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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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She speaks three languages fluently, Swahili, English, and French, among many other local languages. I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. Well, I'm looking at the picture of one them, Honorata, who is one of my best teachers in this world and a hero for me.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

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In 2013, he publically confronted Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Zarif, in New York demanding the release of political prisoner Majid Tavakoli. He also noted: "One big challenge will be multiple languages. And we'll expand to Chinese and Farsi next and other languages after that."

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