Sahar Hussein al-Haideri (Arabic: سحر حسين الحيدري, July 15, 1962 – June 7, 2007) was an Iraqi female print and radio journalist.
A number of international news training programs were set up by media agencies throughout Iraq, including the IWPR, the Reuters Foundation and others.
[1] She also wrote for local Iraqi press, including the Aswat al-Iraq news agency, known in English as the Voices of Iraq,[1] a Mosul-based newspaper.
[1] However, she was most critical of Islamic extremists who sought to use the war as an excuse to turn her adopted city of Mosul into a fundamentalist "emirate"[1] in northern Iraq.
She wrote pieces concerning Islamic fundamentalist decrees that cucumbers and tomatoes must be served on separate plates because they are supposedly of different genders and that female store mannequins must have their heads covered.
[1] At one point, an Iraqi extremist group linked to al Qaeda placed Al-Haideri at number four on a hit list of so-called infidels.
[4] Her article Arabic: القتل غسلا للعار يثير مخاوف تفجر صراع عراقي جديد, "Honour Killing Sparks Fears of New Iraqi Conflict" was specifically cited by the judges.