Meet Our Professors: Rana Al-Sabbagh

Listen as Professor Rana Al-Sabbagh explains the intercultural and diverse make-up of the Natolin community!
Rana Al-Sabbagh is senior editor for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the Sarajevo-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). She is co-founder of the award-winning Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), an OCCRP member center.
As the former chief editor of The Jordan Times, Sabbagh became the first Arab woman in the history of the Levant to run a daily political Newspaper. She served in that role from 1999 to 2002, when the then-government premier ordered her sacking because of the paper’s pro-reform editorial stance. Prior to her work with the newspaper, she was a correspondent for Reuters International News Agency in Jordan and the Gulf from 1986 to 1997. She is MENA region representative on the board of directors of the Global Investigative Journalism Network since 2014.
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