Associate Fellow

Shaima Bin Othman joined the Yemen Policy Center in 2019. Her research focuses on issues related to peacebuilding, women’s political participation, and arts.

Shaima is co-founder and CEO of Madarat Cultural Organization (formerly known as Meemz Arts Initiative), which focuses on the arts as a method for social change and peacebuilding. In addition, she is a MEPI TLG Scholar and has a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut. In her MA thesis, she focused on women’s political participation in pre- and post-unification Yemen.

She is an alumnus of the SI Leader Lab and the Women in Conflict 1325 Fellowship Programme and holds a B.A. in English Literature from Hadhramaut University. She is currently based in Saudi Arabia.