A sample of the stories and poems I’ve published:
Hills Behind Us, Narrative Magazine, Story of the Week, November 29, 2010
Back to Hebron
The Kenyon Review, Summer 2010
Jerusalem Syndrome
Babel Fruit, Winter 2008-2009
Month: January 2008
Press
BBC World Service, Newsday, September 20, 2012
Le Monde Diplomatique (German), Through the Sinai Desert to the Promised Land, September 14, 2012
Al Jazeera, The Stream: In Israel, African migrants under attack, May 8, 2012
Rolling Stone Middle East, Out of Africa, May 3, 2012
Galei Tzahal (Israeli Army Radio), discussing the “Welcome to Palestine” fly-in, April 15, 2011
BBC Radio, panelist on The World Today Weekend, March 31, 2012
Russia Today, CrossTalk: AIPAC Brinkmanship, March 6, 2012
The Independent: The forgotten plight of the Bedouin in the Holy Land, March 1, 2012
CKUT 90.3 FM, Montreal, Under the Olive Tree, December 15, 2011
The Electronic Intifada: Preventing “Infiltration,” November 18, 2011
The Washington Post: As Palestine seeks statehood at the UN, no end of conflict in sight, September 22, 2011
Guest host on Al Jazeera’s The Stream: discussing Rick Perry and Britain’s ATOS scandal, August 31, 2011
Guest host on Al Jazeera’s The Stream: discussing hacktivism and racial inequality in the US, August 29, 2011
Christian Science Monitor: Did Glenn Beck just jump the shark in Israel?, August 17, 2011
Al Jazeera English: Gaza Flotilla: a humanitarian mission or political PR?, July 2, 2011
Ynet: The flotilla to Gaza having difficulties: another six ships delayed in Greece (Hebrew), June 27, 2011
Ynet: Prime Minister backs down: the threat against journalists on the flotilla has been canceled (Hebrew), June 27, 2011
The Jerusalem Post: Tweeting the Nakba, May 17, 2011
Global Journalist: Blurring the lines, profile of Mya Guarnieri, March 10, 2011
Global Journalist: Egypt in Turmoil, February 3, 2011
Russia Today: Crosstalk on Palestinian document leak, January 28, 2011
Ynet: Pictures with bound Palestinians: “Actually, I looked after the prisoners” (Hebrew), August 17, 2010
BBC: Israel decides fate of migrant children, August 1, 2010
Al Jazeera English: The Gaza flotilla video wars, June 19, 2010
The Electronic Intifada: Independent journalists dismantling Israel’s hold on media narrative, Abraham Greenhouse and Nora Barrows-Friedman, June 15, 2010
This Week in Palestine: Palestinian media and the new global media context, Charlotte Alfred, June 2010
The Sovereign Independent: Secret Arrests, Media Censorship Nothing New in ‘Democratic’ Israel, Richard Walker, May 23, 2010
Russia Today: Journalists Accused of Revealing Info on Army’s Illegal Operations, April 14, 2010
The Jerusalem Post: Guerilla artists of Tel Aviv, Carl Hoffman, April 9, 2010
Palestine Note: One state for two peoples– the bi-national solution makes a comeback, Editorial, April 6, 2010
Inter Press Service: Israeli Left Emerges From Coma Amid Atrocities, Mel Frykberg, March 9, 2010
About
I am an award-winning journalist and the author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others, which offers an intimate look at the lives of African asylum seekers and Southeast Asian migrant workers in Israel. Critically acclaimed, The Unchosen was short-listed for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize.
After spending almost a decade living in and reporting on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as an independent journalist, I’m now based in South Florida, where I’m a reporter for Deseret News.
A graduate of Columbia University’s MA in Journalism program, I’ve been writing for +972 since 2011. In the past, I’ve been a regular contributor to Al Jazeera English, The National, Inter Press Service, and the United Nation’s humanitarian news agency, IRIN.
My work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Slate, The Daily Beast, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Counter Punch, Caravan, Agence France-Presse (AFP), The Boston Review, Outlook India– Newsweek’s Indian subsidiary– as well as The Palestine Israel Journal, Tablet, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Daily Forward, Maan News Agency and other international publications.
My short story “Hills Behind Us” was featured as a Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine. My fiction has also been published The Kenyon Review, Zeek, and other publications. My essays have been published in Slate and The Jewish Quarterly.
A graduate of Florida State University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, which The Atlantic Monthly has ranked as one of the top ten creative writing programs in the United States, I also hold undergraduate degrees in English and Psychology.
Feel free to contact me at: myaguarnieri(at)gmail(dot)com
*Photo by Hannah Mayo Photography