Rewriting the rules of reporting

There are accounts here of reporting from war zones and, for example, of being embedded with the United States military during the Iraq War

The best piece of advice I've ever heard about being a journalist is from the investigative reporter Amy Goodman, who has worked in Nigeria and East Timor, among other places. Goodman said this: “Go to where the silence is and say something.”

That sentence hung in my mind while reading Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting From the Arab World, a stirring, provocative and well-made new anthology edited by the Lebanese-British journalist Zahra Hankir. It's a book that banishes all manner of silences.

Ms Hankir invited 19 Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat  — female journalists — to detail