Zaina Erhaim

Zaina Erhaim is an awards' winning Syrian journalist, named the journalist of the year by Reporters without Boarders in 2015, and among the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women by Arabian Business in 2016. Recently she received the first Annita Ausuburg Award for Rebel Woman Against the War, provided by Women International League for Peace and Freedom. Follow her @ZainaErhaim.

How international organisations can prioritise human rights

Until those working in the Global South introduce new rights measures, we are ‘testifying in a court where the opponent is the judge’

By Zaina Erhaim

/ 28 May 2021

How international organisations can prioritise human rights

‘Living in constant fear’: Life as a journalist in Syria

When Zaina became a journalist, her family said she was committing a ‘sin’. Fifteen years on, she opens up about the persecution she has faced in her career

By Zaina Erhaim

/ 29 Apr 2021

‘Living in constant fear’: Life as a journalist in Syria

Women activists in the Middle East face online bullying and sexual harassment

A growing wave of online bullying and sexual harassment is forcing many women and feminist activists to abandon the online public space.

By Zaina Erhaim

/ 9 Jul 2020

Women activists in the Middle East face online bullying and sexual harassment

The battle between Syrian secular activists and feminists: we all lose

Yet another pushback for Syrian women to leave the public spaces for the powerful men who behave as if these spaces are their ownership.

By Zaina Erhaim

/ 12 Dec 2017