About me
Lipika Pelham is a historian, journalist, filmmaker and the author of “Passing: An Alternative History of Identity” (2021), “Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic” (2019), “Conversations Across Place” (2021), and “The Unlikely Settler” (2014).
Lipika is a postgraduate researcher at The University of Westminster, London, completing a commentary on her book, “Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic”, for a History PhD by Published Work. As a public speaker, Lipika has given talks at Jewish Book Week, Jewish History Channel, Chalke Valley History Festival, Spiro Ark, among other literary and Jewish cultural platforms.
She works as a producer/reporter/regional editor in the BBC World Service Newsroom, frequently appearing on air commenting on Arab-Israeli affairs. She also makes long-form documentaries for the BBC.
In the late 1990s and 2000s, Lipika reported for the BBC from the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and made several award-winning documentary films, including “Deadly Honour”, about honour killing in Israel, where Lipika spent eight years from 2005-2013.
Her essays and reports have appeared in The New York Times, BBC Online, The Guardian, Daily Beast, Tikkun magazine, Haaretz, The Times of Israel.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.