الانتفاضة الإلكترونية
Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse and is a contributor to The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict (Nation Books). He has contributed to several other books and written hundreds of articles on the question of Palestine in a wide array of publications, including The Jordan Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times and Al Jazeera.
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Rami Almeghari has been The Electronic Intifada’s correspondent in Gaza since 2005. He is also a radio reporter for the US-based Free Speech Radio News and a part-time lecturer on media in local academic institutions.
Nora Barrows-Friedman is an award-winning independent journalist, who has reported extensively for The Electronic Intifada. She also writes for Inter Press Service, Al Jazeera, Truthout and other outlets, and regularly reports from Palestine.
David Cronin is the author of Europe’s Alliance With Israel: Aiding the Occupation (Pluto Press, 2011). He received widespread coverage when he attempted to put Tony Blair under citizen’s arrest for war crimes in March 2010. In February 2011, he also tried to arrest Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, for the crime of apartheid. A prolific journalist, he has written for The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal Europe, European Voice, the Inter Press Service, The Irish Times, The Sunday Tribune and The Electronic Intifada.
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Benjamin Doherty is a web developer. Doherty has been a member of the Chicago Palestine Film Festival committee since 2001. He is a contributor to the open source Drupal project.
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Ken Harper (R)
Ken Harper is a graduate of Western Kentucky University’s Photojournalism program. After several months in Palestine, he returned to the U.S. to become a designer at Sun Publications in Chicago. After several years there, Harper joined the features design staff at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, where he began his transition to new media design. Harper decided on a digital vagabond lifestyle, traveling around the country by motorcycle, designing on a freelance basis through his own company, ironcladimages.com. He has worked as a multimedia designer and producer for MSNBC.com, New York Life, Bausch & Lomb and various non-profit organizations. Harper is currently pursuing a masters degree in Communication in the Ohio University Visual Communications graduate program. Harper worked both on the EI v2.0 and EI v3.0 redesign projects.
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Laurie King
Dr. Laurie King is an editor, anthropologist, and freelance writer, and coordinated the International Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila, whose legal team lodged the historic case in Belgium against Ariel Sharon and other Israelis and Lebanese responsible for the 1982 massacres. King edited Middle East Report Magazine published by Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) from 1998-2000. In that capacity, she was a frequent commentator on national and international news programs, including MSNBC and CNN, on political, cultural, and military developments in the Middle East and US foreign policies in the region. King initiated MERIP’s media e-mail outreach service and has written articles about International Humanitarian Law and post-war reconstruction and reconciliation that have been published in national magazines and academic journals in the US and Lebanon. King-Irani has a Ph.D in Sociocultural Anthropology, specializing in the political identity and participation of Palestinian citizens of Israel, based on her field research as a Fulbright scholar in 1992-93 in Nazareth, Israel. She lived and worked in Beirut from 1993-1998. She is the managing editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies in Washington, DC and a lecturer in anthropology at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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Maureen Clare Murphy
Maureen Murphy is a solidarity activist based in Chicago. She was previously based in the Middle East and has covered cultural production for The Electronic Intifada since 2003.
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