Ashwaq Moharram (Arabic: أشواق محرم; born 1974 or 1975 (age 49–50))[1] is a Yemeni physician and activist, noted for her work dealing with starvation in the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah.
By late 2016, she lived alone in the Houthi-controlled city of Al Hudaydah, as she gave her husband the funds to take their children to Jordan.
[3] Moharram has said of her work: "I'm seeing the same thing I used to watch on TV when the famine unfolded in Somalia.
[6] Moharram has spoken to news media about the need for humanitarian aid in Yemen.
[6][7] In 2016, after working as a doctor for twenty years, she was named one of the BBC 100 Women for her achievements.