Jacky Rowland, based in Jerusalem, is an award-winning correspondent with 16 years of experience covering conflicts in the Balkans and the Islamic world.
Her reporting earned her a Royal Television Society Award in 2001. She joined Al Jazeera from the BBC, where she held a number of high-profile foreign postings.
<p>The bulldozers and cranes that are carrying out a refurbishment of the White House grounds drowned out our broadcasts on Tuesday. But on Wednesday they fell silent.</p>
<p>The Freedom Flotilla is on its way all right, but there's not much goodwill between the various groups comprising it.</p>
<p>Finding themselves homeless last August, the Ghawi family had set up a tent outside their old house. This flimsy structure, containing a few foam mattresses and plastic chairs, was the target of the latest Israeli demolition order.</p>
