Zainab al khawaja biography definition

Not to be confused with Zainab Khawla.

Zainab Abdulhadi al-Khawaja (Arabic: زينب عبد الهادي الخواجة; born 21 October 1983^[3][4]) is a Bahraini human rights activist, and a participant in the Bahraini uprising.^[5] She rose to prominence after posting tweetsonline about the protests under the name AngryArabiya^[6] as well as for protesting her father Abdulhadi al-Khawaja's detention during his hunger strike.^[7]

Background

Al-khawaja promotes the Bahraini protest movement internationally via her Twitter feed, written in English.^[8] As of February 2012, she had 33,500 followers.^[9]

She is married to Wafi Al-Majed, and they have a daughter named Jude and a son named Abdulhadi.

Her father is Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, former president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, and former director of the Middle East-North Africa region for the International Foundation for the Protection of Huma