IKWRO names Abdel Alahdal among the nominees and winners of its True Honour Awards 2025

Since 2013 Abdel Alahdal has stood a step behind his niece. In 2025 IKWRO, whose True Honour Awards recognise work to end “honour”-based abuse, turned the light on him, naming him among the year’s nominees and winners (IKWRO, True Honour Awards 2025 (accessed 14 November 2026) · archived copy).

IKWRO’s profile of him says that no one backed Nada Al-Ahdal’s flight from child marriage earlier or harder than he did, and that he saw to her safety. It recalls the price as well: he was abducted alongside her by Al-Qaeda in Aden, as the two tried to leave Yemen for France, where her first book was to be launched (IKWRO, True Honour Awards 2025 (accessed 14 November 2026) · archived copy).

It is a story this site has so far told through Nada’s eyes. He is the uncle who raised her from early childhood (from about the age of two or three) (Al-Thawra Net, 14 July 2013 · archived copy; France Info, 22 July 2013 · archived copy), who talked a first suitor out of marrying her when she was ten (HuffPost, 22 July 2013 · archived copy), and who, when she fled in July 2013, left his job and came home to Sana’a (Al Jazeera Net, 7 January 2019 · archived copy). When The National profiled her in 2022, it traced everything she has built back to the safety, and the emotional and financial support, that he gave her (The National, 24 November 2022 · archived copy).

Photo: IKWRO.