TED: The courage to tell a hidden story: 


I chose the talk "The courage to tell a hidden story", and the speaker of this talk is Eman Mohammed. When she turned 19 years old, she became the first female photographer on the Gaza stripe. This was considered a mans job, and it was made clear that a woman should not do a mans job. Some felt it was a serious insult to cultural traditions, Eman experienced. She tells about one time when 3 of her colleages went as far as to drive her to an open air strike zone where the only thing she could hear was the sound of explosion. They drove away, laughing. Eman says in the talk that her work is not to hide the scars of war, but to show the full frame of unseen stories of Gaza. 
I chose this talk because it was a really touching story, and I think it is impressing that she comes forward and tells this story to the world.  In Norway some complain about the differences between men and women, but compared to what Eman talks about, we don't get to complain. This issue is a serious matter, and it has to change. I was surprised by the way she was treated by her colleges. I knew that there where serious gender differences in the Palestine, but I did not know that women where treated so badly.