Rania Al-Shalabi is a journalist and researcher based in Amman. Her work focuses on political communication and influence operations — in particular Israeli politics and media and the political economy of digital platforms — drawing on more than a decade across Arab networks as a reporter, anchor and head producer. She is a news reporter for France 24 Arabic, presenting the Jordan editions of Reporter's Magazine from Amman. At Roya she worked between 2017 and 2021 as a reporter, then presenter of a morning society programme, then anchor of the 7AM News Hour; and between 2022 and 2025 as head producer and presenter of a daily current-affairs programme and co-host of a political podcast, alongside anchoring the evening bulletins through the Gaza and Lebanon wars. Before that, she was a senior journalist with BBC Xtra Arabic in Beirut (2021–2022). She has been a research fellow at the Politics and Society Institute since February 2025. Her published research includes a study of technology companies as a new sovereign actor from Ukraine to Gaza and an analysis of Iran's information-warfare architecture in the digital space. She writes on Israeli and US elections, the Iran war, media framing and regional politics. She delivers training in global media and digital storytelling and was a Media Fellow with the United Nations training programme for Palestinian journalists (New York, 2019). She is an MA candidate in Global Media and Digital Cultures at SOAS, University of London.