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The 2023 Hilda B. Silverman Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the CMES Middle East Forum and the Religion and Public Life's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative (Harvard Divinity School), presents
Amira Hass
Journalist, Haaretz
Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories where she has lived for thirty years as the only Jewish Israeli journalist. Ms. Hass joined Haaretz in 1989 and began reporting from the West Bank and Gaza in 1991. In 1993 she assumed a full-time position with Haaretz and moved to the Gaza Strip, then under direct Israeli occupation, where she lived for three years. In 1997 Ms. Hass moved to Ramallah where she still lives.
In 2019-20, she was a Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School.
Amira Hass was born in Jerusalem and educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studied the history of Nazism and the European Left’s relation to the Holocaust.
Her book Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege is an account of her three-year period living in Gaza. This book tells the history, plight and struggles of Gazans since 1948 and especially after the beginning of Israel’s occupation in 1967. First published in Hebrew and subsequently in English, the book has also been translated into several languages. Her other books include Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land and Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944–1945 based on her mother, Hannah Levy-Hass’ 1946 memoir.
Amira Hass has been the recipient of several awards, including the World Press Freedom Hero award from the International Press Institute, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award, Reporters Without Borders Prize for Press Freedom, and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
Contact: Liz Flanagan