Rukaia Al-abadi

Rukaia Al-abadi (born 1988) is a Syrian investigative journalist and photojournalist.

Biography Al-abadi was born in 1988.

Al-abadi began her career in Syria, documenting human rights violations faced by women during the Syrian Civil War. She worked covertly in Deir ez-Zor, an area under the control of ISIS, able to work undercover whilst wearing a niqab and from internet cafes.

In 2014, Al-abadi was arrested and imprisoned for 3 months due to her journalistic work.

In 2022, Al-abadi was co-awarded a Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press, for the investigation “The Mahdi Scouts: A chronicle of child recruitment into Iranian militias” which was cowritten with Lebanese journalist Fatima Al-Othman. Her work has also been shortlisted by the Fetisov Journalism Awards and the Climate School and Greenpeace Award for Climate Justice. She works with the Syrian Female Journalists Network as a mentor on the "Empowering a New Generation of Female Journalists" project.