The Arab region and the world witnessed many milestones in 2019, including the isolation of the Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, the death of the Tunisian President, Baji Kaid Essebsi, the isolation of the Algerian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and the revolt of two popular revolutions in Iraq and Lebanon, in addition to the recognition of the administration of the American President, Donald Trump, the legitimacy of the settlements, and its recognition of Israel's sovereignty of the Syrian Golan Heights. Other notable events include the dispute over the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the measures to isolate Trump, the yellow jacket demonstrations in France, and others in Hong Kong for several months now, the Turkish attack on northern Syria, and the holding of new elections in Britain that brought Boris Johnson, a pro-British exit From the European Union, for prime minister, and other events.

Man may have difficulty finding some positive events between endless reports of war, terrorist attacks, aircraft crashes, climate problems, floods and hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and other horrific events.

Since these events greatly affect the reality and the future of the Arab region, we will try in this file, which runs through several episodes, to shed light on the most important of them, in order to document and benefit from the lessons.

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They have been able to change many walks in different parts of the world

19 women changed the face of the global press in 2019

The International Women’s Media Foundation published a report marking the end of 2019 on the impact of media women during the past year, in which it said that while “a third of the workers in the field of journalism have left the profession in recent years because of the harassment and attacks that journalists receive, women journalists have managed to change many aspects of "Throughout the world, they published reports that revealed facts and influenced an environment." The Foundation published a report on 19 journalists, as part of a project led by the organization that included 200 journalists, who presented journalistic works that won an award and financial support from the organization, confirming its intention to continue this role in 2020 to push more women journalists to open new battles.

1 - 2 Anna Rodriguez and her colleague, Alomar Nuens: advocated the positive health of Latin American women

Journalist Anna Rodriguez and her colleague Alomar Nuens took an interest in the issue of reproductive health in Latin America. Although stories of this nature appear to be overburdened in the tedious scientific and medical details, the two journalists referred to gave these stories a personal and human flavor. "The future of journalism depends on trust and cohesion in the societies we write about, preserving the humanity of its causes, and explaining our scientific facts in an innovative way," Noyens says. The duo Rodriguez and Newens won the 2019 Garcia Interactive Journalism Award for a topic you wrote on the same issue.

3- Tara Gatty Wood: Her case is to defend the indigenous peoples of America

Journalist Tara Gatty Wood dug her place in Her Majesty's court by adopting the cause of the indigenous peoples of America, to whom she belongs. She produced and worked as a broadcaster for the radio program "The Native Americans 'Call", and the program focused on highlighting aspects of these peoples' cultural, political and health lives, and won the 2019 award. Wood is not only interested in publishing news and broadcasting reports, but rather seeks to develop her indigenous community by training the women of this community to Tell their stories themselves. "What the press does in our indigenous communities is a natural part of our culture. We in these societies naturally care about collecting stories, and modern technology has helped us do that," says Wood.

4-5 Erica Schultz and Corin Chen: Dive into the world of immigrants

Erica Schultz and Koren Chen specialize in exposing the worlds of immigrants, legal and illegal, and returning to their worlds, backgrounds and motivations for immigration, and the two journalists are interested in linking the present picture with their near and far backgrounds.

The investigation, published by The Schultz and Chen in the "Seattle Times" entitled "Beyond the Borders," caught the attention of American public opinion, and linked the investigation between the homeland of immigrants and asylum seekers in Mexico, Central America and Washington, where the end station. "The press must be inclusive, look at our societies fairly, and monitor the different dimensions of these societies," said Corine.

6- 7 Sarah Qenawi and Aqila Aladdin: Shedding light on Trump victims of asylum seekers

The two journalists, Sarah Qenawy and Aqila Aladdin, considered that the asylum seekers who were immigrants inside the United States who were targeted by US President Donald Trump, and considered them illegal, and set up detention centers for them, deserve the media adoption of their cause inside and outside America. The illustrated report published by Kenawi and Alauddin, and with the help of editors from "Borderless" magazine, the latter published jointly with "Chicago Raiders", succeeded in telling the tragedy of 6 asylum seekers in detention centers set up by Trump to this effect, and their suffering from separation between them and their families and their children. .

8- Allen Joe: Secret Economy and Rosewood Smuggling

Freelancer freelance journalist Allen Joe left our relatively safe worlds and decided to dive into the illegal world of economics, where the global black market, which was not limited to drugs, arms trading and the like, but found its way into a seemingly simple world, which is the smuggling of rosewood that He makes furniture and musical instruments.

Aline Jo, who does not work in a well-known media organization and does not increase its windows on websites and Internet broadcasts, managed to surround herself with a circle of followers, and was able to jump in this limited circle to the circle of one and a half million followers, after she published a report on smuggling wood in Guatemala In the "National Geographic" scientific journal, discreet and highly reputable, and to create an atmosphere for itself a distinguished place in the world of journalism, especially since the story has exceeded the impact of the circle of environmental debate to political and economic clashes. In the future, Joe says, journalism will become "more diverse and representative of society, and more responsible."

9 - Shula Lual: The Voice of Africa is Coming

Nigerian journalist Shola Lual, 26, sees herself as the expression of a new generation who will defend the causes of their African continent differently than before. Lawal defends her investigations and press reports on humanity, justice and women's rights in the brown continent, and her subjects continue such as the feminist movement in Nigeria, African immigrants to Europe via Libya, forest reserves in Ghana, or the political crisis in Togo within the framework of a single thread.

Lual is currently studying journalism at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop herself, working in the Boston Globe, but she does not leave the opportunity, and she writes journalistic investigations of immigrants from Central America to the United States to add new experiences in Context of her interest.

10-11 Karen Coates and Valera Nernatterers: Children's Voice in the Press

Two American journalists, Karen Coates and Valera Nernatz, defended the children and their causes, but in another field that did not care about the issues of settled children, specifically in what you call the secret American world, where child labor and their cruel treatment.

In an investigative journalist, Cotts and Nernatzdz revealed that there are 524,000 children working in the agricultural sector to support their families, who made us feed ". The investigation touched on the harsh working conditions that children are exposed to, and the long working hours in which they are laboring, given the existing labor laws failing to protect them.

The Cotts and Nernatzd Investigation cited a US government official commenting that "child labor is permissible in America at any age as long as it is done by parents or those who replace them," and it also commented to Human Rights Watch in which it said that "child labor laws in America "It is one of the worst laws in the world." Coates believes that this type of journalism is not only important for people and governments, but is important for children. ”They should realize early on how important this press is based on accurate news and facts, and honesty in the transmission of our democracy and our future, and the best way to communicate this is to expose children to this. Experience firsthand.

12- Yasmine Brown: The press is not recognizing the fait accompli

American journalist Jasmine Brown has a well-established belief that journalism has a distinct mission to unearth issues that appear to be impossible, because tackling regular and daily issues is a routine task a journalist can do as a mere daily duty, so all Brown's topics have been of this type. Finally, the American journalist drew attention in her distinguished investigative report on the expectation of the erosion or drowning of the "Marshall Islands" within 10 years, which was titled "Marshall Islands: A Nation on the Verge of Extinction", which was broadcast as a photo report on the "ABC" network , Where she went to the island between the American state of Hawaii and the continent of Australia, and met the citizens of the island, that is, Marshall, and stood on the tongue of its capital, Majuro, where 27 thousand people live, and the sea has reached its maximum, and scientific expectations say it will become extinct by 2030. Most of Brown's tired words, "I am tired of the phrase history, repeat itself, many." It does not seem to me a kind of justification, I see the opposite, and I see the press as a tool to break injustice and oppression ».

13-14 Jill Felonic and Nikola Sobeki: Our job is to tell women all the truth

Journalists Jill Vilonic and her colleague Nikola Sobeki are not recognized for having red lines in their work, and they assert that what distinguishes them is telling women, given that most of their investigations are about them, with all the details of the truth.

"The only obstacle that should occupy the journalist is the presence of a source who speaks," says Felonic and her colleague. "After this, he is entrusted with communicating the truth to his readers, whatever the repercussions." Felonic and Subicki covered the terrorist attack carried out by the Somali "Al-Shabab" movement in Nairobi on the West Gate Mall, on September 21, 2013, which actually lasted until September 24 of the same year, and was full of red lines that many Western newspapers refrained from approaching, Including that the American and Israeli forces participated in repelling the attack, and even before the Kenyan security forces, as it was established that the mall was accompanied by an Israeli and that there was an Israeli-Kenyan security agreement.

But this was an occasional chapter in the journalists ’march, as their primary concern was the suffering of women, as they published several investigations on sexual violations, abortion and reproductive health, and their most prominent investigation was“ What Drove Honduran Women Here ”, which relates to the migration of Honduras to America, and the investigation was published In the American "Politico" magazine.

15- Garen Imam: Women's Right to Equal Article Written in "Wikipedia"

It is an issue that seems to some small, but from the point of view of journalist Garin Imam is very large, and it deserves a journalist to empty her time, because Wikipedia is no longer a passing thing in our lives, it is only in English that it has about six million entries, not to mention copying it in 20 other international languages. Garen Imam feels wronged because women's inputs to the network do not exceed more than 17% of its content to date, and that this reflects complex facts of inequality between women and men, it also has the worst results. She leads the imam of the "Women Make the News" initiative aimed at striking a balance between women and men in the world of journalism, and calls on women journalists and women's societies to engage in it.