Aleppo-based journalist Zaina Erhaim picked up the Peter
Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism in October last year, for
her fearless reporting on the civil war in her home country. Despite having a
safe job in the UK, Erhaim chose to return to Syria and document the harrowing
stories unfolding in the war-torn country.
Erhaim is the Syria project coordinator for the Institute
for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), an international organisation that supports
journalists in countries undergoing conflict, crisis or transition.
Over the last two years inside Syria, she has trained about
100 citizen reporters, approximately a third of them women, in print and TV
journalism, and has helped establish many of the new emerging independent
newspapers and magazines in the war torn country.
She works both in Arabic and English to teach and contribute
her own reporting to Arab and Western media, including the British magazine The
Economist as well as The Guardian newspaper. She also often speaks to other
media outlets as an on-the-ground journalist witness.
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