Rula Jebreal
Jebreal in 2015, photo by Prphotos.com
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 is the daughter of Zakia and Othman Jebreal. Her father was a Nigerian-born imam, who was of Palestinian Arab and Nigerian descent. Her mother was a Palestinian Arab, died when Rula was five years old. She grew up in Jerusalem, and was partly raised in the Dar El-Tifel orphanage. She speaks Arabic, Hebrew, English, and Italian. Rula is a secular Muslim. She moved to Italy in the 1990s.
Rula has a daughter with her former partner, artist Davide Rivalta.
Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.nypost.com
http://www.interviewmagazine.com
http://www.azcentral.com
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…..