Zainab Salbi

Zainab Salbi
زينب سلبي
Salbi at the Paley Center for Media in 2013
Born	1969 (age 54–55) Baghdad, Iraq
Citizenship	United States (since 1996)
Alma mater	George Mason University London School of Economics
Occupations	Author media host organization founder podcaster
Organizations	Daughters for Earth Women for Women International
Notable work	Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (2005 memoir) #MeToo, Now What? (2018 TV miniseries)
Board member of	Vital Voices International Refugee Assistance Program (IRAP) Synergos International"
Spouse	Amjad Atallah ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 2007)​
Website	www.zainabsalbi.com

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,^[1] 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 2023, Zainab Salbi was honored with the Time100 Impact Award.