Sana Issa
Sana Issa was born in Beirut, Lebanon. When she was fifteen years old, her family married her to a man twenty years her senior; when she left her abusive husband, her family ostracised her. In 1982, Issa – a self-taught English speaker – began volunteering to guide aid workers and journalists visiting Beirut's refugee camps; this led to employment at Newsweek magazine's Beirut bureau and was the beginning of a twenty-five-year career in international journalism. In 1993, Issa moved to the United Kingdom, where she completed a master's degree at SOAS University of London. In 2016, Issa founded Agrabah Media.