The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman responded to the political ethics professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, Dr. Mohammed al-Mukhtar al-Shankiti, who criticized her call for a secular democratic state in Yemen.

The Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman headed to the United States to prepare her Master's and Ph.D.

The Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman described the thunderstorm that followed her writing about secularism was a broad and useful debate, calling for continued thinking loudly to escape the priesthood and authoritarianism under the name of religion.

Prague, Tawakkol Karman, the first Arab woman who has received the Peace Nobel Prize, will be one of the participants in the Forum 2000 conference called Democracy: In Need of a Critical Update?, scheduled for Prague on October 7-9, organiser Karel Prochazka told journalists on Monday.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman launched a scathing attack on activist Ayat Oraby calling her a terrorist and an agent of the Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.

Islamists of different cultural, political and sectarian spectrum will keep fight with each other until the last Muslim dies unless a democratic and secular state comes into existence, said Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman.

The Nobel Peace laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman said that a secular democracy is inevitably required to avoid sectarian fragmentation, regional and intercommunal fighting and all sub-national conflicts.