Challenging male dominance in the media
How can media be used as an active tool in the development of women’s rights and gender equality. Join us for a series of public debates and knowledge sharing events when seven women media professionals visit Denmark invited by IMS.
May 18-23 will seven well-respected female media professionals from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen and Iraq visit Denmark. The group includes a cartoonist, three editors-in-chief, a film festival director, a political journalist and a radio host.
The seven participants will take part in a media road trip across the country from Aarhus to Copenhagen, during which they will meet Danish media professionals, politicians and local people in the different cities that they visit.
The aim of the road trip is to create debate and challenge existing perceptions of women in the media.
The participants will contribute with new knowledge and progressive insight into how media can be used as an active tool in working for women’s rights and gender equality.
We invite people who are interested to a debate at the Women’s Museum of Denmark in Aarhus on Tuesday 19 May 2015 from 3.30pm – 5pm, or to participate in the public debate at the Danish newspaper Politiken Thursday 21 May 2015 from 4.30pm – 6pm. The moderator at Politiken is editor-in-chief Michael Jarlner.
Meet the participants
 Ala Latif (Iraqi-Kurdistan) is the editor of the first women’s magazine in Kurdish in Iraqi Kurdistan called Zhin. The magazine consist off an entirely female staff and writes about everything from female fighters to fashion. |  Amal Ramsis (Egypt) is an Egyptian filmmaker. She is the founder and the director of Cairo International Women’s Film Festival. She has received several international awards for her films, including “The Trace of the Butterfly”. |  Doaa El Adl (Egypt) is a cartoonist of the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm. She uses political satire and societal issues in her cartoons. In 2009 she received the award of journalism excellence in caricature in Egypt. |
 Nadine Nimri (Jordan) is a famous senior reporter at Al-Ghad Daily Arabic Newspaper in Jordan, with emphasis on social development, human rights, gender issues and children rights. She is an activist within several local organizations in the field of women and children rights. |  Hala Bejjani (Lebanon) is the founder of Kel Yom, a children’s newspaper in Beirut, and Planet News Business in Qatar. She is also co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar. |  Nafisa Al-Sabagh (Egypt) is the editor-in-chief of Masreiat women-oriented website. She has worked for several Egyptian media outlets, such as the Aldostor and Almasry Alyoum, in addition to having worked as a media expert and trainer with international NGOs. |
 Sara Al zawqari (Yemen) is a radio host at Radio Yemen Times, running one of the country’s most popular radio shows called Tea with Milk. The program is building bridges between people and communities in a time of crisis. |
