ABHA: A media club for women journalists has been set up here with the blessing of Asir Gov. Prince Faisal ibn Khaled. The aim of the club, which is the brainchild of Arab News correspondent Hayat Al-Ghamdi, is to promote women journalists in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region and provide them a congenial work environment.
Prince Faisal said that women should be accorded their right to work as journalists as they have been serving efficiently in several other areas, including medicine. The governor denied reports that women journalists were not allowed to cover his office.
“I am proud and happy to meet with my sisters in the media world,” Prince Faisal said. “All their proposals in this meeting will be given due consideration and their media activities will be made hassle free. They will be allowed to work in the field without hindrance from any quarter.”
The club was founded in a meeting last week. The members of the club include Samiah Al-Buraidi of Al-Watan, Nasreen Asiri of Al-Riyadh and Riyadh Radio, Sarah Abdullah of Jeddah Radio and Umm Kulthum of Al-Ekhbariya TV.
-- Arab News
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