Laila el-Haddad
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Laila El-Haddad is a Palestinian journalist and writer based between Gaza and the United States, who writes principally for the Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel's english language website and the Guardian Unlimited. The mother of a young child named Yousuf, she was schooled in Bahrain and the United States. She earned her B.A. from Duke University and her Master in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, after being awarded the Clinton Scholarship for Palestinian graduate students.
A running theme in El-Haddad's writing is the personalisation of the situation of Gazans and Palestinians by writing with humour and introspective humanity about her domestic life and those of other Gazans. By revealing Palestinians neither as terrorists nor as currency in a worldwide market of political opposition to western dominance, but as sympathetic people capable of wit and humour amid violence and the occupation of their territory, she thereby contributes a human voice from Palestine.
She has been a correspondent for Ajazeera.net's english language website since 2003, and most recently, a writer for the Guardian's new 'Comment is Free' blog.
El-Haddad's work is also frequently found in the New Statesman, Daily Star, Electronic Intifada, le monde diplomatique [1] and Pacifica Radio. Since November 2004, she has also authored a blog called Raising Yousuf: A Diary of a Mother Under Occupation.
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- Guardian Unlimited
- "Raising Yousuf ('This blog is about raising my son Yousuf in the occupied Gaza Strip while working as a journalist, and everything that entails from potty training to border crossings. Together, we endure a lot, and the personal becomes political. This is our story.')"
- Five part series for the Guardian on the 2005 Palestinian elections: here, here, here, here and here.
- "'Personal Voices: The Occupation is Not Over,' AlterNet, August 2005."
- "'Disengagement from Justice,' Washington Post, July 2005."
- "Gaza Families Live in the Shadow of Death, Electronic Intifada, October 2004."
- "'Rafah Counting the Dead,' Al Jazeera, June 2004."
- Selves and Others
