RAMALLAH IPS – Nisreen Awwad moves closer to the microphone as she signs off to her listeners, the words “Nisaa FM: music, change, success” displayed prominently over her left shoulder.“The thing I love in my program is when I interview simple women from the villages, because they are successful and are doing something different in their society,” the 31-year-old radio producer, a native of the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, said.Host of the daily morning show on Nisaa FM called after the Arabic word for women, Awwad explains that positively influencing the roles women play in Palestinian society, and changing the way Palestinian women view themselves, is what she strives for.
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