Majeda Al Batsh
Born and raised in Aqbat Al-Saraya, Old City of Jerusalem; attended Ma’muniya and Ibrahimiya schools, East Jerusalem; active in student politics after 1967; MA in Broadcast Journalism from Moscow and Leningrad Universities; 1984;
Wrote for Al-Fajr, Al-Usbu’a Al-Jadid, Al-Mawqif Al-‘Arabi papers and briefly at Al-Quds newspaper; camera and sound technician for the NBC and CBS before joining the Agence France Press (1990-96 and 2002-present) where she worked as reporter; selected for the Nieman Scholarship Award for outstanding Middle East journalist and given a year fellowship at Harvard University; wrote for foreign TV on Jerusalem social and women’s issues;
Considered nominating herself as a running candidate for the position of President in the 2005 PA elections but soon withdrew. |
