- Rabia Eshak Rabia Eshak was working in her community on health and development issues in northern Nigeria when she noticed something alarming. “Girls were not in school,” she recalls. “They were invisible.” Both boys and girls enrolled in first, second and third grade. “But once you go down to class four [or] five…the girls just disappear quietly,” […]
- Sarwat Jahan Sarwat Jahan knows how hard it is to change someone’s mind. For the past two decades, she has tried do so over and over again. But she doesn’t rely on hypnosis or arm-twisting; instead she focuses on inclusivity and patient peacebuilding in her work countering violent extremism in Pakistan. Sarwat knows that here achieving success […]
- Hala Khairalla When Hala Khairalla produced her first on-location broadcast for Al Jazeera television in November 2011, she re-recorded it 26 times until it played in her dreams. It had to be perfect. Hala was the first woman from Syria that Al Jazeera put on the air to report on the violence spreading throughout cities like Aleppo. […]
- Bibie Hassani After 34 years teaching primary school, one could forgive Bibie Hassani if she was set in her ways. Her methods, her classroom aids—all had served her as well as could be expected in the rural schools of Mtwara, Tanzania, where resources for teachers are paltry and scores of children pack classrooms with no electricity or […]
