Rhana Natour

Jul 23, 2024 | magazine.atavist.com | Rhana Natour

Layan Albaz lost her legs in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. To learn how to walk again, she had to travel more than 6,000 miles from everything she knew. The Atavist Magazine, No. 153Rhana Natour is an award-winning journalist and video producer. Her stories have aired on PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera English, More Perfect Union, and Scripps News. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The Guardian and Vice News.

Mar 29, 2024 | substack.perfectunion.us | Rhana Natour

By Rhana NatourIn 2021, Minneapolis experienced what federal prosecutors called a campaign of extreme and "utterly gratuitous" violence against Uber and Lyft drivers. In less than two months, a criminal enterprise of four men used the rideshare apps to rob and carjack at least 13 drivers. These safety concerns and demands for better pay and benefits have spurred a political rebellion by Minnesota rideshare drivers that is roiling the state's political establishment.

Feb 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Rhana Natour

When the comedian Bassem Youssef arrives on stage for a sold-out show in Washington DC, four young women wearing keffiyehs bow their heads and begin waving their hands up and down as if he is a divine being. The 49-year-old, who first found fame with a satirical show panning the Egyptian regime, is on the US leg of his Middle Beast tour.

Dec 21, 2023 | theguardian.com | Rhana Natour

Hani Almadhoun braces himself whenever he hears his iPhone ping, the sound now a harbinger of bad news from his family in Gaza. On Thanksgiving, it was a Facebook notification with a message that his 17-year old nephew had been shot in the head by a sniper. A Telegram alert was how Almadhoun learned that his brother Mahmoud was taken by the IDF. He spotted him in a photo, blindfolded and stripped down to his underwear. As the war continued, the bad news seemed to get closer.

Dec 10, 2023 | eldiario.es | Rhana Natour

Hace siete años, una ONG, un equipo de cirujanos craneofaciales y una comunidad de familias de acogida de Shreveport (en el estado de Luisiana, Estados Unidos) hicieron lo imposible para que Farid y Qoosay Salout, dos hermanos de Gaza que sufrían un trastorno médico raro, pudieran viajar a Estados Unidos y ser operados. Las operaciones fueron un éxito rotundo.