Faces of Women and Community Empowerment in Jordan

Yusur Al-Bahrani is an award winning, freelance journalist based in Toronto.  After receiving the International Development and Research Centre Journalism Award, she traveled to Jordan to write about women empowerment.

As a national board member at the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), Yusur represented the organization at the UN's Commission on the Status of Women.  She was also the Director at Large at Amnesty International Toronto Organization.

Prior to moving to Canada, Yusur interned and worked at CNN Middle East's headquarters in Dubai.

Yusur holds a BA Degree in Mass Communications from the American University of Sharjah (UAE) as well as an MA in Journalism from Ryerson University.  She immigrated to Canada from Dubai in 2010.