2010.04.17: Jordan RPCV Ashley Bates Dispatches from Gaza
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Jordan RPCV Ashley Bates Dispatches from Gaza
For an in-depth eyewitness view of life in Gaza, you'll do no better than, Dispatches from Gaza, a new blog just launched by a young journalist named Ashely Bates. Ashley has been in Israel/Palestine on on a three month internship for Ha'aretz and in late March she entered Gaza to write free-lance. She's pitching her articles to various publications - in the meantime her extensive reportage is available via her blog. Ashley is an amazing and accomplished young woman. Before getting her journalism degree from Northwestern University, she spent two years working for the Peace Corps in Jordan (where she became fluent in Arabic.) She currently works as the Program Director for the Chicago area co-existence program Hands of Peace, which is where I originally had the pleasure of meeting her.
Jordan RPCV Ashley Bates Dispatches from Gaza
Ashley Bates Dispatches from Gaza
by Shalom Rav [➚] · Saturday, April 17th, 2010
For an in-depth eyewitness view of life in Gaza, you'll do no better than, Dispatches from Gaza, a new blog just launched by a young journalist named Ashely Bates. Ashley has been in Israel/Palestine on on a three month internship for Ha'aretz and in late March she entered Gaza to write free-lance. She's pitching her articles to various publications - in the meantime her extensive reportage is available via her blog.
Ashley is an amazing and accomplished young woman. Before getting her journalism degree from Northwestern University, she spent two years working for the Peace Corps in Jordan (where she became fluent in Arabic.) She currently works as the Program Director for the Chicago area co-existence program Hands of Peace, which is where I originally had the pleasure of meeting her.
Bookmark her blog. It offers the kind of on-the-ground reportage from Gaza that you will never, ever find in the mainstream media.
Click here for her latest post - a report on the first ever Gaza demonstration against child labor in the Gaza-Egypt smuggling tunnels.
I am a freelance reporter and youth leadership trainer based in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. I'm seeking to publish my book manuscript about cross-cultural experiences in Jordan and find meaningful work as a narrative, investigative journalist.
I recently received a master's degree in economic reporting from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. I also serve as Program Director at Hands of Peace, a summer dialogue camp for Palestinian, Israeli and American teenagers. Through both my writing and my international development efforts, I strive to give power and voice to local leaders in underserved communities.
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