Shefa'a Qudah

I am an independent journalist from Jordan working at the intersection of political rights and freedoms, writing from a position that witnesses how power marks the body and daily life. Since 2018, I have covered protests and social movements and published investigations and in-depth reports in Arab and international outlets such as The Guardian, Raseef22, IJNet, and Khatt30, among others. I am committed to producing feminist knowledge that connects personal experience to social and political structures, and to documenting gender-based violence, women’s experiences in the public sphere, and the conditions of journalism in the region. I work on stories from a place of vulnerability and strength at the same time, and I believe that writing is a space to reclaim one’s voice and break the silence around what we have been socially conditioned to disregard. I am a recipient of Arab awards for rights-based journalism. I do not believe that the role of a journalist is limited to reporting events; rather, it should question dominant discourses and expand the boundaries of what can be narrated more justly and truthfully.