Meet the Palestinian journalist and filmmaker Iyad Alasttal

The Geneva Press Club, in partnership with the Institute of Arab and Mediterranean Cultures (ICAM), is pleased to invite you to an exceptional event featuring:

• Iyad Alasttal, an independent Palestinian journalist and filmmaker

To attend, please register using the following link:

Event in French.

Iyad Alasttal is an independent Palestinian journalist and filmmaker born in 1987 in Khan Younes. He studied audio-visual media at the University of Corte in Corsica before returning to Gaza in 2013. As a documentary filmmaker whose works have been selected and won awards at festivals in Egypt, France, the UK, Italy, Lebanon, Tunisia and Palestine, he has also worked as a journalist for French and Swiss medias, including RTS, covering the Israeli army’s bombardments of Gaza. Since 2019, he has been leading the multimedia project ‘Gaza Stories’, which documents daily life in the Gaza Strip. The flat where he had taken refuge was bombed in December 2023. After managing to escape from the rubble, he was able to seek asylum with his family in France in 2024. That same year, Iyad Alasttal received the award from the Geneva-based NGO Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) for the protection of journalists.

6:30 p.m. Welcome remarks by Alain Bittar, Director of the Institute of Arab and Mediterranean Cultures (ICAM)

6:35 p.m. Conversation with Palestinian journalist and filmmaker Iyad Alasttal. Moderated by Géraldine Savary, Director of the Geneva Press Club (CSP), and Luisa Ballin, journalist

7:10 p.m. Audience Q&A

7:30 p.m. Screening of the documentary Gaza: In Search of the Missing. Co-directed by Iyad Alasttal and French journalist Solène Gripon Degenève

8:00 p.m. End of the event

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