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I have three decades of experience reporting on political and cultural realities in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, and I am the author of Dancing in the No Fly Zone. I have served as an editor at New Internationalist and contributed to UNESCO Courier, with work published and broadcast widely from the Middle East to North America and Europe. I am a communications consultant for UN agencies, NGOs, and businesses, and I continue to write, photograph, and speak internationally on culture, heritage, and social development. My work spans journalism, travel writing, documentary storytelling, and cultural criticism, with a focus on resilience, heritage, and artistic resistance in conflict and post-conflict contexts. I aim to bridge scholarship and public discourse through narrative, imagery, and multi-media storytelling.…I have three decades of experience reporting on political and cultural realities in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, and I am the author of Dancing in the No Fly Zone. I have served as an editor at New Internationalist and contributed to UNESCO Courier, with work published and broadcast widely from the Middle East to North America and Europe. I am a communications consultant for UN agencies, NGOs, and businesses, and I continue to write, photograph, and speak internationally on culture, heritage, and social development. My work spans journalism, travel writing, documentary storytelling, and cultural criticism, with a focus on resilience, heritage, and artistic resistance in conflict and post-conflict contexts. I aim to bridge scholarship and public discourse through narrative, imagery, and multi-media storytelling.

Hadani Ditmars

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I have three decades of experience reporting on political and cultural realities in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, and I am the author of Dancing in the No Fly Zone. I have served as an editor at New Internationalist and contributed to UNESCO Courier, with work published and broadcast widely from the Middle East to North America and Europe. I am a communications consultant for UN agencies, NGOs, and businesses, and I continue to write, photograph, and speak internationally on culture, heritage, and social development. My work spans journalism, travel writing, documentary storytelling, and cultural criticism, with a focus on resilience, heritage, and artistic resistance in conflict and post-conflict contexts. I aim to bridge scholarship and public discourse through narrative, imagery, and multi-media storytelling.…I have three decades of experience reporting on political and cultural realities in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, and I am the author of Dancing in the No Fly Zone. I have served as an editor at New Internationalist and contributed to UNESCO Courier, with work published and broadcast widely from the Middle East to North America and Europe. I am a communications consultant for UN agencies, NGOs, and businesses, and I continue to write, photograph, and speak internationally on culture, heritage, and social development. My work spans journalism, travel writing, documentary storytelling, and cultural criticism, with a focus on resilience, heritage, and artistic resistance in conflict and post-conflict contexts. I aim to bridge scholarship and public discourse through narrative, imagery, and multi-media storytelling.

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I have three decades of experience reporting on political and cultural realities in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, and I am the author of Dancing in the No Fly Zone. I have served as an editor at New Internationalist and contributed to UNESCO Courier, with work published and broadcast widely from the Middle East to North America and Europe. I am a communications consultant for UN agencies, NGOs, and businesses, and I continue to write, photograph, and speak internationally on culture, heritage, and social development.

My work spans journalism, travel writing, documentary storytelling, and cultural criticism, with a focus on resilience, heritage, and artistic resistance in conflict and post-conflict contexts. I aim to bridge scholarship and public discourse through narrative, imagery, and multi-media storytelling.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

French

Fluent

Spanish; Castilian

Fluent

German

Advanced

Italian

Intermediate

Portuguese

Intermediate

Arabic

Intermediate

Russian

Beginner

Work Experience

Broadcaster/ Freelance Journalist at CBC

January 1, 1996 - Present

Freelance broadcaster for Dispatches and Foreign Assignment; produced radio features on Basra pre-invasion, Iraqi theatre and other topics; contributor to CBC radio programs.

CBC Contributor at CBC

January 1, 1996 - Present

Freelance broadcaster and writer for Dispatches and Foreign Assignment; produced radio features on pre-invasion Basra, Iraqi theatre, and other cultural topics; contributed to CBC’s programs and opinion pages.

UNESCO Communications Writer at UNESCO (Iraq Office)

January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2022

Contract writer producing copy for UNESCO Iraq on cultural heritage projects linked to refugees and displaced peoples; multiple international media pieces generated from these briefs.