Handala Participants 2025

Waad Aal Musa is an Iraqi-American journalist and accomplished cameraman currently working with Al Jazeera. With over 22 years of experience in the field, he has covered hundreds of major global events, bringing critical stories to audiences around the world. Waad holds a Master’s degree in Cinema from New York City, combining his artistic vision

Chloé is a former United Nations staff member and scientist. She resigned from the UN to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and break the institutional silence, as Palestinians in Gaza continue to be bombed, starved, and erased by Israel and their allies with impunity and under the watch of the very institutions meant to protect

Teacher, peace researcher, and journalist committed to peace, militarization, the environment, human rights, and the fight against mafia crime. He worked in different cooperative projects in Albania, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Colombia, Brasil, Cuba, Uruguay, Guatemala and Honduras. He received the “G. Bassani – Italia Nostra 2010” Award for journalism and, in 2013, the second national

Antonio La Picirella was born in Bari in 1990 and raised within the social justice movements of Southern Italy. After spending time in Northern Europe as an active member of the Berlin Migrant Strikers, he moved to America. He was present at the Tijuana border in 2018 during the Honduran exodus, and later in Chiapas

Tan  (Tania)  was born in Gadigal country to parents who fled Lebanon after surviving the Israeli invasions in the 70s and 80s. They are a documentary film maker who has worked with NGOs fighting against human rights abuses, child trafficking, sex slavery, deaths in custody and more. They have lived in Palestinian and Syrian refugee

Hatem Aouini, 50 years old, Tunisian, Father of Nidhal 20 years and to Yasmine 13 years, is an Internationalist activist; fighter for Palestine, Anti Imperialism, Anti Zionism and Anti Facsism.  He is a trade unionist and fighter for workers and peasants rights and for social justice. Hatem Aouini is a member of PPDS Tunisia political

My name is Gabrielle Cathala, I am 33 years old. I was elected as a Member of Parliament to the National Assembly in July 2024. Before becoming an MP with La France insoumise, I worked for a French NGO in Haiti (December 2016 – August 2017), served as a humanitarian attaché and civil society project

Emma Fourreau (born 1999 in France) is a French-Swedish politician, environmental activist and member of La France Insoumise (LFI). She is the youngest French Member of the European Parliament and began her term on 16 July 2024, having been elected in June 2024 on LFI’s list. She co-founded the marine conservation NGO Sang Océan and

DR. FRANK ROMANO earned a PhD at University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, and a JD at Golden Gate University, Faculty of Law, San Francisco. He is a retired Maître de conférences (assistant tenured professor) at the Université Paris Nanterre in the Anglo-American Literature and Civilization Department, where he taught international law and literature, a