Raed Jarrar
 Raed Jarrar      ( architect, blogger, lobbyist) | |
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| Born | 7 February 1967 |
| Alma mater | • University of Baghdad • University of Jordan |
Raed Jarrar says ICC must prosecute Donald Trump over his crime against humanity 'Gaza Riviera' plan
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Raed Jarrar is an Arab-American architect, blogger, and political advocate based in the US capital Washington D.C. who is advocacy director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).
Jarrar is a frequent guest on national and international media outlets in Arabic and English, including CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and Sky News Arabia.[1]
Background
Jarrar was born in Iraq, and raised in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He is half Iraqi and half Palestinian. He holds a degree in architecture from the University of Baghdad, and a master's degree in Architectural Engineering, specialised in post-war reconstruction, from the University of Jordan.
While attending the University of Baghdad, he met the fellow architecture student later known as Salam Pax.
Blogger
Jarrar first gained prominence as the person referenced in the title of the blog "Where is Raed?", written and maintained by Salam Pax, to which Jarrar himself made infrequent posts. This blog received widespread media coverage during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and afterwards.
Jarrar, along with his family, compiled their blogs into The Iraq War Blog, An Iraqi Family's Inside View of the First Year of the Occupation, which was published in June 2008. The book explores, through their words, how their lives were affected as terrorist activities, as well as the American military and coalition allies response, devastated the city. They persevered through night attacks and daytime missile strikes that often wreaked destruction to their home by blowing doors off hinges and breaking windows. The Jarrar family, while chronicling their daily lives amid the destruction, also provides descriptive analysis of the political climate that resulted from the American occupation of the country.
Political advocacy
After the fall of Baghdad in 2003, Jarrar worked as the country director of CIVIC Worldwide, the only door-to-door civilian casualties survey in Iraq since 2003. He also founded Emaar, an NGO that carried out humanitarian and reconstruction work in Baghdad and southern Iraq. By 2017, Jarrar was Middle East and North Africa advocacy director for Amnesty International, United States. That year, he was denied entry by Israel to mourn his recently deceased father, in his father's hometown of Jenin.[2]
In 2020 Raed Jarrar became advocacy director at DAWN. In February 2025, DAWN’s advocacy director Jarrar said that if Donald Trump were to implement his proposed plan to forcibly displace all Palestinians from Gaza, it would subject him to “individual liability for war crimes and the crime of aggression.” Trump's plan merited an ICC investigation, “not just for aiding and abetting Israeli crimes but for ordering forcible transfer, a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute”.[3]
References
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