How do you report on what's going on in your country when it's no longer safe for you to be there?
This is the conversation, the show that amplifies women's voices, which is just a fancy way of saying we bring two exceptional women together who share an expertise and see what happens.
I'm Ela al Shamahi.
Today we have Hind el Eriani, who is a freelance journalist and human rights advocate from Yemen.
She has covered the war in her country and written about women's rights.
After facing threats to her life, she now lives in Sweden.
And journalist Nazi Hasaid was arrested and detained by bahraini authorities while covering protests in the country.
She eventually had to leave and now lives in Germany.
Welcome to you both.
I'm gonna jump straight in and ask.
You're a very unique generation of female journalists from the Middle east.
Can I say that the Arab Spring partly raised you?
Hind, do you want to start us off?
Raised us?
Yeah, yeah, I believe.
I believe it did.
All the attention was on the Middle east and what's happening on the Middle east.
And so this helped us also raise our voices and talk what's happening there.
And we had lots of hopes and dreams and I feel sad now when I talk about it because I can.
See it in your voice.