'Our Women on the Ground' by Zahra Hankir - Book Review
Women On the Ground by Zahra Hankir is a series of essays by 19 female journalists based on their personal yet very similar experiences of covering war, bloodshed, terror, female oppression, and trauma that has become a norm in the Middle East for the last few decades. Zahra Hankir wrote in the introduction that ' A Sahafiya is twice burdened' and that is exactly why their stories need to be heard, especially with the rise of representation and the dangers of single narratives. Each essay is based on the individual's journey of how they started covering their assigned war-struck region - Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Sudan, Palestine, Egypt, Yemen, Libyan. Gaza, and Syria. Some were residents and forced to leave, while a few came for coverage and built homes in the regions after years of persistence and lost loved ones. All stories are simply heartbreaking and make us realize how blatantly Muslim Countries have been targeted by the West over the years, and how deep-rooted its impac
