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Hiba Zayadin

Hiba Zayadin is a Jordanian-Canadian writer based in Toronto with a background in broadcast journalism and economics. Hiba currently serves as editor of the Middle East and North Africa desk for IFEX, a global network of civil society and human rights organizations working to defend and promote the right to freedom of expression worldwide.

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