Nubian-Egyptian journalist, Hoda Zakaria, has won the Arab Journalism award, granted by UAE’s Dubai Press Club, in the humanitarian journalism category.
The prize was won for an investigative story about human trafficking of Nigerian women to Europe and the Middle East, where she published in Youm 7 Egyptian news website.
This is not the first award in Zakaria’s career. The Nubian lady had previously won this award in 2016, in the investigative reporting category. She had also won in 2013 several awards with the Jordon-based Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).
The award-winning journalist has also clinched several awards from the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate, International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Egyptian-Danish Dialogue Institute and Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom.
Zakria studied journalism in Cairo University, and graduated in 2010.
She has worked for Youm7 for years in different departments until she settled in the investigations unit.
