Lamees Dhaif

Ms. Lamees Dhaif
Writer,

Ms. Dhaif is a Bahraini journalist, active in the Bahraini resistance campaign.

She has written in various newspapers in the Persian Gulf region, but as an oppositionist, she has been banned from writing since the beginning of the revolution in Bahrain.

She is also a human rights activist and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bahraini Journalists Association for three consecutive rounds.

She gained wide recognition after she presented a program discussing taboo issues such as poverty, sadism, prostitution, corruption, and inequality, on Al-Rai, a private Kuwaiti television channel.

Ms. Dhaif has won several awards including: Best Investigative Report in 2004, the Excellence Award in Journalism in 2008 and was honored as best writer by the Women's Union in the International Women's Day in 2009.

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Testimonials

H.E. Dr. Jihad Azour

Just to tell how impressed I was by the sixth annual session of NAWF. It was indeed an extremely interesting conference with excellent discussions. The quality of topics and speakers made this event very successful and contributed to enrich the debate on women's issues in the Middle East.
Mrs. Rana Ghandour Salhab

The group of presenters and panelists this year was very good, and I found the event successful and on topic. I commend you and your team for selecting such an excellent array of women and men leaders from across the region who shared their experiences and their views on the opportunities and challenges for women entrepreneurs in the Arab region. I wish you the best in future events.
Ms. Nadereh Chamlou

Thank you so much for inviting me to join you in this conference. I thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt a great deal.
Ms. Tania Moussallem

The efforts you invested resulted in a great, well organized conference with interesting and inspiring panels and speakers.
Ms. May Habib

Mabrouk on a wonderful conference. We found it inspiring and very useful as a networking event. Your team was friendly and high professional - thank you.
Aurelien LECHEVALLIER

Thank you very much, and bravo for this lovely 5th edition of NAWF! All of us highly appreciate that the event was very well organized, the exchanges (sometimes quite lively!) as well as the quality of the speakers.