Yemen through the eyes of women: Nadia Al-Sakkaf at BOLDtalks Woman 2013
In this talk at BOLDtalks Woman 2013, Nadia Al-Sakkaf describes Yemen through the eyes of its women. She is one of the leading voices in Yemen and in world media on media, gender, development and social issues.
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About the speaker
In March 2005, Nadia Al-Sakkaf became chief editor of the Yemen Times, the country's first independent English-language newspaper and its most widely read. She also became director of the Yemen Times Establishment.
Besides the newspaper, the establishment includes a civil society organisation (the Yemen 21 Century Forum), a printing house, a community radio station and a research centre. She runs it all, managing more than 60 employees and three branches.
Under her leadership, the establishment created several publications, especially ones that advocate women's participation in politics, such as "Breaking the Stereotype" and "LEAD".
Awards and education
In 2006, Al-Sakkaf received the first Gebran Tueni Award for professional media, given by the World Association of Newspapers and An-Nahar newspaper in Lebanon.
She is also the first Arab woman to receive the Oslo Business for Peace Award. She was one of its 2013 honorees: influential business leaders whose achievements show the benefits of a constructive relationship between business and society.
She holds a BE in computer science from the Birla Institute of Technology in India and an MSc in management information systems from the University of Stirling in Scotland.
She was born in Yemen on March 8, 1977. She is married and has two children.