Pascale Müller is a freelance journalist writing at the intersection of MENA politics, political Islam, women's rights and terrorism. She is currently enrolled in the Masters programme “Media, Journalism and Globalisation” and specialises in war and conflict at Swansea University in September 2014. In 2013 she received the CrossCulture scholarship of the German Institute for Foreign Affairs (ifa) and worked as a reporter for the Jordan Times in Amman. Pascale teaches journalism students in narrative journalism and gives workshops about terror organisations in the MENA. Since 2013 she is a member of the European Youth Press' MENA committee, enhancing the dialogue between young media makers from Europe and the MENA region.
The emergence and success of digital media startups seems to open a new golden era for journalism, and yet women are hardly at the forefront of the digital revolution, as this remains a male-dominated field.
In between the headlines on deaths and the fighting between Assad and the rebels, readers forget about the lives of those caught in the Syrian conflict, women’s lives in particular. The Syrian Female Journalist Network aims to bring stories to media attention by training male and female journalists in the region.
Egyptian online radio station Banat We Bas (For Girls Only), is the first station in the Arab world dedicated to women’s rights. Its young founder, Amani Eltunsi, has been attacked and imprisoned under both Mubarak and Morsi, but unlike them, she is still standing.