Ziad worked for several media companies as a producer, director and host. He was a founder of PBC (Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation). He is a professor of broadcast journalism and Head of Media at UN radio in Sudan and a trainer at Tunisian National radio, and a member of PCIIS (Palestinian Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society – PLO). He was Head of the Palestinian team of ‘Breaking the Ice’ – Palestinian-Israeli Peace mission to Antarctica, and was awarded a Sport Diplomacy Award in 2004 by SFGC (Search for Common Ground). He has a PhD degree in Mass Communication and is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, English and Spanish.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.