A Syria-based woman journalist Zaina Erhaim has won the prestigious 2015 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. She was awarded for her efforts to train citizen reporters despite facing harsh oppression in her war-ravaged country – Syria. The award will be presented at a ceremony to be held at the National Press Club in Washington in late October 2015.

Zaina Erhaim lives and works in Aleppo, Syria which is the deadliest country for journalists since 2011 as per Media Rights Group.