Syria's Women Journalists w/ Rula Asad (E29)

This is a conversation with Rula Asad, the co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Female Journalists Network (SFJN).  She is a freelance journalist and reporter covering women and human rights. She also reports on the issues faced by the Syrian Civil Society in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, in addition to being an experienced researcher and trainer focusing on women’s rights, gender equality in the media as well development in the MENA region. I wanted to have this conversation with Rula to discuss some of the challenges around the difficult topic of gender and representation in the context of Syria and of Syrian women within the journalism field more specifically.