Dena Takruri (Arabic: دينا تكروري) is a Palestinian-American journalist, on-air presenter, and digital producer with AJ+, an online news service owned by Al Jazeera Media Network.
She is the host of the award-winning AJ+ docuseries Direct From with Dena Takruri, which focuses on domestic and international breaking news, political issues, and social justice movements.
There, she produced interviews with prominent political figures including Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Tony Blair, John McCain, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Past episodes have covered the Korean Demilitarized Zone, the Cape Town water crisis, the Catalan independence movement and homelessness in Skid Row, Los Angeles.
[10][11] The episode "One Day in Hebron" (retitled "How Israeli Apartheid Destroyed My Hometown" on its YouTube page) won a Peabody Award in 2023.
[12] Takruri was one of the first journalists who interviewed Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi after her release from Israeli prison[9] and helped write her memoir, which was published in 2022.