Dina al-Shibeeb

Dina al-Shibeeb

Dina al-Shibeeb is a former senior journalist at Al Arabiya English. She specializes in political affairs coverage on Iraq and Syria and is a former business reporter. She also writes different topics including lifestyle, features and offbeat picks. Dina’s twitter handle is @EpicofIraq.

Saudi lawyer’s ‘know your rights’ app for women gets 50,000 subscribers

A Saudi corporate lawyer launched her self-funded, free app ‘Know Your Rights’ after discovering that women do not know their ‘basic rights’...

Saudi behind rare ancient rock art show: ‘Our heritage honored woman’

A photographer passionate in documenting prehistoric images in Saudi Arabia says ‘women figures were dominant’...

Baghdad woman on bicycle: Iraqis need to get used to it

‘My ambition is not just riding a bicycle… riding a bicycle was a symbol to break the status quo of Iraqi society,’ Marina Jaber said...

Arab MP behind Adhan in Knesset speaks out

Israeli Arab MP Taleb Abu Arar recited the Islamic call of prayer or Adhan to protest against a proposed law that aims to ban it...

Canada’s 1st hijabi anchor hopes to change stereotype

Ginella Massa says she is ‘lucky’ that she had ‘people in the industry who took the risk to put me on air’...

Iraqi sheikh: ISIS suspects families placed in ‘camps’ in Anbar

Reports emerged that homes of ISIS suspects families were destroyed, but a sheikh and Anbar’s head of police dismiss the claims...

Women in Riyadh feel more at ease without niqab

Women in Riyadh, considered conservative in comparison to other areas in the kingdom, no longer feel obliged to cover their faces...

US Arab Sanders supporters: Some edge toward Clinton, others loath her

Sanders was hugely popular among Arab Americans especially in Michigan’s Dearborn city, which has the highest concentration of Arabs in the US...