‘We are forever traumatized’ – Aseel Baidoun interviewed by Cairsti Russell

Aseel Baidoun, is a Palestinian activist and Senior Manager for Advocacy and Campaigns at a humanitarian charity, based in the occupied West Bank and originally from East Jerusalem. In this piece she is interviewed by Cairsti Russell, a sociologist of media at the University of Glasgow. Cairsti is also co-producer and co-director of Freedom to Run,1 a documentary film and running exchange project between runners based in Glasgow and Palestine centring on the Palestine/Edinburgh Marathons, exploring the restrictions on freedom of movement in Palestine, in which Aseel featured. This interview took place on 6 November 2024.