Raya Al Jadir is a freelance journalist and co-founder of the first Arabic lifestyle e-magazine of its kind, Disability Horizons Arabic. Raya’s interests range from culture, TV, social projects and initiatives, literature and art, but her main focus is disability rights issues.

An avid blogger, she launched Careless to raise awareness of life with a disability. Raya holds a Master’s Degree in Renaissance Studies from Queen Mary, University of London.

Explore some of Raya’s reporting during the fellowship year:

• Shielding stories: the impact on disabled people’s mental health  (Disability Horizons | November 27, 2020)
• Shielding stories: the forgotten isolated who have been in ‘lockdown’ since March (Disability Horizons | November 27, 2020)
• Shielding stories: disabled people and their families in extended self-isolation (Disability Horizons | November 20, 2020)
• Covid-19: how the messaging is impacting disabled people’s mental health (Disability Horizons | April 17, 2020)
• Ethnic minority women are too often forgotten when we discuss disability (The Independent | March 14, 2020)
• Toxic positivity harms the disabled community (The National News | April 18, 2022)
• Disability differs when you are an Arab’: Shifting obsolete notions of disability within the Arab world (The New Arab | January 20, 2022)
• 8 things the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us over the past year (Disability Horizons | May 15, 2021)
• For disabled people, it doesn’t feel like we’re ‘all in this together’ (Disability Horizons | June 25, 2020)
• 10 things living with a disability teaches you (Disability Horizons | December 18, 2020)
• Disability and me: an open letter to my younger self (Disability Horizons | March 12, 2020)
• 6 misconception about ventilators debunked (Disability Horizons | October 2, 2020)
• Raya Al-Jadir: finding myself and my home with Disability Horizons (Disability Horizons | April 7, 2021)