[1] Sakr has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is married and has four children.
[4] Awarding Sakr the Middle Eastern Studies Book Prize in 2004, BRISMES called Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East "the best book written on Arab television.
[6] Helga Towil-Souri of New York University remarked that Arab Television Today "casts a wider theoretical net" than Satellite Realms and included changes within that cultural medium during the 3rd millennium.
"[9] The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of San Francisco defined Women and Media in the Middle East, edited by Sakr, as a collection of interesting articles that relate the new and old styles of Middle Eastern media to women in that culture.
The review optimistically vests "great hope" for "positive change" from women whose empowerment is educated, developed, and organised.