Business among their 100 most influential Arabs for 2007 and 2008. In 2010, she won the North–South Prize alongside Mikhail Gorbachev. Personal life Dashti is from a Shi'ite Muslim family and has 23 siblings. Her father, Abdullah Ali Dashti, also served in the Kuwaiti parliament; her mother is Lebanese. Footnotes Further reading External links Center for Liberty in the Middle East 1964 births Kuwaiti women academics Kuwaiti women's rights activists Living people Kuwaiti Shia Muslims Members of the National Assembly (Kuwait) Women government ministers of Kuwait 21st-century women politicians Johns Hopkins University alumni Kuwaiti people of Iranian descent