Zainab Salbi is one of the extraordinary examples of how passion coupled with hard-work can move mountains. Because of sheer will she transformed herself from a victim to an agent of positive change. She is an Iraqi American activist who founded an organization Women for Women to support female victims around the world. She is also an author of two books and has received the 2010 David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership, the Forbes Trailblazer, and Time Magazine's Innovator of the Month awards, among many other nominations. In a profile interview, Nadia Al-Sakkaf introduces Zainab Salbi as an example of a successful world leader. She is only 40 years old, but already she has more than 17 years' experience in development and is the CEO of a foundation which has distributed more than USD 79 million to more than 800,000 family members. Salbi started Women for Women when she was only 24 years old. The idea started when she read about the suffering of Bosnian women being gang-raped by Serbian soldiers as a part of an intimidating strategic military tactic as part of the Balkan War in 1993. Salbi was a victim of marital abuse herself. Although she was brought up in a modern educated Iraqi family close to Saddam Hussein's regime, her mother shipped her off to the US while she was in university to be married to a much older Iraqi man. While she was still a new bride, her husband became abusive and raped her. Later in life when she confronted her mother as to why she had married her off like that, her mother confessed that she wanted to protect her from Saddam Hussein who wanted her for himself. Zainab Salbi's mother was a strong influence in her life. She had brought her up to be the strong independent woman she is today. And because of her strong personality she...