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Hiba Dlewati is a Syrian American journalist and filmmaker with a focus on migration and its intersections. She has covered the Syrian conflict and refugee crisis as a National Geographic Fulbright Storytelling Fellow, and as a freelance producer working with online, TV and documentary filmmaking teams in the Middle East and Europe. During her time at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Hiba co-directed, produced, shot and edited Mi Isla, a documentary following the story of Ezequiel Ferrer, a Puerto Rican teenage boxer who moves to the Bronx after Hurricane Maria. Hiba was a recipient of the 2018 Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarship Awards and completed a reporting fellowship with the Associated Press in Beirut and Al Jazeera English in Doha. She is currently based in Istanbul. Hiba Dlewati is a 2019 Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the Americas grantee. She is working with Lorena Rios to report on the ways in which stigma stifles sexual education in El Salvador.

Programs

• Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the Americas

Reporting Locations

• Syria