Interview With Jennifer Loewenstein November 16, 2018

Jennifer Loewenstein is a lecturer in contemporary Middle Eastern History at Penn State University. She is also an activist for Palestinian Human Rights, a freelance journalist and writer.

During the summers of 1999, 2000, & 2001 Jennifer lived and worked in the Bourj al-Barajneh Refugee camp in South Beirut, Lebanon. In 2002 Jennifer moved to the Gaza Strip during the peak years of the Second Palestinian Intifada & interned at the Mezan Center for Human Rights based in Gaza City and Rafah. Jennifer was among a handful of foreign journalists who were able to visit the besieged and destroyed Jenin refugee camp in early April 2002—the day the Israeli army withdrew.
In December, 2002, Jennifer founded the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project—a highly successful international & local activist group. In 2005-2006 Jennifer was a Fellow at the Refugee Studies Center at Oxford University and after returning home Jennifer became the Associate Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin (2007-2014). In July, 2010 she was the recipient of the Rachel Corrie Award at the annual ADC convention. Today Jennifer lives in Boalsburg, PA and has begun research on a new project on regional Palestinian politics.

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