Rasha Abou Jalal on why she writes
Al-Monitor contributor Rasha Abou Jalal shares her thoughts on journalism.
Rasha Abou Jalal has been writing for Al-Monitor since June 2013. A freelance journalist from Gaza, she specializes in political news and humanitarian and social issues.
Al-Monitor: Why did you decide to become a journalist?
Jalal: The size of suffering that my people is experiencing because of the Israeli occupation and the resulting bad economic and social phenomena such as poverty, unemployment, death and deprivation has pushed me to dedicate my time and life to depict these sufferings to the external world and to let it know what kind of injustice, oppression and tyranny my poor people have been going through for decades. I always try to be unbiased, but humanity is always biased toward the oppressed.
Al-Monitor: Did you have female role models to look up to when you were first starting out? Who?
