Maryam Al-Badr

Maryam Al-Badr Photo
Qatar

Student Scholar

2019-2020

Maryam Al-Badr is a junior at Northwestern University in Qatar studying journalism. In 2018, she launched a blog dedicated to reporting on psychology and its latest developments, which sparked her interest in mental health in the Arab region. She plans to complete a residency at SciDev in 2020 to gain further insight into how to report science to the general public.

Explore some of Maryam’s reporting during the fellowship year:

Topic

The mental state of Qatari women trying to balance the cultural expectation and modernization