For the past eight years, Mohammed Yahia has been working with Nature Research, part of Springer Nature, where he launched the English-language Nature Middle East regional portal. He now works with the editorial teams of all Nature Research publications in the Middle East and Africa, including Nature’s Arabic Edition and For Science, the Arabic version of Scientific American. As President of the World Federation of Science Journalists, Mohammed Yahia brings great experience in international projects. He was one of the organizers of the 2011 WCSJ in Doha, Qatar.