Al-Sakkaf was the first recipient of the Gebran Tueni Award in 2006, given by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers and An-Nahar Newspaper in Beirut.[1] She received the Free Media Pioneers Award from the International Press Institute in Vienna on behalf of the Yemen Times in the same year.[16] In 2013, she received the Oslo Business for Peace Award, an award chosen by winners of the Nobel Prizes in Economics and Peace and given to leaders in the private sector who have "demonstrated transformative and positive change through ethical business practices."[10][4][17] She was recognised by the BBC as one of "100 women who changed the world" in 2013.[14][18] She was also chosen by the World Economic Forum as one of 2015 distinguished Young Global Leaders.[19]