Becklund, Laurie

A native of Iraq who arrived in the United States at the age of twenty, Zainab Salbi is the founder and president of Women for Women International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing women of war and civil unrest with the resources to become self-sufficient citizens and promote peace.
Laurie Becklund is an award-winning Los Angeles journalist and author. This is her third collaboration. A former "Los Angeles Times, /I> reporter, she wrote the first story about Salbi in 1991, when Salbi was a young woman stranded in America by the Gulf War.