Dareen Khattab earned a BA in governmental studies from the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlia (2005). She was an advisor to parliament head MK Shimon Peres, working to connect him with Israeli-Palestinian young people, and served as a member of an Israeli-Palestinian initiative called the One Voice movement. In 2004, Dareen interned in France at the Assembly of European Regions, researching developments related to the European Union constitution. She recently worked at the HAMOKED-Center for the Defense of the Individual, which protects the rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories.