American-born Palestinian writer, journalist (b. 1993)
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Mariam Barghouti (born June 23, 1993) is an American-born Palestinian writer, journalist, blogger, researcher, and commentator. She lives in Ramallah .[ 2]
Career
She obtained a BA degree in English language and English Literature from Birzeit University with a focus on sociolinguistics . She received an MSc degree in Sociology and Global Change from the University of Edinburgh with a focus on Israeli Ashkenazi –Mizrahi racial hierarchies. She is also known for undertaking monitoring and evaluation missions of humanitarian and development aid in countries such as Jordan , Syria , and Lebanon , along with Palestine , a non-member observer state of the UN, and for various governmental as well as non-governmental organisations .[ 3]
Her political commentary and research work has notably featured in CNN ,[ 4] Al Jazeera English The Guardian BBC , Huffington Post The New York Times Middle East Monitor , Newsweek Mondoweiss International Business Times TRT World .[ 5] [ 6] I found Myself in Palestine .[ 7] Khaled Hourani [ 8] Dr. Hanan Ashrawi .[ 9]
She has commented on media double standards[ 10] [ 11] [ 12] 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis , she raised concerns on what she says is Israel's suppression attitude towards Palestine through her work on the ground as a researcher, journalist, and listener.[ 13] [ 14]
In May 2021, Twitter restricted her official Twitter account which was reporting on the protests from the West Bank during the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis ,[ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] [ 20] [ 22]
References
^ Erakat, Noura (2020). "Geographies of Intimacy: Contemporary Renewals of Black–Palestinian Solidarity" . American Quarterly . 72 (2): 471– 496. doi :10.1353/aq.2020.0027 . ISSN 1080-6490 . S2CID 226695787 . ^ Erakat, Noura; Barghouti, Mariam (10 May 2021). "Opinion: Sheikh Jarrah highlights the violent brazenness of Israel's colonialist project" . The Washington Post ^ "Mariam Barghouti" . Al-Shabaka . Retrieved 22 May 2021 .^ Israel Hamas ceasefire: View from the West Bank - CNN Video , retrieved 5 July 2022 ^ "Mariam Barghouti | Al Jazeera News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera" . www.aljazeera.com . Retrieved 22 May 2021 .^ "Mariam Barghouti" . Middle East Eye . Retrieved 22 May 2021 .^ Digital, C. H. C. (4 December 2019). "Interlink Publishing" . Interlink Publishing . Retrieved 5 July 2022 . ^ "Khaled Hourani | THIS ORIENT" . www.thisorient.com . Retrieved 5 July 2022 .^ "Be courageous, be daring in the pursuit of right | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung | Palestine and Jordan" . Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung . Retrieved 5 July 2022 .^ "Western journalists build careers in Palestine - and then leave us in the dust" . Middle East Eye . Retrieved 5 July 2022 .^ "Deconstructed: Life and Death in Occupied Palestine" . The Intercept . 21 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021 .^ "6 Palestinian Voices to Support and Amplify the #FreePalestine Movement | Egyptian Streets" . 21 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021 .^ Israel Hamas ceasefire: View from the West Bank – CNN Video , retrieved 22 May 2021 ^ "Why are Palestinians protesting? Because we want to live | Mariam Barghouti" . the Guardian . 16 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021 .^ "Inescapable hell: the Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip (21 - 10 May, 2021) [EN/AR] - occupied Palestinian territory | ReliefWeb" . reliefweb.int . 3 June 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2022 .^ Najjar, Farah. " . www.aljazeera.com . Retrieved 5 July 2022 . ^ "Restricted Palestinian journalist's account by accident, has been restored: Twitter" . Deccan Herald . 12 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021 .^ "Palestinians denounce 'censorship' of social networks" . France 24 . 12 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021 .^ Zahzah, Omar. "Digital apartheid: Palestinians being silenced on social media" . www.aljazeera.com . Retrieved 22 May 2021 . ^ a b Maiberg, Emanuel; Cox, Joseph (11 May 2021). "Twitter Said It Restricted Palestinian Writer's Account by Accident" . Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021 . ^ "I am Palestinian. Here's how Israel silences us on social media" . Rest of World . 23 June 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2022 .^ Baker, Sinéad (12 May 2021). "A Palestinian journalist who was reporting live from the West Bank says Twitter asked her to delete her tweets" . Business Insider Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021 .
