Jared Malsin

Jared Malsin is a an editor at the English desk of the Ma'an News Agency, an independent Palestinian news network. He lives in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour.

Obama: the view from Palestine

I was drinking beer with my friend Baha' the other night when the US presidential election came up. Baha' is an educated, left-wing Palestinian guy who lived in

By Jared Malsin

/ 12 May 2008

Walled in?

Whether stereotyped as terrorists or idolised as freedom fighters, Palestinians are not a people often associated with nonviolence. In a world of checkpoints, airstrikes, squalid refugee camps, and nightly raids

By Jared Malsin

/ 9 Nov 2007