Famagusta, Cyprus. Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad is scheduled to visit Cyprus next month and speak at Famagusta’s Eastern Mediterranean University, where she studied.
Visit and campus talk
Alaqad will give a talk at Eastern Mediterranean University on Monday at the campus’ Mustafa Afsin Ersoy hall at 11.30am. She graduated from the university in 2022.
Work and background
Alaqad gained wider recognition in 2023 for daily on-the-ground coverage of the Gaza war via social media, and later wrote for British newspaper the Guardian and news website ITV. As the war intensified, she fled to Egypt and later relocated to Australia, where she wrote a book titled The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience.
Will you attend Plestia Alaqad’s talk at Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta?
