Rula Jebreal

Rula Jebreal
رولا جبريل
Jebreal in September 2017
Born	(1973-04-24) April 24, 1973 (age 51) Haifa, Israel
Nationality	Palestinian
Citizenship	Israeli, Italian^[1]
Alma mater	University of Bologna
Occupation(s)	Journalist, commentator, author
Children	Miral Rivalta^[2]
Website	Official Web site

External videos
Jebreal on her secret interview with Jamal Khashoggi

Rula Jebreal (Arabic: رولا جبريل, Hebrew: רולא ג'בריל; born April 24, 1973) is a Palestinian^[3]^[4] foreign policy analyst, journalist, novelist and screenwriter with dual Israeli and Italian citizenship. She was a commentator for MSNBC.^[5]

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Early life and education

Jebreal was born in Haifa, Israel, to Nigeria-born Sufi imam Othman Jebreal and Zakia, and grew up in Jerusalem.^[6] Her father was an imam and groundskeeper at Al-Aqsa.^[6] Her mother, who suffered from severe abuse in her childhood, committed suicide by walking into the sea and drowning when Jebreal was 5.^[7]^[8] She and her sister Rania were put into the Dar El-Tifel orphanage by their father,^[7]^[8] in 1978, until 1991. She was raised in the orphanage, and regards its founder, Hind Husseini, as her teacher and mother, crediting her with saving her life.^[9]

In 1993, she received a scholarship from the Italian government to study at the University of Bologna, where she graduated with a degree in physiotherapy.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Journalism

Jebreal worked as a journalist in Italy for twelve years. In 2006 she worked with Michele Santoro as an interviewer on AnnoZero, a political television show in Italy.^[10]

Books and films

Jebreal's first novel Miral was published in 2003. The film version, adapted by Jebreal, and directed by Julian Schnabel, was first released in 2010.^[2]^[7]^[11]

Jebreal's second novel The Bride of Aswan was published in 2007. Her third book, Rejected, is a non-fiction study based on interviews with immigrants who have either made their way to successful careers in Italy or otherwise live on the margins of Italian society.^[12]

Personal life

She has a daughter Miral whose father is artist Davide Rivalta.^[13]

Her collaboration with Julian Schnabel on Miral, extended beyond the movie. Jebreal was in a relationship with him from 2007 to 2011.^[14]^[15]^[16]

In 2013, she married Arthur Altschul, Jr., son of banker Arthur Goodhart Altschul Sr. and a member of the Lehman family. She divorced Altschul in 2016 and started dating Roger Waters, founder of Pink Floyd.^[17]

She is fluent in four languages: Arabic, Hebrew, English and Italian.^[18] She describes herself as a "secular Muslim".^[19]

Works

La strada dei fiori di Miral, BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2005, ISBN 978-88-17-00850-1
- Miral. Translated by John Cullen. Penguin. 2010. ISBN 978-0-14-311619-6.
- Ørkenblomsten, Engelstad forl., 2005, ISBN 978-82-92533-10-9
- Miral – Ein Land. Drei Frauen. Ein gemeinsamer Traum, Translated Leon Mengden, Btb, 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-74148-9
La sposa di Assuan, (Bride of Aswan) Rizzoli, 2005, ISBN 978-88-17-00867-9
- La promise d'Assouan, Translated Lucie Comparini, Altal éd., 2007, ISBN 978-2-916736-04-4
- A esposa de Assuão, Campo das Letras, 2007, ISBN 978-989-625-237-3
Divieto di soggiorno: l'Italia vista con gli occhi dei suoi immigrati, (Rejected) Milan, Italy: Rizzoli, 2007, ISBN 978-88-17-01270-6