Hala Al-Dosari
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Hala Al-Dosari (also written Hala Aldosari) is a Saudi women's rights activist, scholar and writer. Her academic work is in health services research, with a focus on the epidemiology of violence against women.[1] She held a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University from 2017 to 2018,[2] and in 2018 was awarded the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism by Human Rights Watch.[3]. [4][5][6]
Education and career
Al-Dosari trained as a biomedical scientist and worked as a lecturer in the health sciences and as a consultant to the Saudi Ministry of Health.[2] She earned a PhD in health services research from Old Dominion University, concentrating on the epidemiology of violence against women.[1]
She held a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 2015 and was a fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington from 2016 to 2017, followed by the Radcliffe Institute fellowship from 2017 to 2018.[1] In 2019 she joined the MIT Center for International Studies as the Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow, researching women's rights initiatives in Arab countries and working to establish an advocacy organisation for women's and human rights in Saudi Arabia.[1]
Her writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Guardian and Foreign Policy.[1]
Awards and recognition
- 2018: Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch.
- 2019: inaugural Jamal Khashoggi Fellow at The Washington Post.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 [https://
news.mit.edu/2019/saudi-scholar-activist-hala-aldosari-joins-mit-center-international-
studies-wilhelm-fellow-0503 "Hala Aldosari joins the MIT Center for International Studies as Wilhelm Fellow"]. MIT News. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help); line feed character in|url=at position 9 (help) - 1 2 "Hala Aldosari". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Hala Al-Dosari, Saudi Arabia". Human Rights Watch. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "Rights Activists Honored Alison Des Forges Award Winners From Saudi Arabia, Russia". Human Rights Watch. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ↑ "Fellow HalaAldosari". Radcliffe. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ↑ "Hala Aldosari joins the MIT Center for International Studies as Wilhelm Fellow". Michelle English. MIT News. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ↑ "Hala Al-Dosari selected as Washington Post's first Jamal Khashoggi Fellow". Gulf Centre for Human Rights. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2026.