The article reports on the Filastiniyat Women Journalists' Club in Gaza which offer activities that facilitate the discussion of differing viewpoints, and support the public sphere participation of women and the youth in 2014.
The author considers the stereotypes surrounding Arab women journalists. She believes that Arab women were poorly served and manifested in Arab mass media. She mentions factors that helped Arab women journalists to enhance their career in the field of media professionalism. She looks at the catalysts for increasing women's participation.
Beginning with the so-called 'turban issue' in universities in the 1980s, public discussion about women in the public sphere in Turkey has arisen due to the veiled women's demand for a presence in public life. Since the banning of the veil in public life, Islamist columnists have been in a struggle against Kemalists to make the veil public, though there are different views on the limits of ve…