Janna Jihad Ayyad Al-Tamimi (Arabic: جنى جهاد عياد التميمي;[1] born April 6, 2006), also just Janna Tamimi, is a Palestinian youth activist and amateur journalist who blogs on Facebook and Twitter under the name or handle of "Janna Jihad".[2]
Janna Tamimi | |
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جنى تميمي | |
| Born | April 6, 2006 |
Biography
Tamimi is from Nabi Salih, a village on the West Bank in Palestine.[3][4] Her mother, Nawal Tamimi, is the director of Women's Affairs in the Palestinian Ministry of Development.[5] She is the niece of activist Bassem al-Tamimi and cousin of activist Ahed Tamimi.
She began reporting on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict when she was seven years old after two of her family members were killed, inspired to document the conflict in a way that media outlets and news corporations had not.[6][7] She has been called "The Youngest Journalist in Palestine" and is referred to as one of the youngest journalists in the world.[8][9] Tamimi, who believes she is living in the Third Intifada, supports Palestinian resistance.[10] She began reporting to present the perspective of Palestinian youth growing up amid violence, originally using her mother's iPhone to capture videos of protests near her home and uploading them to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube.[11][12][4] Eventually she began covering events and marches in Jerusalem and Jordan.[12] She reports in Arabic and in English.[13] She has over 270,000 followers on Facebook.[14]
In 2017,[15] Tamimi, hosted by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, went to South Africa to spread awareness about the violence in Palestinian territories as part of the Pals4Peace tour with the Shamsaan Children of Palestine.[16][17][18] In March 2017, Tamimi was awarded an International Benevolence Award in Istanbul, Turkey.[5] She was featured in the documentary Radiance of Resistance when she was nine years old.[19] She has been praised as a groundbreaking journalist ahead of her time and criticized by some, such as Petra Marquardt-Bigman, as being a propaganda pawn.[20]
In 2023, asked about the 'two-state solution' by BBC, she answered: "[it is] very clichéd 'two-state solution' – Western-made, without looking at the real situation," adding: "But where are the borders?"[21]
References
- ^ "الطفلة الفلسطينية جنى جهاد توثق بكاميرتها انتهاكات الاحتلال" [The Palestinian child, Jana Jihad, documents the occupation's violations with her camera]. Al Araby.
- ^ "'I wish that everybody could just tell the truth.' — Palestine's youngest journalist". Arab News.
- ^ "Janna Yihad: Tiene 10 años y ya es periodista palestina". palestinalibre.org. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Voice for the Voiceless: Palestine's 10-Year-Old Journalist Janna Jihad". The Dawn News. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ a b "All we want is peace and equality: Janna Jihad - Voice of the Cape". vocfm.co.za. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Janna Jihad: Meet Palestine's 10-year-old journalist". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Janna Jihad Ayyad, reporter a 10 anni in Cisgiordania: "La mia telecamera è il mio fucile ed è più forte del fucile"". huffingtonpost.it. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Meet Janna Jihad, the bravest 10-year- old of the Palestinian war front". mvslim.com. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Janna Jihad, the Youngest Journalist in Palestine". VICE News. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Daily Share: 10-Year-Old Journalist Janna Jihad Reports Live From Palestine". wearyourvoicemag.com. 30 May 2016. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ VagaBomb (31 May 2016). "Meet Janna Jihad, Palestine's 10-Year-Old Journalist Reporting in the Warzone". vagabomb.com. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Meet The 10-Year-Old Reporting on the Israel-Palestine Conflict". refinery29.com. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "10-year-old Palestinian journalist covers violence in the West Bank". womenintheworld.com. 1 June 2016. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Janna Jihad". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Janna Jihad, Palestine's youngest journalist". iono.fm. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Janna Jihad, 11-year-old journalist, wants South Africans to help Palestine". thedailyvox.co.za. 28 July 2017. Archived from the original on 14 July 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ Patel, Faizel. "Palestinian Activist Janna Jihad Urges South Africans to be the Voice of Palestine". www.radioislam.org.za. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Palestinian youth activists on tour in South Africa [Janna Jihad and Ahed Tamimi]". bdssouthafrica.com. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Film screening on Palestinian girls living through conflict cancelled due to 'inflammatory' narrative". todayonline.com. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ Smith, Rohan (26 April 2016). "Meet Janna Jihad, the 10-year-old journalist reporting on deadly conflicts in the West Bank". News.com.au. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ 'As Palestinian youths, the political process has failed us', Yousef Eldin, 13.06.2023, BBC