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Safa Abdulsalam Karman | |
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| Born | June 5, 1987 |
| Alma mater | Harvard Law School, Oxford University, Sana'a University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, analyst, and researcher |
Safa Abdulsalam Karman (born June 5, 1987) is a Yemeni investigative journalist, a political commentator, and a researcher on conflicts, supremacy and casteism. She earned her Master in Laws degree from Harvard Law School in May 2018, marking the first degree ever awarded by Harvard Law to a Yemeni citizen.
She received her degree in Master of Public Policy on November 3, 2018, from Oxford University.
In 2010, Safa joined Al Jazeera Media Network and became the first Yemeni woman to join the network and the youngest to be assigned top news coverage at the time. She is best known for her highly acclaimed investigative documentary "The Road to Sana’a" which examines who paved the way for the Houthi Militias to take over the Yemeni capital Sana'a on September 21, 2014. She is also known for her short series of reports "Yemen, the Land and the People”, her coverage of Egypt's 2012 presidential elections, and her reporting on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, especially Yemen's 2011 revolution. Safa is a co-founder and board member of "Be Human Initiative", the first Yemeni NGO to organize awareness campaigns for war and conflict-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 2007, Safa was elected vice president of the Legal and Constitutional Committee of the Youth Shura [Consultation] Council which was founded as a civil society body in parallel to the government's Supreme Shura Council to assist the latter with legal issues concerning the Youth. During her undergraduate studies, Safa worked as an English teacher for two years at one of Yemen's most prestigious English Institutes, Exceed Language Center. She earned her bachelor's degree in Law and Sharia from Sana'a University in Yemen in 2009.