Bread&Net 2022

Marwa Fatafta leads Access Now’s work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa region as the MENA Policy and Advocacy Manager. She has written extensively on the intersection of technology and human rights including content moderation, freedom of expression, data protection, and surveillance tech. Marwa is a member of Bread&Net's Advisory Committee. She is also a Policy Analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. Before joining Access Now, Marwa worked as the MENA Regional Advisor at Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin and coordinated regional and global efforts to mainstream gender into anti-corruption policies and norms. Marwa was a Fulbright scholar to the US, and holds an MA in International Relations from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She holds a second MA in Development and Governance from University of Duisburg-Essen.

Khalid Ibrahim is the Executive Director of the Gulf Centre for human
rights (GCHR) in charge of management, programme development, fundraising and
training. He is an Iraqi human right defender with decades of experience
in the human rights field, including more than ten years in Dublin a
staff of Frontline Defenders. There, he had the chance to work on human
rights issues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In
2011, he decided to focus on human rights in the Gulf region and
neighbouring countries. He co-founded the Gulf Center for Human Rights
(GCHR).

Raed Jarrar is an Arab-American political advocate based in Washington, DC. Since he immigrated to the U.S. in 2005, he has worked as a lobbyist on political issues pertaining to the U.S. engagement in the Arab world.

Widely recognized as an expert on political, social, and economic developments in the MENA region, he has testified in numerous Congressional hearings and briefings. He is a frequent guest on national and international media outlets in Arabic and English, including CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and Sky News Arabia. He has been published in the New York Times and quoted in media outlets including the Washington Post, Al Jazeera, the Hill, the Guardian, Newsweek, and more.

Raed was raised in countries all across the Middle East. He is a graduate of the University of Baghdad, where he received his Bachelor's Degree, and the University of Jordan, where he received his Master's Degree, both in architectural engineering. His Master's thesis focused on post-war reconstruction. He is on the Advisory Board of the organization Airwars.