Nadia Al-Sakkaf

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Nadia al-Sakkaf is a Yemeni journalist and politician .

Nadia al-Sakkaf studied computer science in England and graduated with an MSc in Information Systems Management . Since 2000 she has worked for the Yemen Times , the largest and most widely read newspaper in the country, initially as a translator, journalist and editorial assistant. Her areas of expertise were v. a. Development policy issues, gender issues and media in the Middle East , especially in Yemen . She was the newspaper's editor-in-chief from 2005 to 2014, until she joined Prime Minister Khalid Bahah's government in 2014 as the first female minister of information in Yemen. In this office she reported on the invasion of the Houthi militias in January 2015. The entire government resigned on January 22, 2015 and Al-Sakkaf went into exile in Saudi Arabia .

Since 2015 she has worked as an expert on Arab and Muslim politics for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy . In 2003, Nadia Al-Sakkaf joined Oxfam in the UK and worked on both humanitarian projects and the International Monetary Fund's poverty reduction program.

Al-Sakkaf is married and has one daughter.

Honors and prizes

In 2006 al-Sakkaf was awarded the Gebran Tueni Prize by the World Association of Newspapers and the newspaper an-Nahar in Beirut . In 2013 she was one of 100 Women of the BBC and received the “Business for Peace” award in Oslo .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ambreen: Nadia al-Sakkaf | WISE Muslim Women. (No longer available online.) In: www.wisemuslimwomen.org. Archived from the original on December 21, 2016 ; accessed on January 20, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wisemuslimwomen.org
  2. ^ Cabinet and Hadi resign. (No longer available online.) In: Yemen Times. Archived from the original on April 21, 2015 ; accessed on January 20, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yementimes.com
  3. ^ How Yemen information minister's tweets broadcast the fall of Sana'a. In: Guardian. May 21, 2015, accessed January 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Nadia al-Sakkaf. In: washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ 100 Women: Who took part? In: BBC News . November 22, 2013 ( bbc.com [accessed December 13, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Nadia Al Sakkaf, Chief editor of Yemen Times, receives Business for Peace Award. May 23, 2013, accessed January 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Nadia Al-Sakkaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yemeni politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century