Nooran Alhamdan

Nooran Alhamdan is a Palestinian-American graduate of economics and political science at the University of New Hampshire.

Recent Articles
Nooran Alhamdan, along with other students at Georgetown University, hold up photos of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to protest U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's commencement speech at their graduation ceremony, May 21, 2022. (Kannithi Traitonwong)
Blinken congratulated me on graduating. I confronted him about Shireen Abu Akleh
When we heard the U.S. state secretary would be at our ceremony, we decided to protest for a murdered Palestinian journalist. Here’s what happened.
By Nooran Alhamdan May 27, 2022
Jerash camp
In Jerash refugee camp, lockdown means ‘living without eating’
Palestinian refugees in Jordan’s Jerash camp were already suffering from severe poverty and public health challenges. Then COVID-19 hit.
By Nooran Alhamdan May 12, 2020
Bernie Sanders at a campaign event in Des Moines, made up largely of students and young adults asking about issues ranging from education to immigration to crime to child care, 27 September 2015. (Phil Roeder/Wikimedia Commons)
I’m Palestinian American, and Bernie Sanders has my vote
The movement behind Sanders will not only bring radical change to millions of Americans, but will ensure that Palestinian rights no longer go unnoticed.
By Nooran Alhamdan March 1, 2020
Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian youth during a protest against Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Hebron, West Bank, December 7, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
For Bibi and Trump, peace means Palestinian submission
To say that Israel has 'yearned for peace' since its creation is to utterly deny the state's violent legacy.
By Nooran Alhamdan January 29, 2020
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  2. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen
  3. ‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across West Bank
  4. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  5. The unexceptional violence of Israel’s ‘Haredi battalion’
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