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Naomi Sakr
British professor, author and public speaker
Naomi Sakr is a British professor, author and public speaker. Her background is as a journalist, editor and country analyst with The Economist.[1] After earning a PhD from the University of Westminster in 1999,[2] she became a Senior Lecturer there in 2004,[1] and then a Reader in Communication in the School of Media, Arts and Design at Westminster in 2006.[1][3] She became Director for the Communication and Media Research Institute's Arab Media Centre in 2007[1] and Professor of Media Policy at Westminster in 2009.[1] Sakr has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is married and has four children. [4]