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Zainab Salbi



Zainab Salbi is an Iraqi women’s rights activist, social entrepreneur, writer, public speaker, and media personality. She founded Women for Women International, which is dedicated to helping women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives and communities, and has produced and hosted documentary-style series for PBS, Yahoo News, and HuffPost.

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How People Find Hope in the Midst of War | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

In the video above, Zainab explains how communities learn to operate in such chaotic conditions and even find, in their own way, forms of resistance.

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Zainab Salbi
2015
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If You Knew Me You Would Care

If You Knew Me You Would Care represents a journey taken to find women who have survived wars, violence, and poverty in order to collect their stories. The stories go beyond tears and victimhood and reveal joy, love, and forgiveness.

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Zainab Salbi
2013
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Zainab Salbi: Women, Wartime and the Dream of Peace

In war we often see only the frontline stories of soldiers and combat. AT TEDGlobal 2010, Zainab Salbi tells powerful "backline" stories of women who keep everyday life going during conflicts, and calls for women to have a place at the negotiating table once fighting is over.

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Zainab Salbi
2010
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen we lead with anger, we risk becoming the very thing we despise.

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Zainab Salbi on How to Give Fully Without Sacrificing Yourself | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

For decades, Zainab Salbi has connected and inspired women who persist in war-torn regions around the world. She has acted as a powerful voice for reaching and uniting women through a shared perspective.

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Rumi
2015
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Freedom Is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World

How can we transform our collective fear and the deep divisions between us into meaningful change? In Freedom Is an Inside Job, bestselling author, humanitarian, and TV personality Zainab Salbi shares that to transform our outer world, we must turn towards our inner world.

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Zainab Salbi
2018
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Redefined - Lisa Ling

Acclaimed journalist, television host, and author Lisa Ling joins Zainab to talk about the timely and personal significance of her latest show, Take Out, fighting back against bigotry and bias by teaching empathy and diverse history to the next generation, and what a recent psychedelic experience...

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Redefined with Zainab Salbi
2022
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe can see our full selves only when we acknowledge both the light and the shadow within us.

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Zainab Salbi - The Power of Surrender and Realizing True Purpose

Always attached to the outcomes and results? This can lead to chronic disappointment. Zainab Salbi brings a practice in letting go of control to experience beauty, community, and purpose.

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Zainab Salbi
2018
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The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope

Zainab Salbi’s media profile soared with her first book, Between Two Worlds, a memoir of growing up in Saddam Hussein’s inner circle.

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Zainab Salbi
2006
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