Amira Hanania: Making Palestinian Women’s Voices Heard

This is the trailer for Live from Bethlehem, a documentary featuring the Ma’an News Agency, the only independent news network in the Palestinian Territories. Earlier this week, I went to hear Palestinian journalist Amira Hanania speak about her work as the only woman lead journalist for Ma’an — and, by extension, the only independent woman journalist in Palestine.
A daring journalist committed to challenging sexism even in times of war, I found Hanania’s own story as fascinating as the stories she’s exposed. At 26 years old, Hanania has been an advocate of independent media in Palestine for a decade, since she went on the air with her own talk show at age seventeen. And she’s a vocal proponent of making Palestinian women’s voices heard in Palestine and beyond, reporting on everything from the war in Gaza to Palestinian marriage laws through a strong feminist lens.
No matter what your view on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, this woman is a real kick-butt feminist hero.