About Me

Hi! I’m an online producer and journalist at Al Jazeera English based in Doha, Qatar. For the website I cover international politics and current affairs across Europe, the Middle East and North America. I have reported on the ground from Canada, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Turkey, Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.

For a sample of work at Al Jazeera click here: https://www.aljazeera.com/profile/mersiha-gadzo.html

Prior to joining Al Jazeera in Doha, I worked as a freelance journalist in Bosnia & Herzegovina and the Western Balkans, Canada, Turkey and in the occupied Palestinian territories including the Gaza Strip. I produced both articles and social videos.

My work has been published in Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera Balkans, AJ+, Canadian Dimension, CBC, Deutsche Welle, Middle East Eye and Mondoweiss.

For more details, please check out my CV or my LinkedIn.

I’m a graduate of the University of Toronto where I completed a BA (Hons) degree with a specialisation in journalism and a major in French.

I speak English, French, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian fluently.

Their grandparents were first refugees when they escaped to Syria from Palestine in 1948. Now these young Syrian-born Palestinians are uprooted once more. Here they walk from Šid, Serbia towards the border of Tovarnik, Croatia in search of a better life in Europe. 08.10.2015. Covering the refugee crisis on the Croatian-Serbian border for Middle East Eye.

Interviewing and filming Ramiz Nukic, Srebrenica’s Bone Hunter for Al Jazeera English. April 2017. Srebrenica, Bosnia & Herzegovina.