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Posts Tagged ‘Palestinian women’

Iqbal Tamimi – Women in Sport and Journalism: the first women's football team in Gaza played against the odds

By Iqbal Tamimi • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Ideas and Projects, Internet and Communication, Interviews, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Gaza is full of stories of brave women, under the Israeli caused rubble there are many stories of women with hopes and great expectations, pioneers in every field.
Being a Palestinian journalist in exile, there was no other way to interview my people and interact with my colleagues in Palestine but through the internet. I have [...]

Iqbal Tamimi – Palestinian Women Photojournalists

By Iqbal Tamimi • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

Palestinian women photojournalists: from taking photos of holy places to documenting burned babies

The first woman photojournalist in the Arab world was the Palestinian Karimeh Abbud (1896-1955)

Palestinian women started taking photographs of families and holy places, ceremonies and weddings, but ended up taking pictures of bodies of killed young children, shelled schools ruined homes, and [...]