Hannah El-Hitami is a Berlin-based freelance journalist who specialises in Arab countries, migration and international law. 

After completing a Master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, she undertook journalistic training at the magazine of Amnesty International Germany. Since 2019, she has worked as a freelance journalist, reporting from Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, the EU borders and Germany. She was the only journalist to provide extensive coverage of the Al-Khatib trial in Koblenz — the first universal jurisdiction trial to address crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Assad regime. Her articles and radio features have been published by Der Spiegel, ZEIT, Deutschlandfunk, New Lines Magazine, and Justice Info, among others.

Hannah El-Hitami

Basic information

Name
Hannah El-Hitami
Title
Freelance Journalist
Expertise
Print and radio reporter focused on Arab countries, Migration and international law
Country
Germany
City
Berlin
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Syria’s Stolen Children

  • Armed conflict
  • Human Rights
  • Social affairs

DAMASCUS – Following the collapse of the Assad regime, it emerged that at least 3,700 children had gone missing in Syria. They were either arrested alongside their parents or born to political prisoners in jail. Nobody knows where they are today. Have they been killed and buried in mass graves, illegally adopted, or forcibly sonscripted into the army? In many cases, their trail leads to Syrian and international orphanages. 

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Asylum Seekers in the Age of Offshoring: Shrinking Space for Human Rights Protection

  • Human Rights
  • Migration

BERLIN/COPENHAGEN/BERLIN - In the not-so-distant past, the concept of offshore immigration policies, which involve shifting the responsibility of processing asylum claims to a different country, was largely associated with populist far-right ideologies.

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Natasha Phang Lee