RAMALLAH, March 11, 2010 (WAFA) - Ms. Muna Qawasmi the won 2 nd Annual Palestinian Media Woman Award Ceremony, funded by AMIN Media Network yesterday.

 AMIN Media Network celebrated in the International Women’s Day in an annual Palestinian media woman award ceremony held in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

This year’s award was presented to Ms. Muna Qawasmi for her unique and notable performance as a female reporter & photographer at Al-Quds Daily Newspaper.

 Ms. Qawasmi has worked as a reporter for Al-Quds Daily Newspaper for 12 years and is one of the very few Palestinian female media photographers working in the field. Her unique photographing skills documented a wide-range of events and incidents across the Palestinian Territories over the past decade, with a particular focus on the city of Jerusalem.

In a short speech for Ms. Qawasmi after receiving the award, she appreciated this honorarium ceremony, and affirmed her strong belief in the fact that in order to be a successful journalist, you should work in the field, not from the office or from behind your desk.

'I am honoured to receive this award. I feel it's a tribute to the field work and even more so to Jerusalem,' she stated.

AMIN Media Network launched the “Annual Palestinian Media Woman Award” in 2009 aiming at promoting the role of Palestinian female media professionals and encouraging their innovation & creativity.

Among its wide-ranged projects and activities, this honorarium ceremony is part of the activities AMIN has been dedicating for promoting female media professionals’ role in Palestinian media and increasing gender-awareness in the Palestinian community and in the workforce.

AMIN’s Executive Director, Khaled Abu Aker, who give Muna the Prize along with Palestinian Jornalist Syndicate Secretary General, Abdul Nasser Najjar,  offered his congratulations to Palestinian women and female media professionals on the International Women’s Day, and added, “Palestinian female media professionals’ role in local media is very limited, and therefore this award is an opportunity to honour & promote our female media professionals as a form of expressing our appreciation for their hard-work”.

Local female media professionals, representing various local media outlets, attended the ceremony, which included an open discussion on the current status of female media professionals. Participants were granted the opportunity to introduce themselves and exchange their experiences on issues, concerns, and obstacles facing them in the media workplace.