Forum Dvorah Experts

Dr Amira Halperin is a Senior Research Associate at BICOM – Britain Israel

Communications and Research Centre. She is the co - deputy editor of BICOM’s

Fathom Journal. Dr Halperin is a collaborator with The University of British

Columbia Centre for Migration Studies. Amira has been working in the UK,

Canada, China, and Israel, both as a Broadcast Journalist, and as a University

Professor. Currently, she is based in the UK.

Amira is the author of the book ‘The Use of New Media by the Palestinian

Diaspora in the United Kingdom’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). She is

the first ever Israeli researcher who conducted research on the Palestinians in the

Diaspora.

Dr Halperin is an international media commentator, and has been interviewed on

Palestinian affairs, radicalisation online, racism, freedom of speech, refugee policy,

and media. She worked as an Investigative Broadcast Journalist for large media

organisations, including BBC Television, ‘Panorama’ programme, where she

investigated Islamist radicalisation in the UK.

Dr Halperin obtained an MA in International Journalism, and a PhD in

Communication and Media from the Communication and Media Research

Institute, University of Westminster, London, UK.