Get To Know Zainab Salbi

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Get to know Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International, who narrated the story of Malala Yousafzai. In this interview, Salbi tells us how she escaped from the Saddam Hussein dictatorship and learned to use your voice and exercise her freedom of speech. She also tells us how she found the strength to tell her own story by gaining inspiration from women she worked with in war torn countries. And she tells us how she finds hope even in the darkest times and most challenging places. [This episode originally aired March 2021.]

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0:00.0	This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:09.0	Hi rebels, this is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:12.0	The interview. I'm your host Elaine. Hi rebels, this is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:13.0	The interview.
0:14.1	I'm your host, Alaya, and today we're talking
0:16.2	to Zayneep Salby, who read us the story of Malala Yousabzai.
0:20.5	It's a wonderful episode, so make sure you give it a listen if you haven't heard it yet. Zainab, can you introduce yourself?
0:33.2	I'm Zayne B Selby. I'm a humanitarian who founded Women for Women International, an organization
0:40.6	that helps women survivors of force. I'm also an author and a journalist who covers
0:46.5	women's stories from all over the world. You are clearly passionate about
0:50.9	helping women, especially women in conflict areas.
0:54.0	How did your own childhood impact your work?
0:57.0	Well, I grew up in a war zone.
1:00.0	I grew up in Iraq, and when I was a child child there was a war between Iraq and Iran.
1:05.9	So my childhood had a lot of bombs and shells and military planes and fear, fear of war, fear of a dictatorship that I grew up under, his name was
1:20.0	Saddam Hussein, and because we were afraid if we say the wrong thing he may
1:24.8	imprison us or kill us or kill our family members so I grew up seeing things that
1:31.0	were wrong seeing people unjustly treated, seeing people being put in
1:37.1	prison for no good reasons, seeing people executed just because they oppose
1:41.7	the president, but couldn't speak about it.
1:45.0	So when I came to America at the age of 19 or 20, I realized I had the freedom of speech.
1:52.0	I can speak and express my opinion without fear. So that
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