Nawal al-Maghafi

Award winning Reporter and Filmmaker Nawal Al-Maghafi has been reporting on the Middle East since 2012. Over the past six years, she has been one of the few journalists conducting firsthand reporting of the ongoing conflict in Yemen; travelling extensively throughout the country. Her investigation into a 2015 attack on a Yemeni funeral — the deadliest of the conflict so far — provided key evidence in the case against weapons sales to Saudi Arabia by the US and UK. Her most recent documentary, Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade won two Emmy’s last year, the film investigates Shia clerics at some of Iraq’s holiest shrines, Nawal reveals the...