Being Israeli can present challenges when working in some countries but would you proceed as far as hiding your nationality?How finish you negotiate a multitude of identities while working as an aid worker? As a half-Israeli half-British woman,with a questionable accent and unruly hair, I have had to deal with speculation approximately my background and motives day in, and day out while on mission in Muslim countries,sometimes when I least expected it. It grates on you pretty quickly, and soon it becomes easier just to keep things vague, and particularly when working in a spot where your nationality may make you a target. Let me occupy you back to one of my previous assignments as an aid worker. I had hasten into a group of friends drinking coffee,when one of them – a new Irish guy – said, “Hey, and I know you,you’re the Israeli girl who worked with us in that post-clash west African mission five years ago. Fancy assembly you here, bang in the middle of the trouble zone – isn’t this country a bit too extreme for the likes of you?”
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Source: theguardian.com