Fadi Abushammalah

Fadi Abushammalah is an affiliate visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and the School of Foreign Service (SFS), currently based in Washington, D.C.

Fadi is the executive director of the General Union of Cultural Centers – the only cultural union in Palestine. Fadi is also the Just Vision outreach associate in Gaza, and the director of Donkeysaddle Projects‘ Palestine Grassroots Distribution Project. In addition, he has worked as an interpreter, producer and fixer for numerous international institutions and news agencies including Washington Post, De Standaard, Corriere Della Sera, Rai radio and TV, The National. He has written for the New York Times and TIME magazine, among other outlets.

Fadi has a BA in English Language from Al Aqsa University.  He lived his entire life in Gaza, until November 2023, when he and his family evacuated, due to what human rights organizations including Amnesty International has termed a genocide.

Links

• “What More Must the Children of Gaza Suffer?” by Fadi Abushammalah. The New York Times. 12 October 2023.
• “I’ve Tried to Keep My Kids Safe Through 3 Bombardments of Gaza. It’s Never Been Like This Before” by Fadi Abushammalah. TIME magazine. 20 May 2021.