Al Jazeera Journalism Review

Nelly Al-Masri

 

A journalist, researcher, and sports photographer from the Gaza Strip, and a member of the International an Arab Sports Press Associations

 

Writer’s Articles

Field
Diaries
From Gaza, journalist Nelly El Masry bears witness to the war by documenting what remains of sports. Specializing in football, she recounts the destruction of stadiums and the upended daily lives of players. Despite the devastation, football remains for her a language of resistance, memory, and identity.
Journalism in Gaza: A Struggle for Survival

In Gaza, journalism becomes inseparable from the life it documents: reporting continues not from a distance, but from within the same fear, grief, and instability it tries to record.

Nelly Al-Masri
Published on: 25 Mar, 2026