Farea Al-Muslimi ( ar, فارع المسلمي) is a
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
i writer and activist.
Education
He holds a bachelor's degree in public policy from
American University of Beirut.
Career
He delivered a speech before members of the U.S. Congress against which strikes U.S. drone in
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
and highlighted the price paid by innocent civilians in Yemen because of those attacks. He wrote an editorial on the situation.
Foreign Policy magazine
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included him in its annual list of the 100 most preeminent global thinkers in 2013.
He was the second-youngest person in the world on the list (older than
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai ( ur, , , pronunciation: ; born 12 July 1997), is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Awarded when she was 17, she is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and the second P ...
).
He was the first Yemeni to deliver a speech to the
U.S. Congress
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and the second Yemeni included in the list of
Foreign Policy, following
Tawakkol Karman
Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman ( ar, توكل عبد السلام خالد كرمان, Tawakkul 'Abd us-Salām Khalid Karmān; also romanized ''Tawakul'', ''Tawakel''; born 7 February 1979) is a Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician ...
who won the
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...
.
References
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Yemeni writers