The short documentary, which was broadcast by the program “For the Story of the Rest” on 6/3/2023, monitored the suffering of female journalists during their work in several countries in the Arab region and the Middle East. On the other hand, the female journalists who appeared in the documentary expressed their determination to continue their work, believing in the great role they play. Along with their fellow journalists in revealing the truth.
The Palestinian journalist, Ghalia Hamad, talked about her and her children being forced to leave her home in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli bombing, and to stay in the field to cover the events of any bombing or aggression on the Strip, and she is satisfied with following the news to find out what happened to her family and home during the bombing.
According to Ghalia, the human sense and feelings of motherhood among female journalists add another character to any press coverage that they do.
The matter is not much different for journalist Na'em Khaled, who persevered in field journalistic work in Yemen, covering many details of the internal war her country is going through, and did not withdraw despite the withdrawal of most of her colleagues who succumbed to society's pressure and rejection of women's work as journalists.
As for the British journalist Lindy Hilsum, who covered many of the region’s wars in Syria and Libya, she confirms that women have proven more successful than her colleague, but she indicated that women journalists are warriors and are rarely allowed to reach leadership positions even in developed countries, where the situation of women journalists is better. Now from the Middle East.
Ghalia Hamad agreed with this opinion, which was confirmed by international reports. Even a report by a human rights journalist organization in Tunisia described the reality of the press there as "the scene is female and the decision is masculine."
As for the two Al-Jazeera correspondents in Palestine, Guevara Al-Badiri and Najwan Samreen, they talked about the pain caused by the martyrdom of their colleague Sherine Abu Aqleh about 10 months ago at the hands of the Israeli occupation soldiers, and how this matter affected the Palestinian journalists, their families and children who became afraid to watch TV screens for fear of hearing sad news about Journalists' relatives.
Although the Palestinian popular environment is very incubating and supportive of Palestinian women journalists, these journalists - as Guevara and Najwan explained - are aware of the danger they face during their field work, as the occupation soldiers and settlers consider them enemies, not journalists, and thus targeting their lives is not at all excluded.
Although the French journalist of Algerian origin, Nadia Alazzouni, lives in France, “the country of freedom,” this did not prevent her from being a journalist, as she had previously received a death threat letter from unknown persons because of her veil and her defense of minority issues in France, and although she reported Security authorities in France, but security did not move a finger and dealt with the threat as not serious.
Somali journalist Aisha Ahmed Pasha talked about her suffering in her country, which is still politically and security fragile, about the marginalization of women and the abuse of their rights, including women journalists.
This comes at a time when figures from international press organizations warn of the high number of deaths among journalists in the world, and targeting them directly to prevent them from continuing to reveal the truth.
In this context, the guests of "The Story Remains" talked about the pain they feel as a result of not revealing the perpetrator in most cases of killing journalists, including the case of the assassination of Sherine Abu Aqleh, which left a deep wound in the hearts of her colleagues and followers.