Heba Shibani is a Libyan war correspondent, film producer and women's rights activist.
Career
editShibani has worked for a variety of news outlets, including Reuters,[1] Libya TV, Alassema TV, and Alnabaa News TV.[2] For Alhan Libiyya, she produced the series Lahni, which explores the diversity of music in Libya.[3] She has produced television programmes on women's rights in Libya.[4] She reported on the situation some Libyan women were facing, where their children were due to be deported, since Libyan law did not allow women to pass their citizenship to their children.[5] She was forced to flee Libya in 2014, due to her journalism.[4] She is one of nineteen women reporters whose essays on their work were published in 2019 in the volume Our Women on the Ground.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Columns | Reuters.com". www.reuters.com. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ^ "Heba Shibani – Arab Women in Films". 2021-10-15. Archived from the original on 2021-10-15. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ^ "Lahni | Alhan Libiyya". 2021-10-15. Archived from the original on 2021-10-15. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ^ a b "Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival". 2021-10-15. Archived from the original on 2021-10-15. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ^ "How to be a Female Journalist in The Middle East? | Al Bawaba". 2021-10-15. Archived from the original on 2021-10-15. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ^ "Women reporters in war zones: The stories that need to be told | Middle East Eye". 2021-10-15. Archived from the original on 2021-10-15. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
External links
edit- British Council Hammamet Conference 2014 Heba Shibani
- Heba Shibani website Archived 2021-11-23 at the Wayback Machine
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