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Mona El-Farra is an inspiring individual. This modest and unassuming woman seems to have innumerable projects up her sleeve, ranging from her physician work at the Gazan branch of the Palestine Red Crescent Society to her role as Health Development consultant with the Union of Health Workers Committee.

On her website profile, Ms. El-Farra writes that she is “… a physician by training, a human rights and women’s rights activist by practice.” To her credit, she has the experience to back it up. Not only has Ms. El-Farra directly worked to improve the situation in Gaza through her physician work, she has also toured the United States advocating for human rights in Palestine, appearing at venues as diverse as Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! and various American university campuses.

I first came across Ms. El-Farra in 2006, when I discovered her blog: From Gaza, With Love. Since then, I have followed her blog journey, though the frustration of military occupation and the devastating realities of everyday life in Gaza… and I was delighted to interview her the other night. (more…)