Sham Jaff

Sham Jaff is an award-winning journalist and media entrepreneur in Berlin, Germany.

As a journalist, she is the host of several popular podcasts covering migration, racism and its intersectional as well as global dynamics, centering the perspective of those affected by it. As a media entrepreneur, she's passionate about building multi-lingual platforms and journalistic products for/by marginalized voices in the West. Born in Slemani, Kurdistan, Iraq, she moved to Germany at the age of nine.

Since 2014, she writes the award-winning newsletter 'what happened last week', a weekly curation of voices, events and perspectives from/about Asia, Africa and Latin America. You can subscribe here. Jaff has also contributed to taz, Der Freitag, Deutschlandfunk, and other publications and podcasts and has been a mentor at 'Journalism Innovators Program 2021' at the Hamburg Media School in Germany. Jaff sits on the board of Bonn Institute for Journalism and Constructive Dialogue.