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The Inshallah Media Team

Maurice Jacobsen: Producer/Director is an independent documentary maker who has worked on projects throughout the world for the past thirty years.  Following documentaries produced for PBS and Discovery Channel Europe he began working in the Middle East with funding from KQED-TV, San Francisco and ITVS on the online documentary series Jerusalem: A Living History.  Maurice has a BA degree in Film Production from the University of Denver and has studied at the American Film Institute Digital Content Lab where he specialized in th production of online interactive documentary programming. He has taught on the faculties of American University, the New School for Social Research and the University of Bridgeport.

Jonathan Cook: Journalist/Writer/Coproducer is an award-winning independent journalist based in Israel/Palestine since 2001; he has written three books on the conflict.  A former Guardian staff journalist, he has also been published by the International Heral Tribune, London time, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al-Jazeera.com, the National (Abu Dhabi), among others.  He won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism in 2011.

Mya Guarnieri: journalist/writer/co-producer is a Tel Aviv-based journalist and writer. A regular contributor to Al Jazeera English, her work has also appeared in The Guardian , The National (Abu Dhabi), Outlook India (India's Newsweek subsidiary), Haaretz, The Jewish Daily Forward, Maan News Agency, Electronic Intifada, Common Ground News Service, Mondoweiss, Zeek, Daily News Egypt, and The Khaleej Times amongst other international publications. Additionally, her short stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine and The Kenyon Review Online.

Atif Eisa: production coordinator/co-producer is the founder and manager of The Media Group, Gaza City, Palestine.  Trained as a broadcast engineer, Atif's company provies media production services to international broadcasters including the BBC.  During Operation Cast Lead the company proviced crews and services 24/7/  The company has an extensive archive with thousands of hours of footage covering all key news events in Gaza.  The resource will be available to all productions.

Atif Eisa

www.mediagroup.ps

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