Marina de Regt is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has been doing research in and about the Arab World, and Yemen in particular, for more than 30 years. During her anthropology studies at the University of Amsterdam she carried out ethnographic fieldwork among female carpet workers in Morocco. From 1991-1998 she worked in two bilateral development projects in Yemen, first with rural women in Rada’a District and later in an urban primary health care project in Hodeidah. Her PhD dissertation Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen (Syracuse University Press, 2007) was based on her own experiences and encounters with Yemeni women working in health care. In the past twenty years she has mainly done research about gender and migration, in particular between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, but she was also the principal investigator of a project about early marriages among Syrian refugees in Jordan. She published widely, both alone and in collaboration with others, and was involved in a number of documentary film projects based on her research projects. Marina is always looking for ways to increase the societal impact of her work, and in particular passionate about informing people about Yemen.