from 2005 until 2014, before becoming Yemen's first female [[Minister (government)| Minister]]. She fled Yemen in 2015 after the [[Houthi takeover in Yemen|coup]] and is currently a PhD Leader at [[Reading University]] in the United Kingdom. She is also known of coming from one of the richest families in Yemen.
| native_name = نادية عبد العزيز السقاف

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| image = Nadia Al-Sakkaf, AlJazeera Channel - May 11, 2015.jpg
| caption = Al-Sakkaf interviewed by AlJazeera in 2015
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|3|8|df=y}}
| father = [[Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf]]
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[Birla Institute of Technology]]|[[University of Stirling]]|[[University of Reading]]}}
| office1 = [[Ministry of Information (Yemen)|Yemeni Minister of Information]]
| primeminister1 = [[Khaled Bahah]]
| president1 = [[Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi]]
| term_start1 = 7 November 2014
| term_end1 = 1 December 2015
| office2 = ''[[Yemen Times]]'' editor-in-chief
| term_start2 = 2005
| term_end2 = 2014
| awards = {{Awards|[[Business for Peace]]|2013}}
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'''Nadia Abdulaziz Al-Sakkaf''' ({{langx|ar|نادية عبد العزيز السقاف}}; born 8 March 1977) is a former [[Ministry of Information (Yemen)|Yemeni Minister]] and politician. She was the editor in chief of the ''[[Yemen Times]]'' from 2005 until 2014, before becoming Yemen's first female [[Minister (government)|Minister]] of Information. She fled Yemen in 2015 after the [[Houthi takeover in Yemen|coup]] and is currently an independent researcher in politics, media, development and gender studies based in the United Kingdom.
In 2011, Al-Sakkaf gave a popular [[TED talk]] called "See Yemen through my eyes" which had over 3 million views.<ref name=ted>{{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/nadia_al_sakkaf_see_yemen_through_my_eyes|title=See Yemen through my eyes|first=Nadia|last=Al-Sakkaf|publisher=ted.com|date=July 2011|accessdate=6 January 2017}}</ref><ref name=siblings/>
In 2011, Al-Sakkaf gave a popular [[TED talk]] called "See Yemen through my eyes" which had over 3 million views.<ref name=ted>{{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/nadia_al_sakkaf_see_yemen_through_my_eyes|title=See Yemen through my eyes|first=Nadia|last=Al-Sakkaf|publisher=ted.com|date=July 2011|accessdate=6 January 2017}}</ref><ref name=siblings/>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Al-Sakkaf was born in March 1978 to Aziza and [[Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf]].<ref name=huff/> Her father was a lecturer in economics at [[Sana'a University]], a founder of the [[Arab Organization for Human Rights]] and founded the ''Yemen Times'' in 1991.<ref name=siblings>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/the-siblings-fighting-for-freedom-of-expression-in-yemen|title=The Siblings Fighting For Freedom of Expression in Yemen|first=Flore|last=Vasseur|date=21 August 2012|accessdate=6 January 2017|work=World Crunch}}</ref><ref name=huff/> She has two brothers and one sister.<ref name=siblings/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss23/family.htm |work=Yemen Times |title=Family |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040328083831/http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss23/family.htm |archivedate=28 March 2004 }}</ref>
Al-Sakkaf was born in March 1977 to Aziza and [[Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf]].<ref name=huff/> Her father was a lecturer in economics at [[Sana'a University]], a founder of the [[Arab Organization for Human Rights]] and founded the ''[[Yemen Times]]'' in 1990.<ref name=siblings>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/the-siblings-fighting-for-freedom-of-expression-in-yemen|title=The Siblings Fighting For Freedom of Expression in Yemen|first=Flore|last=Vasseur|date=21 August 2012|accessdate=6 January 2017|work=World Crunch}}</ref><ref name=huff/> She has two brothers and one sister.<ref name=siblings/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss23/family.htm |work=Yemen Times |title=Family |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040328083831/http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss23/family.htm |archivedate=28 March 2004 }}</ref>


Al-Sakkaf has a [[Bachelor of Engineering]] in computer science from the [[Birla Institute of Technology]] in India and a Master of Science in Information Systems Management from the [[University of Stirling]] in the United Kingdom. She was a student member of [[Amnesty International]].<ref name=wise/> As of 2016, she is studying for a PhD at Reading University.<ref name=new>{{cite web|url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/author/2016/2/7/nadia-al-sakkaf|title=Nadia Al-Sakaaf|publisher=The New Arab}}</ref>
Al-Sakkaf has a [[Bachelor of Engineering]] in computer science from the [[Birla Institute of Technology]] in India, a Master of Science in Information Systems Management from the [[University of Stirling]] in the United Kingdom and a PhD in [[political science]] from [[Reading University]].<ref name=new>{{cite web|url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/author/2016/2/7/nadia-al-sakkaf|title=Nadia Al-Sakaaf|publisher=The New Arab}}</ref> She was a student member of [[Amnesty International]].<ref name=wise/>


==Career==
==Career==
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Al-Sakkaf worked in [[Oxfam]]'s humanitarian program in 2003.<ref name=wise/> In March 2005, she became the editor in chief of the ''Yemen Times''. In 2011, during the [[Arab Spring]] in Yemen, Al-Sakkaf and her staff participated in protests demanding that Saleh step down<ref name=beast/> and played a significant role in reporting the [[Yemeni Revolution]] to the wider world.<ref name=ted/> Al-Sakkaf is a member of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate and the International Journalists Syndicate.<ref name=wise/> She is an advocate for [[women's rights]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Interview-Yemen-Times-editor-Nadia-Al-Sakkaf|title=Interview: 'Yemen Times' editor Nadia Al-Sakkaf|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=17 February 2012|accessdate=6 January 2017|first=Felice|last=Friedson}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2014/04/10/nadia-al-sakkaf-how-the-arab-spring-empowered-women/|title=Nadia Al-Sakkaf: How the Arab Spring empowered women|first=Roja|last=Heydarpour|date=10 April 2014|accessdate=6 January 2017|work=The New York Times}}</ref> successfully recruiting female journalists to bring a gender balance to the newspaper's staff and running articles on [[female genital mutilation]].<ref name=beast/><ref name=ms/>
Al-Sakkaf worked in [[Oxfam]]'s humanitarian program in 2003.<ref name=wise/> In March 2005, she became the editor in chief of the ''Yemen Times''. In 2011, during the [[Arab Spring]] in Yemen, Al-Sakkaf and her staff participated in protests demanding that Saleh step down<ref name=beast/> and played a significant role in reporting the [[Yemeni Revolution]] to the wider world.<ref name=ted/> Al-Sakkaf is a member of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate and the International Journalists Syndicate.<ref name=wise/> She is an advocate for [[women's rights]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Interview-Yemen-Times-editor-Nadia-Al-Sakkaf|title=Interview: 'Yemen Times' editor Nadia Al-Sakkaf|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=17 February 2012|accessdate=6 January 2017|first=Felice|last=Friedson}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2014/04/10/nadia-al-sakkaf-how-the-arab-spring-empowered-women/|title=Nadia Al-Sakkaf: How the Arab Spring empowered women|first=Roja|last=Heydarpour|date=10 April 2014|accessdate=6 January 2017|work=The New York Times}}</ref> successfully recruiting female journalists to bring a gender balance to the newspaper's staff and running articles on [[female genital mutilation]].<ref name=beast/><ref name=ms/>


In 2012, she launched ''Radio Yemen Times'', an FM radio station which was Yemen's first free public platform for expression, broadcasting ten hours a day as an alternative to the [[state media|state-monopolised]] [[Media of Yemen|media]].<ref name=ms/>
In 2012, she launched ''Radio Yemen Times'', an FM radio station which was Yemen's first free public platform for expression, broadcasting ten hours a day as an alternative to the [[state media|state-monopolised]] [[Media of Yemen|media]].<ref name=ms/> In 2014 she launched Radio Lana, the first community radio in the south of Yemen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/lanafmaden|title=Radio Lana|date=21 August 2020|accessdate=21 August 2020}}</ref>


Al-Sakkaf was appointed Information Minister under Prime Minister [[Khalid Bahah]] in 2014.<ref name=black/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/yemen-forces-houthi-rebels-clash-sanaa-20151195716226461.html|title=Yemen clashes throw capital into chaos|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=19 January 2015|accessdate=6 January 2017}}</ref> On 20 January 2015, when [[Houthi]] fighters stormed the capital and took control of all media outlets, Al-Sakkaf took to Twitter to report the coup. She later said, "I felt more like a reporter than the minister of information. I wasn't scared at the time but I was afterwards when I realised the implications. My name was everywhere. I had more than 20,000 more followers on Twitter in one day."<ref name=black>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/on-the-middle-east/2015/may/21/how-yemen-information-ministers-tweets-broadcast-the-fall-of-sanaa|title=How Yemen information minister's tweets broadcast the fall of Sana'a|first=Ian|last=Black|date=21 May 2015|accessdate=6 January 2017|work=The Guardian}}</ref> In May 2015, Al-Sakkaf was living in exile in [[Riyadh]] as a member of the internationally recognised Yemeni government seeking to restore [[President (government title)|President]] [[Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi]] to power.<ref name=black/> As of 2016, she is studying in the United Kingdom, and continues to serve on the ''Yemen Times'' board of directors,<ref name=wi/> as well as writing about the ongoing situation in Yemen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2016/5/12/ethnic-hatred-in-yemen|title=Ethnic hatred in Yemen|first=Nadia|last=Al-Sakkaf|date=12 May 2016|accessdate=6 January 2017|work=The New Arab}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2016/2/8/a-silver-lining-in-yemens-tragedy|title=A silver lining in Yemen's tragedy|date=8 February 2016|accessdate=6 January 2017|first=Nadia|last=Al-Sakkaf|work=The New Arab}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ru/contents/articles/originals/2016/07/yemen-hadramout-forces-aqap-isis.html|title=What is the real challenge for Yemen's Hadrami Elite forces?|date=16 July 2016|accessdate=6 January 2017|first=Nadia|last=Al-Sakkaf|work=Al Monitor}}</ref>
Al-Sakkaf was appointed Information Minister under Prime Minister [[Khalid Bahah]] in 2014.<ref name=black/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/yemen-forces-houthi-rebels-clash-sanaa-20151195716226461.html|title=Yemen clashes throw capital into chaos|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=19 January 2015|accessdate=6 January 2017}}</ref> On 20 January 2015, when [[Houthi]] fighters stormed the capital and took control of all media outlets, Al-Sakkaf took to Twitter to report the coup. She later said, "I felt more like a reporter than the minister of information. I wasn't scared at the time but I was afterwards when I realised the implications. My name was everywhere. I had more than 20,000 more followers on Twitter in one day."<ref name=black>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/on-the-middle-east/2015/may/21/how-yemen-information-ministers-tweets-broadcast-the-fall-of-sanaa|title=How Yemen information minister's tweets broadcast the fall of Sana'a|first=Ian|last=Black|date=21 May 2015|accessdate=6 January 2017|work=The Guardian}}</ref> In May 2015, Al-Sakkaf was living in exile in [[Riyadh]] as a member of the internationally recognised Yemeni government seeking to restore [[President (government title)|President]] [[Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi]] to power.<ref name=black/>


Al-Sakkaf is the director of Yemen 21 Forum a development NGO based in [[Sana'a]].<ref name=wi>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/nadia-al-sakkaf|title=Nadia al-Sakkaf|publisher=The Washington Institute}}</ref>
Al-Sakkaf is the director of Yemen 21 Forum a development NGO based in [[Sana'a]].<ref name=wi>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/nadia-al-sakkaf|title=Nadia al-Sakkaf|publisher=The Washington Institute}}</ref>

In 2020 she is co-founder of the National Reconciliation Movement, a Yemeni initiative for peace, and in 2021 she co-founded Connecting Yemen, an organisation advocating for affordable and equal access of internet in Yemen.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} She serves as deputy chair of the National Committee responsible for Monitoring the Implementation of the National Dialogue Conference's outcomes.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-04-15|title=Nadia Al-Sakkaf|url=http://forum.aljazeera.net/speakers/nadia-al-sakkaf|access-date=2021-05-29|website=Al Jazeera Forum|language=en|archive-date=22 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022115438/http://forum.aljazeera.net/speakers/nadia-al-sakkaf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Al-Sakkaf has published in the fields of politics, media, and development. She also published a book collection on the experiences of Yemeni women as electoral candidates available in Arabic and English. Her TED Talk Yemen through my eyes, is one of the most known videos on Yemen as it was translated to 34 languages and had over half a million views.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}


==Awards and honors==
==Awards and honors==
Al-Sakkaf was the first recipient of the [[Gebran Tueni]] Award in 2006, given by the [[World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers]] and ''[[An-Nahar]] Newspaper'' in [[Beirut]].<ref name=wise/> In 2013, she received the [[Business for Peace Foundation|Oslo Business for Peace Award]], an award chosen by winners of the Nobel Prizes in [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Economics]] and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] and given to leaders in the private sector who have "demonstrated transformative and positive change through ethical business practices."<ref name=ms>{{cite web|url=https://www.mediasupport.org/nadia-al-sakkaf-chief-editor-of-yemen-times-receives-business-for-peace-award/|publisher=International Media Support|title=Nadia Al Sakkaf, Chief editor of Yemen Times, receives Business for Peace Award|date=23 May 2013|accessdate=6 January 2017}}</ref><ref name=wi/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ye.undp.org/content/yemen/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2013/05/14/nadia-al-sakkaf-a-yemeni-businesswoman-receives-business-for-peace-award-honored-on-may-14th-at-akershus-nobel-prize-fortress-in-oslo-.html|title=Nadia Al Sakkaf – a Yemeni Businesswoman receives Business for Peace Award, honored on May 14th at Akershus Nobel Prize Fortress in Oslo|date=14 May 2013|accessdate=6 January 2017|publisher=UNDP|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107005948/http://www.ye.undp.org/content/yemen/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2013/05/14/nadia-al-sakkaf-a-yemeni-businesswoman-receives-business-for-peace-award-honored-on-may-14th-at-akershus-nobel-prize-fortress-in-oslo-.html|archive-date=7 January 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was recognised by the ''[[BBC]]'' as one of "100 women who changed the world" in 2013.<ref name=wi/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-24579511|title=100 Women: Who took part?|date=22 November 2013|accessdate=6 January 2017|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
Al-Sakkaf was the first recipient of the [[Gebran Tueni]] Award in 2006, given by the [[World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers]] and ''[[An-Nahar]] Newspaper'' in [[Beirut]].<ref name=wise/> She received the Free Media Pioneers Award from the International Press Institute in [[Vienna]] on behalf of the Yemen Times in the same year.<ref name=ipi>{{cite web|url=https://ifex.org/ipi-names-yemen-times-free-media-pioneer-2006/|title=IPI names “Yemen Times” Free Media Pioneer 2006|date=5 May 2006|accessdate=21 August 2020}}</ref> In 2013, she received the [[Business for Peace Foundation|Oslo Business for Peace Award]], an award chosen by winners of the Nobel Prizes in [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Economics]] and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] and given to leaders in the private sector who have "demonstrated transformative and positive change through ethical business practices."<ref name=ms>{{cite web|url=https://www.mediasupport.org/nadia-al-sakkaf-chief-editor-of-yemen-times-receives-business-for-peace-award/|publisher=International Media Support|title=Nadia Al Sakkaf, Chief editor of Yemen Times, receives Business for Peace Award|date=23 May 2013|accessdate=6 January 2017}}</ref><ref name=wi/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ye.undp.org/content/yemen/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2013/05/14/nadia-al-sakkaf-a-yemeni-businesswoman-receives-business-for-peace-award-honored-on-may-14th-at-akershus-nobel-prize-fortress-in-oslo-.html|title=Nadia Al Sakkaf – a Yemeni Businesswoman receives Business for Peace Award, honored on May 14th at Akershus Nobel Prize Fortress in Oslo|date=14 May 2013|accessdate=6 January 2017|publisher=UNDP|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107005948/http://www.ye.undp.org/content/yemen/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2013/05/14/nadia-al-sakkaf-a-yemeni-businesswoman-receives-business-for-peace-award-honored-on-may-14th-at-akershus-nobel-prize-fortress-in-oslo-.html|archive-date=7 January 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was recognised by the ''[[BBC]]'' as one of "100 women who changed the world" in 2013.<ref name=wi/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-24579511|title=100 Women: Who took part?|date=22 November 2013|accessdate=6 January 2017|publisher=BBC}}</ref> She was also chosen by the World Economic Forum as one of 2015 distinguished Young Global Leaders.<ref name=youngleaders>{{cite web|url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/03/meet-the-2015-class-of-young-global-leaders/|title=Meet the 2015 Class of Young Global Leaders|date=23 May 2015|accessdate=21 August 2020}}</ref>


==Publications==
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Latest revision as of 09:02, 26 November 2024

Nadia Al-Sakkaf
نادية عبد العزيز السقاف
Al-Sakkaf interviewed by AlJazeera in 2015
Yemeni Minister of Information
In office
7 November 2014 – 1 December 2015
PresidentAbdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Prime MinisterKhaled Bahah
Yemen Times editor-in-chief
In office
2005–2014
Personal details
Born (1977-03-08) 8 March 1977 (age 47)
Parent
Alma mater
AwardsBusiness for Peace
2013

Nadia Abdulaziz Al-Sakkaf (Arabic: نادية عبد العزيز السقاف; born 8 March 1977) is a former Yemeni Minister and politician. She was the editor in chief of the Yemen Times from 2005 until 2014, before becoming Yemen's first female Minister of Information. She fled Yemen in 2015 after the coup and is currently an independent researcher in politics, media, development and gender studies based in the United Kingdom. In 2011, Al-Sakkaf gave a popular TED talk called "See Yemen through my eyes" which had over 3 million views.[1][2]

Early life and education

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Al-Sakkaf was born in March 1977 to Aziza and Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf.[3] Her father was a lecturer in economics at Sana'a University, a founder of the Arab Organization for Human Rights and founded the Yemen Times in 1990.[2][3] She has two brothers and one sister.[2][4]

Al-Sakkaf has a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science from the Birla Institute of Technology in India, a Master of Science in Information Systems Management from the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom and a PhD in political science from Reading University.[5] She was a student member of Amnesty International.[6]

Career

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Al-Sakkaf worked as a systems analyst at the Arab Experts Center for Consultancy and Systems.[6] She joined the Yemen Times in July 2000 as a translator and reporter. The newspaper is the country's first independent English language newspaper and was started by her father in 1991. He died in 1999 after being hit by a car, although Al-Sakkaf and her brother believe he was assassinated for opposing the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.[3][7] She became an assistant editor in September 2000.[6]

Al-Sakkaf worked in Oxfam's humanitarian program in 2003.[6] In March 2005, she became the editor in chief of the Yemen Times. In 2011, during the Arab Spring in Yemen, Al-Sakkaf and her staff participated in protests demanding that Saleh step down[7] and played a significant role in reporting the Yemeni Revolution to the wider world.[1] Al-Sakkaf is a member of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate and the International Journalists Syndicate.[6] She is an advocate for women's rights,[8][9] successfully recruiting female journalists to bring a gender balance to the newspaper's staff and running articles on female genital mutilation.[7][10]

In 2012, she launched Radio Yemen Times, an FM radio station which was Yemen's first free public platform for expression, broadcasting ten hours a day as an alternative to the state-monopolised media.[10] In 2014 she launched Radio Lana, the first community radio in the south of Yemen.[11]

Al-Sakkaf was appointed Information Minister under Prime Minister Khalid Bahah in 2014.[12][13] On 20 January 2015, when Houthi fighters stormed the capital and took control of all media outlets, Al-Sakkaf took to Twitter to report the coup. She later said, "I felt more like a reporter than the minister of information. I wasn't scared at the time but I was afterwards when I realised the implications. My name was everywhere. I had more than 20,000 more followers on Twitter in one day."[12] In May 2015, Al-Sakkaf was living in exile in Riyadh as a member of the internationally recognised Yemeni government seeking to restore President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi to power.[12]

Al-Sakkaf is the director of Yemen 21 Forum a development NGO based in Sana'a.[14]

In 2020 she is co-founder of the National Reconciliation Movement, a Yemeni initiative for peace, and in 2021 she co-founded Connecting Yemen, an organisation advocating for affordable and equal access of internet in Yemen.[citation needed] She serves as deputy chair of the National Committee responsible for Monitoring the Implementation of the National Dialogue Conference's outcomes.[15]

Al-Sakkaf has published in the fields of politics, media, and development. She also published a book collection on the experiences of Yemeni women as electoral candidates available in Arabic and English. Her TED Talk Yemen through my eyes, is one of the most known videos on Yemen as it was translated to 34 languages and had over half a million views.[citation needed]

Awards and honors

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Al-Sakkaf was the first recipient of the Gebran Tueni Award in 2006, given by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers and An-Nahar Newspaper in Beirut.[6] She received the Free Media Pioneers Award from the International Press Institute in Vienna on behalf of the Yemen Times in the same year.[16] In 2013, she received the Oslo Business for Peace Award, an award chosen by winners of the Nobel Prizes in Economics and Peace and given to leaders in the private sector who have "demonstrated transformative and positive change through ethical business practices."[10][14][17] She was recognised by the BBC as one of "100 women who changed the world" in 2013.[14][18] She was also chosen by the World Economic Forum as one of 2015 distinguished Young Global Leaders.[19]

Publications

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  • Al-Sakkaf, Nadia (October 2012). "Yemen's Women and the Quest for Change: Political Participation after the Arab Revolution" (PDF). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Personal life

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Al-Sakkaf is married to a Jordanian man and they have two children.[3][6][7]

References

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  1. ^ a b Al-Sakkaf, Nadia (July 2011). "See Yemen through my eyes". ted.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Vasseur, Flore (21 August 2012). "The Siblings Fighting For Freedom of Expression in Yemen". World Crunch. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d Abu-Fadil, Magda (25 May 2011). "Nadia al-Sakkaf: Yemen Times Editor on a Mission". HuffPost. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Family". Yemen Times. Archived from the original on 28 March 2004.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ "Nadia Al-Sakaaf". The New Arab.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Muslim Women: Past and Present". Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d Sheehy, Gail (3 April 2014). "Editor on Fire". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  8. ^ Friedson, Felice (17 February 2012). "Interview: 'Yemen Times' editor Nadia Al-Sakkaf". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  9. ^ Heydarpour, Roja (10 April 2014). "Nadia Al-Sakkaf: How the Arab Spring empowered women". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  10. ^ a b c "Nadia Al Sakkaf, Chief editor of Yemen Times, receives Business for Peace Award". International Media Support. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Radio Lana". 21 August 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  12. ^ a b c Black, Ian (21 May 2015). "How Yemen information minister's tweets broadcast the fall of Sana'a". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  13. ^ "Yemen clashes throw capital into chaos". Al Jazeera. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  14. ^ a b c "Nadia al-Sakkaf". The Washington Institute.
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  16. ^ "IPI names "Yemen Times" Free Media Pioneer 2006". 5 May 2006. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
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