Zainab Salbi

Season 1

About the Episode

Zainab Salbi on surviving rape, and finding her calling helping women survivors of war. Women for Women International, her nonprofit, is a grassroots humanitarian and development organization helping women brutalized by rape and war. Iraqi emigré, Zainab Salbi and her husband Amjad Atallah gave up their 1993 honeymoon to found the organization and aid survivors of the Yugoslav Wars.

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