What It Costs to Keep Telling the Truth
By Charlotte Stace
What It Costs to Keep Telling the Truth brings journalists Mariam Barghouti and Laila Al-Arian together for a conversation about Palestine, testimony and the struggle to be heard. Part of CCCB’s Orwell Day programme, the session asks what journalism means when the person reporting is also expected to defend their own credibility.
Barghouti works as an investigative journalist from the West Bank, confronting the difficulty of naming violence, power and suffering with precision. Al-Arian, a documentary journalist based in the United States, works with images as evidence - devastating yet vital for documenting truth. Together, they explore who gets believed, who is treated as “objective,” and how Palestinian journalists are often denied authority precisely because of their proximity to the story.
Timely, rigorous and urgent, this is a conversation about media bias, witness, expertise and the human cost of telling the truth when the truth itself is under attack.