Rand Jarallah

Palestinian activist & artist
Her projects use makeup to illustrate the reality of male violence against women & girls
Her series of campaigns and videos for the UN Population Fund included 'Reversing the Trend' & #7DaysofMakeup

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Susan Abulhawa
(1970-)
Palestinian American writer & human rights activist.
Founder of a non-governmental organization, #PlaygroundsforPalestine.
Her first novel, Mornings in Jenin, was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies.
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Asma al-Ghul
Secular Palestinian feminist journalist.
Won the Courage in Journalism Award, known for her defiant stance against violations of civil rights in Gaza.
In 2010, she was granted the Hellman/Hammett award by Human Rights Watch.
Her family were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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#ShireenAbuAkleh (1971-2022)

Palestinian-US journalist known for reporting on the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories

Wearing a blue vest with “PRESS” on it, she was shot & killed reporting on a raid by the Israel Defence Forces on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

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“We are all going to have a very agreeable conversation.”

Beatrix Campbell
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Karima Abboud,
1894-1940
First Palestinian woman photographer. Karima began to practice photography as a teenager in 1913. As well as photographing landscapes, many of her pictures featured women in Bethlehem.
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