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« Medfeminiswiya » is a feminist network that brings together women journalists working in the media and content production fields across the Mediterranean region.
By fostering a culture that embraces both diversity and solidarity among Mediterranean women journalists, our network will strive to amplify their voices and empower them to produce their own content, primarily through the « Medfeminiswiya » online platform, while encouraging them to come together, support each other and organize collectively through regular group discussions, face to face meetings and feminist conferences.
Journalist Rouba al-Ajrami walks with a cameraman through the rubble – Social media
Med is for Mediterranean and Media - feminiswiya is for Feminist in French and English, combined with niswiya for Feminist in Arabic.
Our mission & vision
As Medfeminiswiya members, we commit our media efforts to dismantling dominant patriarchal narratives in the public sphere and to offering Arabophone, Francophone and Anglophone users from the region a global view of feminist-interest stories and a different vision for what credible and thought-provoking content could mean. With the multilingual content we provide, we attempt to reduce the information gap and strengthen human bonds and connections between the different Mediterranean subregions. We will achieve this by:
a) Keeping the public from Mediterranean subregions informed about and engaged in events that affect women in other subregions as well as their own;
b) Improving the visibility and appreciation of women’s productions and labor across the region;
c) Highlighting the stories, common struggles, challenges and achievements of women and girls in the Mediterranean region;
d) Covering the actions of feminist movements and reviving constructive debates among feminists.
By prioritizing initiatives that challenge oppressive practices and highlight feminist actions and movements, we hope to inspire women journalists to collaborate and produce as much content as possible across the Mediterranean. This media project would never have become a reality without the unwavering support provided by the Mediterranean Women’s Fund since its inception.
Medfeminiswiya aspires to become the space its members imagine, and the platform they desire. We will endeavour to become a safe space for women working in the media sector by committing to uphold the principles of diversity, equality, freedom of expression, solidarity, trust and kindness among women journalists.
Our network believes that women and girls deserve public platforms and spaces that are free from traditional male-dominated newsrooms, hate speech, exclusion, and misogyny.
Meet our team
The Medfeminiswiya platform is carried by the eponymous association. Its content is produced by a network of women journalists from different countries around the Mediterranean.
Co-president, responsible for the Medfeminiswiya project
Samia AllalouSamia was born in Blida, Algeria, in a modest family. After studying journalism at the University of Algiers, she applied for a TV casting call and en...
Editor-in-chief of Medfeminiswiya.net
Olfa BelhassineOlfa Belhassine is a Tunisian journalist who worked with the Tunisian daily “La Presse” since 1990. After the 2011 protests, her articles started...
Co-editor-in-chief, responsible for the Arabic version of Medfeminiswiya.net
Manahel AlsahouiManahel is a Syrian writer and journalist advocating for human rights, refugees, and women. She has been working in journalism since 2016, writing abo...
Web editor
Chaimae ZouhiriFormée à l’Université de Sienne en « Langues pour la communication d'entreprise », Chaimae Zouhiri est rédactrice web à Medfeminiswiya. Né...
Project manager and journalist
Scoppa CristianaCristiana Scoppa was born in Rome, from a father from Naples, the metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea, and a mother, from German Kiel, a port on the c...
Co-editor-in-chief, responsible for the French version of Medfeminiswiya.net
Louise AuratLouise Aurat is a French journalist. An Arabist, she worked in Alexandria, Egypt, between 2021 and 2023 for various French newspapers and magazines (R...
Co-editor-in-chief, responsible for the English version of Medfeminiswiya.net
Caline NasrallahCaline Nasrallah is a literary translator, editor, and researcher with a focus on language as a feminist tool. She has co-translated two novels and is...