Journalist, Author, Activist

Empowering Voices,
Inspiring Change

Join Ellen Cantarow as she tells stories of resilience, resistance and hope in communities striving for justice.

Welcome

Meet Ellen Cantarow

Ellen Cantarow brings over five decades of dedication to social justice to her writing. With a commitment to amplifying marginalized voices and to confronting oppression, her work sparks conversation and hope for brighter futures.

What I’ve Written About

My writing traverses geopolitical conflicts, environmental degradation, and women’s rights. Each piece reflects my commitment to highlighting systemic injustice while inspiring action for social change.

Who I’ve Written For

From magazines like The Nation, Mother Jones, and The Columbia Journalism Review to platforms like Tom Dispatch and Common Dreams. TheTom Dispatch articles have been reprinted in between 18 and 20 other publications. My writing spans publications each of which contributes to narratives of justice, peace, and change.

Journalism is not just about reporting facts, it's about amplifying the voices of the marginalized, challenging the status quo, and driving meaningful change.

Ellen Cantarow
Blog

Most Recent Writing

Explore my recent writing, where I address urgent issues and offer my perspectives on the challenges we face today.

Testimonials

Read what others say

Ellen Cantarow is a brave and gimlet eye observer of society and politics. If you are not following her work, and her new website where she often curates the best in contemporary commentary, you are missing out.

Juan Cole, Informed Comment, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan

I met Ellen Cantarow in Gaza over 30 years ago and have followed her work ever since. Her analysis is astute and insightful and informed by an unwavering decency and integrity that is all too rare in reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

Sara Roy Associate, Center For Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

I started reading Ellen Cantarow's dispatches from Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in the Village Voice in the late 1970s. Her insightful reporting clarified what had seemed a murky situation in mainstream media. When she became my editor at the Women's Review of Books, her talent for getting at the heart of issues helped me distill my own arguments. Her writings on the Israeli-Palestine crisis continue to further our understanding of what seems an intractable conflict.

Sonia Jaffe Robbins Contributing Editor, Publishers Weekly

I have been reading Ellen’s excellent prose for about 60 years and learning from her about all sorts of wild and vital matters, from Israeli’s far right fanatics to America’s misplaced love affair with fracking. She never disappoints.

Paul Lauter Allan K. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature (Emeritus) Trinity College (Hartford)