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About Zainab Salbi

ZAINAB SALBI is a humanitarian, media personality and the author of Between Two Worlds (Avery, 2006) and her new book, Freedom Is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World (Sounds True, October, 2018). Zainab been featured on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Oprah, People, The Guardian, HuffPost, and more. Visit zainabsalbi.com.

The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty: Tragedy, Humanity…and Lipstick

By Zainab Salbi

Composite of photographs of small desk and lipstick by Alex Lopez and Darren Nunis

How women of a war-torn land—and lipstick— helped a feminist reclaim the beautiful pieces of herself — I did not grow up thinking I was beautiful. My Iraqi mother had fed this belief, telling me that my cousin Nadia was much better looking than I … [Read more...]

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