Naomi Sakr

Naomi Sakr is a British professor, author and public speaker. Her background is as a journalist, editor and country analyst with ''The Economist''. After earning a PhD from the University of Westminster in 1999, she became a Senior Lecturer there in 2004, and then a Reader in Communication in the School of Media, Arts and Design at Westminster in 2006. She became Director for the Communication and Media Research Institute's Arab Media Centre in 2007 and Professor of Media Policy at Westminster in 2009. Sakr has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is married and has four children. Provided by Wikipedia