19 Facts About Safa Karman

Safa Abdulsalam Karman was born on June 5,1987 and is a Yemeni investigative journalist, a political commentator, and a researcher on conflicts, supremacy and casteism.

Safa Karman 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.

Safa Karman 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.

Safa Karman 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.

Safa Karman 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.

In 2007, Safa Karman 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.

Safa Karman earned her bachelor's degree in Law and Sharia from Sana'a University in Yemen in 2009.

Safa Karman was born in the Yemeni city Taiz on June 5,1987, but was mainly raised in the capital Sana'a.

Safa Karman is the youngest among ten children and comes from a very well-known political family.

Safa Karman's father is Abdulsalam Karman, a lawyer and a prominent politician, who once served and later resigned as Minister of Legal Affairs in Ali Abdullah Saleh's government.

Safa Karman's sister is Tawakkol Karman, the first Arab female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Safa Karman began her journey by volunteering with different NGOs and organizing social and political debates between Yemenis themselves and Yemenis with international visitors.

Safa Karman worked as an English teacher and supervisor for two years before leaving to join the Al Jazeera Network in Doha, Qatar.

Safa Karman is the co-founder and board member of "Be A Human Initiative", an NGO in Yemen that provide psychological treatment and support for war-zone civilians suffering from war and conflict-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

Safa Karman is the first Yemeni citizen to graduate from Harvard Law School and hold two master's degrees from both Harvard and Oxford Universities.

In 2009, Safa Karman got her undergraduate degree in Law and Sharia from Sana'a University in Yemen.

Safa Karman graduated from the Yemen-American Language Institute in 2005.

Safa Karman speaks Arabic as her native language and fluent English as well.