I have lived in Lebanon for almost three years yet I still feel I am discovering new things every day. This morning I took a different route to church suggested by my friend and we drove by an ancient Roman aqueduct, built into the cliffs rising above Beirut centuries upon centuries ago. Only five minutes from my apartment and I […]
SAT-7 Egypt Information Officer Mary Joseph introduces two Egyptian women whose life-changing community work has earnt them Nobel Peace Prize nominations The theme of the 2015 International Women’s Day is “Make It Happen” and that’s what two Egyptian women did and are still doing through their constant service to Egyptian society. Their perseverance throughout the obstacles they faced and their […]
Two short films produced by SAT-7, A Dress and Braids, have won awards at film festivals in Egypt and Mauritania. Both films promote women’s rights and raise awareness of social challenges they face in Middle East and North African societies. “In the light of SAT-7’s mission of defending the weak and being a voice to the voiceless, we produced these […]
The SAT-7 ARABIC channel’s women’s programme Needle and Thread tackles difficult issues from a hope-filled Christian perspective. Lindsay Shaw reports. When SAT-7 ARABIC launched Needle and Thread, its magazine show for young women last year, it laid out its stall clearly from the start. “This programme seeks to present women that are fully alive. Women not only need to embrace […]
Receiving an award from your industry peers is always going to be exciting. No more so than when that recognition is for your work in improving the lives of society’s most vulnerable. That’s what happened this summer for Juliana Sfeir, Special Projects Manager and Executive Producer of social impact programmes at SAT-7 Lebanon when the Lebanese Center for Human Rights […]
Women are playing a crucial role in what is one of the most unexpected stories of our generation: the growth of the Church in Iran. Dr Mojdeh Shirvanian from Elam Ministries has served the Church in Iran for over thirty years. Here she identifies three ways in which this is happening. Before the Iranian revolution in 1979 there were a […]
