Dr Amira Halperin
Media; Palestinian Affairs; UK and Israel Bilateral Relations; Terror and Radicalisation; Racism; Delegitimization; Middle Eastern Refugees; Information and Communication Technology
Dr Amira Halperin is a Senior Research Associate at BICOM – Britain Israel
Communications and Research Centre. She is the co - deputy editor of BICOM’s
Fathom Journal. Dr Halperin is a collaborator with The University of British
Columbia Centre for Migration Studies. Amira has been working in the UK,
Canada, China, and Israel, both as a Broadcast Journalist, and as a University
Professor. Currently, she is based in the UK.
Amira is the author of the book ‘The Use of New Media by the Palestinian
Diaspora in the United Kingdom’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). She is
the first ever Israeli researcher who conducted research on the Palestinians in the
Diaspora.
Dr Halperin is an international media commentator, and has been interviewed on
Palestinian affairs, radicalisation online, racism, freedom of speech, refugee policy,
and media. She worked as an Investigative Broadcast Journalist for large media
organisations, including BBC Television, ‘Panorama’ programme, where she
investigated Islamist radicalisation in the UK.
Dr Halperin obtained an MA in International Journalism, and a PhD in
Communication and Media from the Communication and Media Research
Institute, University of Westminster, London, UK.