Fadi Abushammala
Fadi is the Director of DSP's Palestine Grassroots Distribution Project.
Fadi is also the affiliate visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and the School of Foreign Service (SFS), currently based in Washington DC; the executive director of the General Union of Cultural Centers—the only cultural union in Palestine; and the Just Vision outreach associate in Gaza.
In addition, Fadi has worked as an interpreter, producer, and fixer for numerous international institutions and news agencies including Washington Post, De Standaard, Corriere Della Sera, Rai radio and TV, The National. He has written for the New York Times and TIME magazine, among other outlets.
Fadi has a BA in English Language from Al Aqsa University. He lived his entire life in Gaza, until November 2023 when he and his family evacuated, due to what human rights organizations including Amnesty International have termed a genocide.