Alena Jabarine

Alena Jabarine (*1985) is a German-Palestinian with both German and Israeli citizenship. She grew up in Hamburg, studied politics, and completed a journalistic traineeship at NDR. She then worked mainly for public service programmes. From 2020 to 2022, she lived in Ramallah and worked for a foundation there. During this time, she began reporting on the everyday life of the Palestinian population and explaining political situations on Instagram. Since the beginning of the current war in Gaza in particular, she has been regularly invited as an expert, including at the NATO Defence College in Rome, at the Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich Chamber Theatre), and at the Berliner Ensemble soon.