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- Country of residence: United States
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Dena Takruri is an Palestinian American journalist, on-air presenter, and producer with AJ+, Al Jazeera Media Network's all-digital video news network based in San Francisco, California.
She is the host of the award-winning docuseries "Direct From with Dena Takruri," AJ+'s field documentary team focusing on international and domestic breaking news, issues, and social justice movements.
The videos Takruri hosts range in format from in-studio explainers that provide context to the news stories, to interviews with experts and stakeholders, and even ground reports from where news is breaking. Subjects she’s covered include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the BlackLivesMatter movement in the U.S., police brutality, mass incarceration and the 2016 presidential election.
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