Rachel Shabi

Rachel Mary Shabi (born 1973 in Newham, Essex)[1] is an English journalist and author. She is a contributing writer to The Guardian and the author of We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands, a book on Israel's Oriental Jews. In her writings, she is highly critical of the Israeli government and the mainstream Israeli narrative of the Arab-Israel conflict.

Shabi argues that Mizrahi Jews would be better identified as Arabs or people of Arabic descent. She is identified as a post-Zionist.[2]

Life and Career


Shabi was born in Newham, Essex England to an Iraqi Jewish father and an English mother. She studied politics and literature at the University of Edinburgh.[3] She has written extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Middle East for a variety of national and international newspapers including the Guardian, the Times, English Aljazeera, Jane's Intelligence Digest, Foreign Policy, the New Statesman and the National (UAE).[4][5][6]

Shabi's book, We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands, was published in 2009 and received a National Jewish Book Award.[7] She was shortlisted for the 2011 Orwell journalism prize[8] and nominated for the 2011 Next Century Foundation cutting edge media award.[9]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=rachel&lastname=shabi
  2. ↑ How Post-Zionists Falsify the History of Middle Eastern Jewry Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 28 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/rachel-shabi
  4. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/17/antisemitism-new-york-times-jerusalem-correspondent
  5. ↑ http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/03/segregation-and-echoes-apartheid-israel-launches-palestinian-only-buses
  6. ↑ http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/02/israel-defend-democracy-knesset-members-palestinians-160214094237757.html
  7. ↑ "NJBA Winners", Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  8. ↑ https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/47025
  9. ↑ http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/events/details?year=2013&month=3&day=6
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