Yafa Jarrar(Is this your profile?)

Yafa Jarrar was born in Jerusalem and raised in the Occupied Palestinian city of Ramallah. She moved to Canada in 2003 to attend Lester B. Pearson College of the pacific. Yafa completed her Bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies and Political Studies from Trent University, and her ma in Political Science from Carleton University. Influenced by her own lived experience and upbringing under Israeli Military Occupation and Apartheid policies, where she witnessed the arrests of both her parents numerous times, and endured the effects of torture on her father in Israeli military prisons, Yafa became involved in social and global justice activism at a very young age. Yafa’s current research focuses on resistance literature and the role of the intellectual within liberation movements.