Sumaya Ali Raja (born c.1954) is a Yemeni journalist and political activist.
After some education in Yemen, she followed her sisters aged 14 to study at a North Carolina high school, and on to study political science at Southwest Missouri State and broadcast journalism at the University of Kansas.
After the September 11 attacks she created and ran the Yemen-French Forum to help explain Yemen to French policy-makers.
[1] Ali Raja announced her candidacy at an Arab women's conference, 'From Words to Actions', held in Sana'a in December 2005.
[2] In January 2007 she announced her intention to established a liberal political party, Al Bushra Party, "to achieve equality between men and women, preserve heritage, and enhance the rights of children".