Solafa S.

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Solafa Sallam is a Multimedia Reporter and Mobile Journalism Instructor based in Cairo, Egypt. In 2020, she won the prestigious Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). On April 27, 2020, the Washington Post Press Freedom Partnership spotlighted Sallam, She facing murder threats, detention and lifetime prison sentences simply for doing her jobs-reporting the truth and holding the powerful to account. ​ She graduated from Ain Shams University in 2009 in Cairo, Egypt with a degree in law. Since then she has been working for many national and international outlets. Her area of expertise is TV and online TV, as she focuses on shooting/producing her own mobile based reports for the web. Her work has appeared in Deutsche Welle, TRT World, MadaMasr, Alroeya (UAE) Newspaper, Al-Araby TV, and BBC Egypt. Her news reports and features have covered the political transition and social unrest in Egypt, sexual harassment in Egyptian society, minority rights, women's rights, education, human rights, and refugees. ​ She has been to The United Nations, and other esteemed entities both in Egypt & the U.S. Belgium, London and Lebanon, to address local, regional and global challenges and discuss potential proposals and initiatives, building strong relations and cooperation between youth and community initiatives between these countries. At the United Nations, Solafa is keen to follow discussions of human rights – particularly, freedom of speech and protections for journalists – as well as initiatives to eradicate poverty and reduce plastic waste. She managed and supervised her own newsroom with other journalists and cameramen. Preparing pitches, digging up for stories and shooting/producing. She can leading TV crew for international media, and supervise production teams on the ground as well as do her own production. In addition to the qualifications of writing short stories and producing TV documentaries. ​ She has launched a press initiative focusing on the use of social media tools in creating small press platforms to be alternative verification media channel, and covering through direct broadcast technology on Facebook. ​ She has founded of Everyday Footage ''Non-Profit’’, a school that trains young women journalists and researchers in mobile reporting, in order to be able to work as one woman/man crew. In September 2019 she was selected among 15 journalists around the world to participate in a UN fellowship and to cover the UN General Assembly, she was the only fellow from the Arab World in 2019 Additionally she have got a grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to participate in the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Germany

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