A Decision of My Own
What does self-determination mean when so many choices have already been made for you?
In this Scene48 Reel, Afnan Kanaaneh, an independent researcher in communication and media studies, reflects on growing up both Palestinian and a woman; and on the struggle to claim agency over her voice, body, beliefs, and identity. Amid realities shaped by restriction and violence, she holds on to one choice: deciding what kind of human being she will become.
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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.
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