Step 1: Donate to Tia’s family here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Trauma-Informed Reporting” here.

In this workshop, Marah Abdel Jaber will provide a practical guide on documenting community stories, utilizing oral history collection tools, and exploring journalism’s role in generating personal histories.

Organizers and aspiring writers interested in storytelling as impactful action will learn how to approach individuals and subjects sensitively throughout the pitching, interviewing, and writing process while being mindful of their own trauma consumption.

Drawing on examples from the Institute for Palestine Studies’ blog coverage of the genocide in Gaza, this workshop seeks to equip writers with the skills needed to amplify marginalized narratives and highlight local movements.

Marah Abdel Jaber is a Palestinian writer, researcher, and creative. Her work focuses on constructions of the Palestinian nation, fragmented identities, environmental development, creative movements, and imagined space. She holds an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas at El Paso.