Zahera Harb

Political Communication & Strategic Advisor

Zahera is the director of Postgraduate Studies and leader of the International Journalism Studies cluster in the Journalism Department of City St George’s, University of London.

Her recent work with Thomson has seen her act as a consultant on the She Speaks Sudan project, a training and mentoring programme for Sudanese women journalists and civil society actors living in exile.

She is chair of the board of directors at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and has written extensively on conflicts in the Middle East as well as on propaganda and the use of communication practices in Lebanon and Palestine. She also sits on the boards of the UK’s Press Recognition Panel and the Marie Colvin Journalists Network.