
Jehan Alfarra
Jehan Alfarra is a British-Palestinian multimedia journalist, editor and writer with over a decade of experience covering Middle Eastern current affairs and politics, culture and human rights.
She has lived and worked for years in both Gaza and London and has reported from across Europe and the Middle East, producing impactful video and written stories from countries such as Palestine, Tunisia, Egypt, France and Turkey. She has also been published in several books including ‘Gaza Writes Back’, ‘The Arab Spring: Five Years On’ and ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Academics and Intellectuals Speak Out’.
Items by Jehan Alfarra
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- July 14, 2016 Jehan Alfarra
Profile: Prof Richard Falk
Born into a Jewish family in New York in 1930, Richard Falk grew up to become a distinguished academic, author and public speaker. He is now a professor emeritus of International Law at Princeton University in the United States and the former UN special rapporteur for Human Rights in the…
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- January 11, 2016 Jehan Alfarra
Stepping into the life of displaced refugees
London’s P21 Gallery is presenting a group exhibition entitled “Jerusalem//Home”, bringing together the photographic works of four young photographers from Jerusalem, ceramic works by two London-based artists, and digital artworks by a US-based Palestinian American artist. On entering the gallery, the viewer encounters a set of beautifully-captured photographs of Jerusalem’s…
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- January 7, 2016 Jehan Alfarra
UK MPs speak out about Israeli detention of Palestinian children
British parliament held a debate on the issue of child prisoners and detainees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the second time yesterday, following a debate on the issue in 2010. The debate was procured by Sarah Champion MP, who began by addressing the ill-treatment meted out to Palestinian children…
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- December 18, 2015 Jehan Alfarra
Israel is gradually eroding both Palestinian infrastructure and any hope for statehood
Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the world has been observing the gradual disintegration of any hope for Palestinian statehood. There is no clearer evidence of this than the severe neglect and active restriction and destruction of both Palestine’s historical and newly established infrastructure in the occupied…