Nadia al-Sakkaf is the editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times, the most widely read English-language newspaper in Yemen.
She was a speaker at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she spoke about the challenges of her job, especially as a woman, in the media and in the Arab world.
Al-Sakkaf became the chief editor of the newspaper in March 2005, and has become a leading voice in Yemen and global media on issues of media, gender, development and politics.
She said that her role at the paper was to "build bridges", both within Yemeni society, as well as between her country and the rest of the world.
Yemen has been embroiled in a leadership crisis for the past few months, with pro-democracy protesters demanding the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In the past, her
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