Rula Jebreal
Place of Birth: Haifa, Israel
Date of Birth: April 24, 1973
Ethnicity: Palestinian Arab, some Nigerian
Rula Jebreal is a foreign policy analyst, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She has dual Israeli and Italian citizenship.
Rula’s father, Othman Jebreal, a Nigerian-born imam, was of Palestinian Arab and Nigerian descent. Rula’s mother, Zakia, who was a Palestinian Arab, died when Rula was five years old.
Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.nypost.com
http://www.interviewmagazine.com
http://www.azcentral.com
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Thanks for approving her.
About the “some Nigerian” part, she does look like she’d have African in her due to her very dark skin. But it’s said that her father is “Nigerian born”. What would his actual ethnicity be? I do not know…..