Alena Jabarine

is German-Palestinian and was born in Hamburg in 1985. She studied political science and international relations in Hamburg and Barcelona and then completed her traineeship at NDR. Since then, she has worked as a freelance journalist for various media and lived in Ramallah for three years from 2020, where she worked for the Palestine office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Jabarine is the daughter of a German mother and a Palestinian-Israeli father.