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Hiba Zayadin

Hiba Zayadin

Assistant Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division Follow @HZayadin

Hiba Zayadin is an Assistant Researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division, investigating human rights abuses in the UAE and Qatar. She previously worked as a Human Rights Watch Research Assistant, helping investigate human rights abuses in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and authoring a report on Jordan’s discriminatory nationality law and the treatment of non-citizen children of Jordanian women in the country.  Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Zayadin served four years as editor of the Middle East and North Africa desk at IFEX, a global network of organizations working to promote and defend freedom of expression as a fundamental human right. She holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcast and print journalism. 

Articles Authored

  • February 14, 2019 Dispatches

    An Emirati Woman’s Ordeal to Seek Protection from Abuse

  • November 14, 2018 Dispatches

    Hypocrisy of Dubai’s World Tolerance Summit

  • August 28, 2018 Commentary

    We Have Two Months to Save Israa al-Ghomgham's Life

    Published in Newsweek
  • July 2, 2018 Commentary

    What the car industry owes Saudi Arabia’s women-driving activists

    Published in Quartz
  • March 21, 2018 Commentary

    On Jordanian Mothers’ Day, Some Have Little to Celebrate

    Published in 7iber
  • September 6, 2017 Commentary

    Trump's Global Funding Cut Harms Women, Youth

    Published in The Hill

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