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Marwa Fatafta
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03 · Background
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Palestinian writer, researcher, and policy analyst; MENA Policy and Advocacy Director at Access Now, leading the organisation's digital-rights work across the Middle East and North Africa since 2020 from her base in Berlin. The principal Palestinian-diaspora policy voice in the corpus's Access Now senior staff and the named Arabic-language anchor on platform-accountability, surveillance, and tech-in-armed-conflict in the make-AI-good movement's MENA register — paired in Access Now's leadership of the corpus's digital-rights coalition with Felicia Anthonio's internet-shutdowns register.
Originally from Hebron and Berlin-based since 2017, Fatafta carries a Palestinian-diaspora biography across English, Arabic, and the German policy context. She holds a BA in English from Birzeit University (2003–2007), was a Fulbright scholar to the US and holds an MA in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (2009–2011), and a second Master's in Development and Governance from the University of Duisburg-Essen (2014). Before joining Access Now, she was Communications Manager at the British Consulate-General in Jerusalem (2011–2014) and MENA Regional Advisor at Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin (2017–2020), where she coordinated regional and global efforts to mainstream gender into anti-corruption policy and norms.
Access Now portfolio
Fatafta's published focus areas at Access Now span content governance and platform accountability, online censorship, digital surveillance, and transnational repression, with substantial published output on the digital occupation in Palestine and the role of new technologies in armed conflicts and humanitarian contexts. The platform-accountability portfolio is the most public-facing strand: in her Tech Policy Press interview on Meta's handling of Palestinian voices she frames the central asymmetry as "Meta over moderates Palestine-related content, especially in Arabic language" while "under-moderates hate speech" — the substantive thesis that organises Access Now's MENA-region engagement with platform-governance institutions through Meta's Oversight Board, the EU Digital Services Act, and the UN multi-stakeholder tracks. On surveillance her on-record framing is that "authoritarian governments and oppressive regimes use the same tactics — they all have the same oppressive handbook", which anchors her policy work across spyware export controls, mass-surveillance regulation, and the Pegasus, Predator, and adjacent commercial-spyware-targeting tracks. Her published authorship of the Internet freedoms in Palestine: Mapping of digital rights violations and threats report — through 7amleh in cooperation with the Association for Progressive Communications, framed by APC as "the first of its kind on the Palestinian level" — anchors the substantive Palestine digital-rights research register she carries alongside the Access Now policy track. Her public-output line runs through +972 Magazine, Rest of World, Al Jazeera, and the Arabic-language press; she also speaks regularly at RightsCon and on the UN, EU, and German federal policy circuits.
External affiliations
Beyond Access Now, Fatafta sits on the Editorial Committee and as a Policy Member of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network — the diaspora-Palestinian policy network on global policy, information and technology, Palestinian politics and governance, and the Arab world — and on the Board of Advisors of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), the Washington-based MENA policy organisation. She is an advisory committee member for Bread&Net, the Beirut-based annual MENA digital-rights gathering run by SMEX, and an advisory-board member of 7amleh — the Palestinian-led Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media that anchors much of the substantive Palestine-digital-rights research field she draws on at Access Now. The cluster of advisory roles is the connective tissue between the Palestinian-civil-society digital-rights field, the Arabic-language MENA-wide digital-rights field, and the international platform-accountability and surveillance-policy field that Access Now's policy work runs at — and is the substantive reason the senior MENA seat at Access Now sits with a diaspora-Palestinian holder rooted in those communities rather than with a Brussels- or Washington-anchored policy generalist.
04 · Sources
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accessnow.org
Checked 2026-05-18Access Now's own staff-profile page for Fatafta — primary source for her current title "MENA Policy and Advocacy Director at Access Now", the framing that she "leads Access Now's policy and advocacy work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region", her focus areas (content governance and platform accountability, online censorship, digital surveillance, transnational repression, the digital occupation in Palestine, technology's role in armed conflicts and humanitarian contexts, impact on marginalized and oppressed communities), her current advisory affiliations (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network as Policy Analyst, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy advisory board, Bread&Net advisory committee), her education (Fulbright scholar; MA International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University; MA Development and Governance from University of Duisburg-Essen), and her X / Twitter handle @marwasf
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al-shabaka.org
Checked 2026-05-18Al-Shabaka Policy Network profile for Fatafta — primary source for her Policy Member status and Editorial Committee role, her self-description as a "Palestinian writer, researcher, and policy analyst currently based in Berlin", her focus areas (Global Policy on Palestine, Information & Technology, Palestinian Politics & Governance, the Arab World), her prior role as MENA Regional Advisor at Transparency International Secretariat, her board membership of 7amleh, and her on-record framing of surveillance as a common authoritarian tactic ("authoritarian governments and oppressive regimes use the same tactics. They all have the same oppressive handbook")
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timep.org
Checked 2026-05-18Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy author / advisor page for Fatafta — primary source for her position as a Member of TIMEP's Board of Advisors, her Berlin base, her expertise areas in content moderation, platform accountability, surveillance, and data protection in the MENA region, and the parallel Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst and former Transparency International MENA Regional Advisor roles
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wikidata.org
Checked 2026-05-18Wikidata structured record for Fatafta — secondary source for her Palestinian citizenship, her Hebron origin, her 1980s birth window, her current Berlin residence (since 2017), her employment trajectory (British Consulate-General Jerusalem Communications Manager 2011-2014; Transparency International 2017-2020; Access Now since 2020), her education record (BA in English from Birzeit University 2003-2007; MA in International Relations from Syracuse University 2009-2011; Master's in Governance from the University of Duisburg-Essen 2014), her listed languages (Arabic, English), her listed occupations (researcher, writer, political analyst, political scientist, human rights defender), and her membership of 7amleh
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7amleh.org
Checked 2026-05-187amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media — primary source for the organisation Fatafta sits on the advisory board of, the body of work it publishes on tech-platform complicity in violence against Palestinians, and the substantive Palestine digital-rights register that overlaps Fatafta's published output
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972mag.com
Checked 2026-05-18+972 Magazine author page for Fatafta — primary source for her recurring published commentary on Israeli surveillance of Palestinians, platform moderation of Palestinian and Arabic-language content, and the digital dimensions of the occupation; +972 Magazine is one of the principal independent Israeli-Palestinian publications she carries her public writing in
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restofworld.org
Checked 2026-05-18Rest of World author page for Fatafta — secondary source for her tech-journalism register beyond +972 Magazine and the Arabic-language press, situating her published output in the global tech-and-society publication landscape
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techpolicy.press
Checked 2026-05-18Tech Policy Press interview with Fatafta on Meta moderation of Palestinian content — primary source for her on-record critique that "Meta over moderates Palestine-related content, especially in Arabic language" while "under-moderates hate speech", the framing of the platform-accountability portfolio she anchors at Access Now, and the specific Arabic-language asymmetry that organises her content-moderation work
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apc.org
Checked 2026-05-18Association for Progressive Communications announcement of Fatafta's 7amleh-published "Internet freedoms in Palestine: Mapping of digital rights violations and threats" — primary source for her authorship of the report, the framing of the report as "the first of its kind on the Palestinian level", and the APC-7amleh cooperation context in which she has published on Palestinian digital rights
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me-policy.org
Checked 2026-05-18Middle East Policy Platform profile of Fatafta (December 2020) — secondary corroboration of her then-recent Access Now MENA Policy Manager appointment, the Palestinian / Berlin biographical frame, the Transparency International prior role, and the Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst track she carried into Access Now
Source: entities/persons/person-marwa-fatafta.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.