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Maryam Al-Barghouti

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Maryam Barghouti is a Palestinian-American writer, blogger, researcher, activist, commentator, and journalist, who hails from Ramallah. Maryam worked as a journalist and reporter specializing in issues related to the Levant, and published many social and political reports from Palestine.

her career
Maryam Barghouti holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Birzeit University. In April 2014, Maryam, who was 20 years old at the time, was arrested during her participation in a peaceful march against the Israeli occupation policies in the village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, and she was transferred to the Al-Jalama interrogation center. She was released afterwards. Barghouti holds an MA in Sociology and Global Change from the University of Edinburgh.

Al-Barghouti has carried out monitoring and evaluation tasks for humanitarian and development aid in countries such as Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon for various governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Her political commentary and research work appears notably in Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, BBC, Huffington Post, New York Times, Middle East Monitor, Newsweek, Moondways, International Business Times and TRT Worldwide.

Al-Barghouti is also a prominent activist in defending the rights of the Palestinian people through novels and stories, and her activism has increased global awareness of the harsh realities and experiences faced by Palestinians under Israeli control. During the 2021 Israeli-Palestinian clashes, she often expressed her concerns about Israel's oppressive stance toward Palestine through her civil activism. Maryam Al-Barghouti believes that there was a turning point with the outbreak of violence in some cities that had been presented for years as a model of coexistence: “We saw that violence is not limited to the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” explaining that “it is also present in Tel Aviv, Lod, and Jaffa, with those shouting “death.” to the Arabs, and attack the Palestinians with weapons.

In May 2021, Twitter imposed restrictions on Maryam's official Twitter account, which was covering protests in the West Bank during the 2021 Israeli-Palestinian clashes. During the temporary restriction, each tweet from the journalist was replaced with the following message, "Mariam Barghouti's account is temporarily unavailable because it violates media policy." Twitter". Al-Barghouti said that Twitter asked her to delete some of her tweets. The company later said that the account restriction was due to a mistake. Al-Barghouti considered that the issue is not in suspending her account, "but rather in imposing general censorship on Palestinian accounts, especially in the past few weeks while trying to document Israeli attacks on the ground."

her opinions
In an interview with the Democracy Now program in July 2021, Maryam Barghouti talked about what she described as “the oppressive actions of the Palestinian Authority against its people.” She said that the Authority acts like a police state, but without a state, and that most of the funding provided by donor countries goes To strengthen the security services, as you see that the authority “took advantage of the Corona pandemic to impose new laws to oppress the Palestinians.”

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