Today we are featuring our host's interview with Palestinian activist, author, documentary filmmaker and Professor of Anthropology, Amahl Bishara.
Amahl Bishara is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. She filmed the documentary "Across Oceans, Among Colleagues" (2002), which follows the advocacy efforts of the New Yorkâbased Committee to Protect Journalists on behalf of journalists in the Middle East. And she has written a book, Back Stories, about the role Palestinians play in the gathering and reporting the news that comes out of Palestine.
In her book, Back Stories, Amahl writes about how journalists work in the West Bank, and demonstrates how the production of U.S. news about Palestinians depends on multifaceted collaborations, typically invisible to Western readers. She focuses on the work that Palestinian journalists do behind the scenes and below the bylinesâas fixers, photojournalists, camera people, reporters, and producersâto provide the news that Americans read, see, and hear every day.
Our host spoke with Amahl in her office at Tufts University.
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