Media Appearances

Explore interviews, podcasts, panels, and media conversations where Yara Asi shares expertise on global health, conflict, human rights, and policy.

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Media Appearances

Selected television interviews, podcasts, public conversations, academic lectures, webinars, and recorded panels exploring health, war, human rights, and the Palestinian experience.

AJ 2024
Al Jazeera · The Stream

Can Gaza’s Vaccination Drive Stop the Spread of Polio?

A discussion about Gaza’s vaccination campaign, damaged health infrastructure, displacement, and barriers to medical access.

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PBS 2024
WUCF PBS

Global Perspectives — Dr. Yara M. Asi

An in-depth conversation about global health, Palestinian health, conflict, human rights, and public scholarship.

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CNN 2024
CNN

Rebuilding Gaza After the War

Yara discusses the humanitarian, public-health, infrastructure, and reconstruction challenges facing Gaza.

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Arab Center Washington DC

The Gaza War and the Role of the International Community

A conference discussion examining the political, legal, humanitarian, and public-health implications of the war.

Global Alliance on War, Conflict and Health

How War Kills: Webinar and Book Preview

Yara introduces her book and explains the overlooked ways war damages health beyond direct battlefield violence.

NBC News

Top Story with Tom Llamas

A television segment providing humanitarian and public-health context during the escalating crisis in Gaza.

World Beyond War

Palestinian Health and Human Rights Under Occupation

A discussion of how occupation, movement restrictions, political structures, and inequality affect Palestinian health.

Health Workers Alliance for Palestine

The Crisis in Palestine: Field Notes From a Health Perspective

An analysis of healthcare access, public health, displacement, and human rights during the Palestinian crisis.

JHU-UPF Public Policy Center

Health Inequity and Medical Apartheid in Palestine

A lecture about unequal medical access, movement restrictions, structural discrimination, and Palestinian health.

LECTURE 2022
Medical University of South Carolina

Health Crisis of War

A recorded lecture explaining why armed conflict should be recognized as a major global public-health priority.

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AJ 2021
Al Jazeera · The Stream

How Is Life for Palestinians Facing Coronavirus?

A discussion of occupation, vaccine access, economic pressures, and daily life for Palestinians during the pandemic.

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Indus News

Vaccine Diplomacy

A conversation about vaccine distribution, international politics, health diplomacy, and inequality during COVID-19.

American Friends Service Committee

COVID-19 in Palestine

A webinar examining how occupation, healthcare restrictions, and economic conditions shaped Palestine’s pandemic experience.

The New Arab

COVID-19 Vaccine in MENA

A panel about vaccine distribution, public trust, health inequality, and pandemic policy across the MENA region.

Palestine Deep Dive

Occupation in the Time of COVID-19

A panel examining how occupation and movement restrictions increased Palestinian vulnerability during the pandemic.

Colorado Center for Freedom and Justice

A Tale of Two COVID-19 Responses: Israel and Palestine

A comparison of pandemic policies, healthcare systems, vaccination access, and health outcomes.

American University Washington College of Law

COVID-19 in a Humanitarian Crisis

A webinar about the pandemic’s effects on refugees and internally displaced communities in Syria and Yemen.

Palestine Deep Dive

Gaza

A recorded panel examining Gaza’s humanitarian, healthcare, political, economic, and human-rights conditions.

Palestine Deep Dive

Palestine and COVID-19

A discussion of pandemic risks, healthcare limitations, economic pressures, occupation, and community responses.

PANEL 2020
Al-Shabaka Policy Lab

Coronavirus in Palestine

A policy discussion about Indigenous health, structural vulnerability, occupation, and inequality during the pandemic.

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PANEL 2022
Arab Center Washington DC

The Future of Human Security

A public conversation on economic crises, violence, health emergencies, food insecurity, and the future of human security.

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PANEL 2022
Arab Center Washington DC

Do Arab Women Have Reason to Celebrate International Women’s Day?

A panel examining women’s rights, representation, political participation, and continuing inequalities across the Arab world.

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PANEL 2022
Brown University

Climate Change and Displacement

A discussion of displacement experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East under accelerating climate pressures.

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PANEL 2021
Arab Center Washington DC

Weapons Sales in the Middle East

A discussion of arms sales, economic priorities, geopolitical competition, and the human costs of militarization in the region.

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PANEL 2021
Arab Center Washington DC

Reconstruction in Gaza

A panel on rebuilding Gaza amid siege, political constraints, international funding, and persistent humanitarian needs.

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PANEL 2021
Council for Arab-British Understanding

The Middle East and COVID-19

An online panel exploring public-health systems, political pressures, inequality, and pandemic responses across the Middle East.

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FORUM 2021
Webster University Geneva

Equal Access to Healthcare in the MENA Region

A regional forum focused on healthcare access, inequality, institutional barriers, and human rights across the Middle East and North Africa.

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FORUM 2021
Bologna Peacebuilding Forum

Food (in)Security and Climate Change in the Mediterranean

A conversation about food insecurity, climate pressures, regional vulnerability, migration, and peacebuilding across the Mediterranean.

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PANEL 2021
Middle East Policy Council

The Impact of Climate Change on the Middle East

A panel examining environmental change, displacement, resource insecurity, governance, and regional policy challenges.

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WEBINAR 2021
Foundation for Middle East Peace

COVID Vaccinations Under Occupation

A webinar on vaccine access, health inequality, political responsibility, and medical restrictions affecting Palestinians.

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RADIO 2021
Top of Mind with Julie Rose · BYU Radio

Vaccine Passports

A radio conversation examining the practical, ethical, and policy questions surrounding vaccine passport systems.

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RADIO 2021
WNPR · Where We Live

Vaccine Passports Could Be Coming

A public-radio discussion about vaccine certification, reopening, privacy, equity, and public-health policy.

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WJXT 2021
The Morning Show · WJXT

Are COVID Vaccine Passports Really Viable?

A television interview considering whether vaccine passports are workable, ethical, equitable, and useful for public health.

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PODCAST 2021
What’s At Stake

Vaccine Passports… Coming to America?

A podcast conversation on vaccination documentation, public policy, individual rights, and reopening during the pandemic.

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RADIO 2021
Let’s Go There with Shira & Ryan

Vaccine Passports

A radio conversation about vaccine documentation, access, public trust, and the social implications of pandemic policy.

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RADIO 2021
PRI · The World

Palestinians Say Israel Must Help Vaccinate

A radio segment examining vaccine responsibility, unequal access, occupation, and Palestinian public-health needs.

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AUDIO 2021
Arab Center Washington DC

Vaccinations in Israel and Palestine

An audio discussion of vaccine inequality, political responsibility, healthcare access, and pandemic policy.

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PODCAST 2021
IMEU

This Is Palestine

A podcast appearance exploring Palestinian life, politics, health, human rights, and the broader realities of occupation.

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WEBINAR 2020
Arab Center Washington DC

COVID-19 and Conflicts in the Arab World

A webinar examining how the pandemic intersected with conflict and humanitarian crises in Libya, Syria, and Yemen.

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Press Archive

Written Media

Selected reporting, interviews, commentary, and expert contributions featuring Yara’s work on health, conflict, Palestine, climate, and humanitarian policy.

2022 The Intercept

Israeli Raids in the West Bank Push Palestinians to Brink Again

2022 Vox

Israel Votes. Palestine Is Under Siege.

2022 L’Orient-Le Jour

Naplouse, Jénine, Shuafat: Les Nouveaux Visages de la Résistance Palestinienne

2022 The Brown Daily Herald

Climate Panel Invites Experts on Gender, Migration, Climate Change

2021 Al Jazeera

As Israel Threatens Power Cuts, How Can Palestine Pay Its Bills?

2021 Al Jazeera

‘Dangerous and Delusional’: Critics Denounce Saudi Climate Plan

2021 Register Citizen

The Deepening Costs of Four Gaza Wars in 13 Years, in Four Charts

2021 Esglobal

¿Cómo Reconstruir Gaza?

2021 The Conversation US

The Ethical Questions Raised by COVID-19 Vaccines: Five Essential Reads

2021 Al Jazeera

After Gaza Ceasefire: ‘What’s Biden’s Plan? There’s Zero Plan’

2021 Middle East Eye

US Discourse Is Shifting on Israel-Palestine but Policy Yet to Change

2021 Al Jazeera

US Must Put ‘Brakes on the Israelis’ as Violence Rises

2021 Inter Press Service

Palestinians Are Suffering from Hunger, Poverty, Conflict and a Global Pandemic

2021 Honolulu Civil Beat

A Hawaii ‘Vaccine Passport’ Could Open the Door to Weddings, Concerts and More Tourism

2021 Al Jazeera

Palestinians Condemn Israel’s Move to Send Vaccines Overseas

2021 Forward

What’s the Deal with Israel, Palestinians and the Vaccine?

2021 OPEN

Il Successo di Israele? Vaccinazioni Sette Giorni su Sette

2021 Diari de Barcelona

Palestina, a l’Ombra de la Vacunació Israeliana

2021 VICE World News

Israel Is Vaccinating ‘Everyone’—Besides These Five Million People

2021 Danwatch

Israel Nægter at Vaccinere Millioner af Palæstinensere

2021 Ahram Online

Measuring a Response

2020 The Nation

A COVID Christmas in Palestine

2020 The New Humanitarian

UN Seeks to Unblock Medical Access for ‘Trapped’ Palestinians

2020 World Politics Review

Under Lockdown and Occupation, Palestinians Fear a COVID-19 Catastrophe

2020 +972 Magazine

How Palestinians Are Fighting Coronavirus Misinformation

2018 Newsweek

How the Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca Could Help Prevent the Next Global Health Pandemic