Ramzy Baroud

رمزي بارود

Born: Gaza, Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Domain: Journalism & Media

Recognition: GLOBAL

Biography

Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian-American journalist, author, and historian whose long career has centered on building an alternative, people-centered narrative of Palestinian history and contemporary life. Born in a refugee family in the Gaza Strip in 1972, he carried the experience of displacement into a body of work that consistently privileges lived testimony over elite political frameworks. Baroud is best known as the founder and editor of The Palestine Chronicle, an English-language publication he has led since 1999, which became a durable platform for Palestinian commentary and analysis. His editorial path also took him through senior roles in major outlets: he served as a deputy managing editor at Al Jazeera online, editor-in-chief of the Brunei Times, and managing editor of Middle East Eye, giving him an unusually broad footprint across Arab and international media. A prolific columnist, his writing is syndicated and translated into numerous languages and appears regularly in outlets such as Arab News. He holds a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and has taught mass communication at Curtin University, blending scholarship with journalism in a way that has made him a frequent commentator on settler colonialism, refugees, and resistance. He is the author of several books, including My Father Was a Freedom Fighter, a Gaza family memoir, and The Last Earth, a collection of Palestinian oral histories, works that exemplify his commitment to documenting Palestinian experience from the ground up. Through these projects he has helped popularize a methodology of people's history within journalism about Palestine. Baroud matters as a bridge between journalism and historiography, an editor and author who built an enduring independent platform and championed a narrative approach rooted in ordinary Palestinian voices.

Why This Person Matters

Founder and editor of The Palestine Chronicle and a veteran of Al Jazeera and Middle East Eye, he built an enduring independent platform and pioneered a people's-history approach to journalism about Palestine.