Afnan Kanaaneh

A master’s student in Communication Studies at the University of Haifa and a former teaching assistant in the department. Her research interests lie at the intersections of media, language, power, translation, gender, nationalism, technology, and globalization.    
She seeks to bridge research and activism through collaboration with local Palestinian human rights organizations inside the Green Line, including Mada al-Carmel, Assiwar, 7amleh, I‘lam, and Adalah. Her work involves conducting, writing, and publishing field-based research, policy papers, materials, and campaigns addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence, surveillance, online repression against Palestinians, visual violence, children’s and youth digital safety in conflict and humanitarian settings, and the conditions, practices, and suppression of Palestinian journalistic work under systems of control.