Educational Material
Arab Women Media Watch Centre in UK mourns the loss of the young producer and screenwriter Claire Naber wife Jordanian director Amin Matalqa, who lost her life while fight an incurable disease while she is in her mid-thirties. ‘We lost an... Read more
Educational Material
Call for Papers: The Impact of Arab Uprisings on Citizenship in the Arab World Conference Date: 12-14 November 2014 At University of Balamand /Lebanon Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The Arab uprisings that occurred in a number of Arab... Read more
Discrimination
Drop The A Word! By Sheikha Al Dosary Over the years, I have failed completely to erase the word “Abd” from my family’s dictionary, when talking about black or African people. It is such a frequently used term in Arab society in general and in... Read more
Educational Material
Position: Call for Applications Institution: The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) Country: Lebanon Deadline: Mar-09-14 Call for Applications: ‘’New Paradigms Factory’’ – Nationalism and Patriotism Fellowship Opportunities from... Read more
Journalism
Rut Gomez Sobrino Project Manager Communications and Information Sector UNESCO Amman Office I am glad to share with you the book ‘Elections Reporting in the Arab Region ‘ in which Arab journalists debate the challenges in... Read more
Discrimination
Examples of Arab women’s testimonies about participating in activism during the revolts in Egypt and Bahrain. This video is an example of women’s views about what is going on in their countries and how the authorities treated them... Read more
Opinion
I feel like I have been hit by a blind lorry of ink and my soul is hovering few inches above the ground. Arab Journalism and Reporting Women By Iqbal Tamimi I feel like I have been hit by a blind lorry of ink and my soul is hovering few... Read more
AWMWC Unidentified gunmen opened fire, using small arms (pistols) on on Sunday night, the 15th of December, on Iraqi female journalist Nawras Mohammad Hashim Al- Nuaimi, near her home in the Algiers neighbourhood of eastern Mosul. Bringing the... Read more
News
After a couple of days of organising a forum on Qatari women in media, and getting everything set and ready to participate in the Global Forum for Media and Gender, organized by UNESCO next week in Bangkok, Qatar fires the person behind all... Read more
Herstory
Report by Iqbal Tamimi Nabeela Masaad, a Yemeni woman who was married for three years to her husband Ahmad, had a lump in her sexual organs and experienced recurrent pains. One day her husband took her to hospital to be examined by Dr Ali... Read more