Marta Zaknoun was born and raised in Jerusalem. She graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Masters degree in Communication and Journalism in 2008. Before moving to Toronto where she lives now with her husband and 4 children, she worked with different catholic media channels and in the Public Relation Department at her University. Since she moved to Canada, she has been involved in religious education and has worked as a freelance journalist as well as in the field of public relations with not-for-profit organizations. She is the editor of the Catholic magazine Traces Canada and she writes articles about the Middle East. Marta curated the exhibit “A People, A Face, A Newness in Everyday Rubble” documenting the lives of Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Jordan.

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