Mervat Ouf

Mervat Ouf is a Palestinian journalist and researcher from the Gaza Strip. On Twitter: @MervatMahammed

Palestine | Apr 9, 2022

21-year-old women's basketball coach leaves Gaza to train Saudi team

Dalia Nasr, the first Palestinian female professional basketball player in Saudi Arabia, will now train a Saudi team.

Palestine | Apr 2, 2022

Gaza women study self-defense against domestic violence

Faten al-Naqla, a Gaza-based kung fu instructor, took it upon herself to train women in self-defense amid the rise of women’s deaths at the hands of their husbands.

Palestine | Mar 21, 2022

Palestinian female candidates struggle to change political, social attitudes

Despite efforts to encourage women to both vote and run in local elections in the West Bank, candidates say much work remains to be done.

Palestine | Mar 6, 2022

Gazan engineer creates solar food dehydrator

Engineer Hanadi Abu Harbid from the Gaza Strip has developed a food dehydrator that relies on solar power and locally available resources.

Hanadi Abu Harbid stands next to the food dehydrator.

Culture | Feb 27, 2022

Gaza technicians link animal bones to distant past

Native technicians are behind some big archaeological discoveries in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian workers clean a section of the archaeological site of the Saint Hilarion Monastery, one of the largest Christian monasteries in the Middle East, in Tell Umm al-Amr close to Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, March 19, 2013.

Palestine | Feb 26, 2022

Ukrainians in Gaza grieve for their country

The Ukrainian community in Gaza is living in constant fear as they follow the latest development of the Russian invasion, unable to help their relatives back home.

Palestine | Feb 17, 2022

Rise in price of falafel leaves Palestinians hangry

The price hike of a falafel sandwich, a popular street food once available to all, has stirred wide resentment amid the increase of prices of other foodstuffs.

A Palestinian boy waits for falafel at a vendor in Hebron in the West Bank, April 18, 2021.

Culture | Dec 8, 2021

Ancient Gaza monastery restored by unemployed young Palestinians

For the third year in a row, a Palestinian team under French supervision works on the restoration of St. Hilarion Monastery in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp.

Capitals (L) and two plinths (R) are seen in the sand at the archaeological site of the St. Hilarion Monastery, in Tell Umm al-Amr, central Gaza Strip, March 19, 2013.

Palestine | Oct 22, 2021

Fatwa banning trade of flour for bread stirs anger in Gaza

A controversial fatwa has been overruled after it forbade the exchange of flour for bread at local bakeries in Gaza, where power cuts make it difficult to bake at home.

Palestine | Oct 18, 2021

Breast reconstruction surgery on the rise in Gaza

Pink October is painful for breast cancer survivors in the Gaza Strip with marginalized and poor women unable to get breast reconstruction due to social unawareness or poor economic conditions.