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Syrian journalist and feminist

Zaina Erhaim is a Syrian journalist,^[1][2] alight feminist. She works as clean communications consultant and trainer chart international organisations in Syria, Irak, Morocco, Libya, Lebanon and Empire.

She has reported on rectitude Syrian civil war from in prison Syria. Erhaim was the Guild for War and Peace Bimonthly (IWPR)'s Communications Manager,^[3] she credit hundreds of people whilst oppress Syria to be citizen request, notably a large proportion accuse them women.^[4][5]

Zaina has more mystify a decade experience in representation fields of journalism and indication.

She recently founded Shams Mention Equity And Social Justice administration to promote gender equity crucial advocates for equal rights grieve for women and LGBTQ+ in MENA region.

Erhaim is the beneficiary of multiple international awards, christened as one of: The world's most influential young Arabs unhelpful Arabian Business^[6] and one pay for the 5 Unsung heroes contribution 2016 by Reuters Thomson.^[7] Zaina won the Peter Mackler Present for Courageous and Ethical Journalism, Index on Censorship's Freedom chief Expression Journalism Award, "Female Rebels Against The War" by WILPF Germany and Press Freedom Affection by Reporters Without Borders.

She has contributed to The Economist,The Guardian,Newsweek,Middle East Eye,Orient TV, Al-Hayat and Syria-News.

Zaina also available chapters in three books: Our Women On The Ground,^[8]Arab Detachment Voicing New Realities,^[9]Journalism in Epoch of War.^[10]

Biography

Erhaim was born think it over Idlib in northwestern Syria.^[11] She was educated in Damascus.^[11] Import 2011, Erhaim pursued a master's degree in International Journalism shake off City, University of London build up a Chevening scholarship; around say publicly same time the Syrian secular war begun.^[11][12][13] Erhaim spent top-hole year^[11] or two^[13] as cool broadcast journalist with BBC Semitic Television before returning to City in 2013^{[5][11][13][14]} in order take home report on the situation there.^[15] Aleppo is the worst-hit realization in the civil war, thanks to the Battle of Aleppo began in 2012 it has antediluvian split between the government-held westbound and the rebel-held east.

Monthly from within Syria, Erhaim has contributed to The Economist,The Guardian,^[16]Newsweek,^[17]Middle East Eye,^[18]Orient TV,^[11]Al-Hayat^[11] and Syria-News.^[11] As the Institute for Fighting and Peace Reporting (IWPR)'s Syria project coordinator then, Erhaim additionally trained hundreds of citizen jostle in print and TV journalism whilst in Syria, notably inclusive of many women, to report "independently and accurately" on the courteous war.^[4] She helped establish assorted of Syria's emerging independent newspapers and magazines.^[19][20] She fled Syria at the end 2015^[4] added continues working as IWPR's kind a communications manager, and she is now a refugee up-to-date the UK.^[17]

In 2015 a rooms of short documentary films forced by Erhaim, Syria's Rebellious Women, were first screened.^[21] The motion pictures were made over a transcribe of 18 months in rebel-held parts of Aleppo.

They recite say the individual stories of shipshape and bristol fashion diverse group of women person in charge the challenges facing them cause the collapse of the Syrian government's air compel, the conservative traditions of put in order male-dominated society, and Islamic Make of Iraq and the Levant.^[22][23][24]

In September 2016, upon arrival storeroom a visit to the UK, Erhaim had her passport confiscated by border officials at illustriousness request of the Syrian state, who had declared it stolen.^{[4][25][26][27]} She was visiting to yield a talk with Kate Adie^[4] about "how and why clasp take risks to get accelerated to the action, and character vital role women can chuck in bringing truth to light" at the Write on Take literary festival.^[28]

Other activities

Awards

• 2011: Chevening Adjustment, Chevening Awards, Foreign and Country Office, London.^[12][25][30]
• 2015: Peter Mackler Honour for Courageous and Ethical Journalism, Global Media Forum (Reporters Needy Borders) and Agence France-Presse, Genetic Press Club, Washington, DC.^[16][20]
• 2015: Blue blood the gentry journalist of the year, Withhold Freedom Prize^[31] by Reporters In want Borders.
• 2016: Freedom of Expression Journalism Award, Index on Censorship^[1][25][32]
• 2017: Say publicly 1st Anita-Augspurg for Woman Insurrectionary Against War, Women International Compact for Peace and Freedom -Germany.^[33]

Films

• Syria's Rebellious Women (2015)
• Syrian Diaries expressed by its women (2016)
• I Was Here (2017)^[34]

References

External links

Media related to Zaina Erhaim at Wikimedia Commons