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  1. Shifting the Narrative
  2. 16 Days of Activism
  3. Meet Milia Eidmouni, Syria

Meet Milia Eidmouni, Syria

"I’m trying to do my best to promote justice through training journalists. In Syria, few journalists are educated in how to write about women’s issues. Covering the untold stories is how we contribute to justice."

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Meet Milia Eidmouni, Syria

Milia Eidmouni is a freelance journalist who left Damascus for Jordan in 2013 due to political pressure. Together with her colleague Rula Asad, she founded the Syrian Female Journalists Network. Milia's work promotes a better understanding of the role of Syrian women in the uprising and break the stereotypes surrounding female journalists in the region.

What is it like to be a woman journalist in Syria?

No one protects you. There’s no security or safety for citizen journalists who are covering the war. As a woman journalist, you can’t go to the frontlines because they will say, “Ah, you’re a woman, go with a man so he can protect you.”

How does your work as a journalist connect to promoting justice in Syria?

I’m trying to do my best to promote justice through training journalists. In Syria, few journalists are educated in how to write about women’s issues. Covering the untold stories is how we contribute to justice.

Can you tell me more about the Syrian Female Journalist Network?

The Network has three goals: to improve the capacity of journalists to write about gender justice and women’s rights; to raise public awareness through campaigns; and to create a journalistic code of conduct to break stereotypes of women in media.

What’s missing from the conversation around Syrian women?

Foreign media tries to portray Syrian women as one dimensional – she’s a victim, a mother of a detainee, a wife of a prisoner, a hostage in a hostile country waiting for humanitarian aid. But from Day One, women were part of the uprising. They took to the streets, they helped in the field hospitals, they created community centres to support each other in their local communities. Syrian women as refugees are also breaking stereotypes and changing the image of Syrian women. No one talks about the challenges they are facing [in Jordan] after four or five years of being a refugee.

How is citizen journalism shaping the way that the world sees the conflict in Syria?

During the revolution, so many citizens in Syria wrote and posted about what they were witnessing. Every citizen can contribute to justice through documentation, writing their testimonies, promoting peace and justice in their communities. Media plays a big role – they can change the minds and attitudes of the community.

LEARN MORE

Visit the Syrian Female Journalist Network website.

Meet the Group Enabling Syria's Female Journalists, News Deeply, 31 March 2016.

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16 Days of Activism

November 25, 2022

Afrah Nassar: "Believe that you are worth listening to."

November 25, 2022

Jamila Afghani: “We should extend hands of support to each other."

November 25, 2022

Mèaza Gidey Gebremedhin: “I always need to fight for myself, for my place in this world, and to help others.”

November 25, 2022

A Q&A with democracy activist Khin Ohmar: "I feel at peace knowing there is a young generation fighting for their rights."

November 25, 2022

Amira Osman Hamed: "Don't let them terrify you."

November 25, 2022

Lubna Alkanawati: "What's really helped me to survive is the women's network around me."

November 25, 2022

Nina Potarska, Anna Chernova and Oksana Senyk: "Family peace is a small piece of peacebuilding."

November 25, 2022

Nadia Murad: "We don't get anywhere by pacifying with politeness."

December 10, 2021

Manal Shqair: I’m always fighting every day for my existence as a woman (Palestine)

December 9, 2021

Ounaysa Arabi: Knowledge is power and we have a good inheritance from feminists around the world (Sudan)

December 9, 2021

Ilaf Nasreldin: We as women deserve to live a better life (Sudan)

December 8, 2021

Musu Diamond Kamara: When one woman is affronted, all of us are affronted (Liberia)

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