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Zainab Salbi, speaker

Zainab Salbi

    • Founder, Women for Women International
    • Best-Selling Author & TV Host
    • Humanitarian Serving Women Survivors of Wars
    • Named One of the top 100 "Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company
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Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace

Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace

How to Befriend Your Own Darkness

How to Befriend Your Own Darkness

Zainab Salbi Speaker Biography


People Magazine named her as one of the “25 Women Changing The World” in 2016, Foreign Policy Magazine named her as one of the “100 Leading Global Thinkers,” and Fast Company identified her as one of 100 “The Most Creative People in Business”.

At the age of 23, Zainab Salbi founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization dedicated to serving women survivors of wars by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency. Under her leadership as the organization’s CEO (1993-2011), the organization grew from helping 30 women upon its inception to more than 400,000 women in 8 conflict areas. It also distributed more than $100 million in direct aid and microcredit loans that impacted more than 1.7 million family members.

Salbi is also the host and creator of several TV shows including #MeToo, Now What on PBS (2018), The Zainab Salbi Project, original series on Huffington Post(2016) and The Nidaa Show with TLC Arabic where she started with the historic first interview of Oprah Winfrey in the Arab world.

Salbi is also the author of the national bestseller Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (with Laurie Becklund). Salbi has also authored The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope and If You Knew Me, You Would Care. Her books received support from iconic women writers such as Alice Walker and several celebrities including but not limited to Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep, and Annie Lennox.

Salbi currently serves as Editor-at-Large at Women in the World Media, which is a news platform in collaboration with the New York Times and is hosted on the NYT website. It consists of vivid journalistic narratives, stirring videos, and provocative discussions and is a premier showcase for women of impact—and for the men who champion them.

In 2010, President Clinton nominated Salbi as one of the 21st-century heroes as featured by Harper’s Bazaar. Newsweek and The Guardian identified her in the Top 100 list of Most Influential Women (2011). The Economist Intelligent Unite named Salbi as one of most inspirational women (2011) and she was identified by Fast Company in the 100 most influential women list (2012), and by PBS Makers series as one of the women who make America. Most recently, Salbi was identified by Fortune Magazine as one of the Most Influential Women on Twitter (2014) and by Wear Your Voice as one of the Most Influential Women on Social Media (2015).

Salbi has received extensive coverage in US, UK, and global media from CNN to The New York Times, Financial Times, The Independent, and, among many others, most notably appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show 10 times. Salbi was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007 and Clinton Global Initiative Lead by President Clinton in 2010.

Salbi is known for bringing international women’s issues to mainstream attention in the US, making philanthropy accessible to women at the grassroots level, and pioneering microcredit programs to post-conflict areas. Salbi’s mission had always been to build programs that combine access to knowledge with access to resources to lead to lasting change in women’s lives.

FREEDOM IS AN INSIDE JOB: OWNING OUR DARKNESS AND OUR LIGHT TO HEAL OURSELVES AND THE WORLD:

In Freedom Is an Inside Job, Zainab Salbi explores her own riveting journey to wholeness—and how embarking on such a journey enables each of us to create the world we want to live in. After years of working as a successful CEO and change-maker, Salbi realized that if she wanted to confront and heal the shadows of the world, she needed to face her own shadows first—and this could only be done by looking within. Through personal anecdotes, real-life stories, parables, and insightful guidance, Salbi takes us through a process of self-discovery. We learn to uncover our hidden motives and desires so we can live in alignment with our authentic values. “As long as we are conflicted within, we will continue to live in conflict without,” writes Salbi. “If we want to change the world, we must begin with ourselves.”

 

The Other Side of War

Ms. Salbi passionately engages audiences with her personal experience as a survivor of war and her dedication to rebuilding communities after war, one woman at a time.

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