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.
Few studies on female TV journalists in the Middle East have been conducted. Neither have Bourdieu's theoretical concepts been used to analyse women journalists' experiences of their professional practice and their strategies for navigating a male-dominated media world in the Middle East. For this unique study, ten Kurdish women journalists that work for six different TV stations in Iraqi Kurdiā¦