Muhammad Shehada
Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Palestine, human rights, armed conflict
Languages
Arabic, English
Biography
Muhammad Shehada is a visiting fellow with ECFR’s Middle East and North Africa programme. He is a Gazan researcher, writer, and human rights advocate. His work focuses on investigating human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank, and more broadly in the Middle East and Europe, with an emphasis on the treatment of migrants, refugees, and civilians in conflict zones.
He is currently serving as the chief of communications and programmes at the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. He has contributed to a wide range of international publications such as The Forward, Al Jazeera, Newsweek, The Nation, and The New Arab.
Shehada holds a BA in computer engineering from the Islamic University of Gaza and pursued advanced studies in international development at Lund University in Sweden and security risk management at Copenhagen University in Denmark.
