Zainab Salbi

Zainab Salbi

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1969-09-24 (55 years old)

Biography

Zainab Salbi (Arabic: زينب سلبي; born 1969) is an Iraqi American women's rights activist, writer, television show host, and podcaster. She is the co-founder of Daughters for Earth, a fund and a movement of Daughters rising up worldwide with climate solutions to protect and restore Mother Earth. She is also the co-founder of Women for Women International, a non-profit organization that helps women affected by sexual violence and conflict. She hosted Through Her Eyes and #MeToo, Now What? television shows, about issues affecting women. From 2022 she hosted the Redefined podcast.

In her 2005 memoir Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam, Salbi recounted her early life: Born in Baghdad to a father who later became Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family arranged her marriage and emigration to the United States, in order to remove her from the proximity of Hussein, who had started showing unwanted attention to her. After an abusive marriage in the U.S., she divorced her husband and started her humanitarian career. She is also the author of the nonfiction book The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival & Hope which documents the stories of women survivors of war.

In September of 2023, Zainab Salbi was honored with the Time100 Impact Award.

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TV Shows 2

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Female

Birthday
1969-09-24 (55 years old)

Birth Name
زينب سلبي

Birth Place
Baghdad, Iraq

Religion
Islam

Relationships
Amjad Atallah (1993 - 2007)

Citizenships
Iraq

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