Afrah Nasser is a multi award-winning journalist and blogger from Yemen, currently living in forced exile in Sweden. In 2017, Afrah won the Committee to Protect Journalists’ International Press Freedom Award. She has been named by BBC as one of the "100 Women Who Have Changed the World," and has been featured three times as one of the 100 Most Influential Arabs by Arabian Business Magazine. Afrah’s blog, created during Yemen's 2011 Arab Spring uprising, has won her the recognition of CNN and Al-Monitor as one of the most influential blogs in the Middle East. Afrah is currently the primary researcher on Yemen at Human Rights Watch.