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Loay Ayyoub
Loay Ayyoub (; born 1993 or 1994) is a Palestinian photojournalist. He studied at Al-Azhar University – Gaza and has worked as a freelance photographer for ''The Washington Post''. Early life and education Ayyoub was born in Gaza. Ayyoub studied Media, Journalism and Public Relations at Al-Azhar University – Gaza, and graduated in 2017. Career Ayyoub works as a freelancer and in 2019 began his photojournalism career with ''The Washington Post''. His work documents day-to-day life in Gaza. Following the outbreak of the Gaza war on 7 October 2023, Ayyoub began reporting on the conflict. He separated from his family to keep them safe; Reporters Without Borders reported that by September 2024, over 130 journalists had been killed in Gaza. Ayyoub evacuated from Gaza City, travelling south through the Gaza Strip, before leaving for Egypt in March 2024. For his reporting on the Gaza war, Ayyoub won the Impact Award at the 2023 Lucie Awards and the James Foley Award for Conflic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. Inhabited by mostly Palestinian refugees and their descendants, Gaza is one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated territories in the world. An end of 2024 estimate puts the population of the Strip at 2.1 million, which was a 6% decline from the previous year due to the Gaza war. Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east and north. Its capital and largest city is Gaza City. The territorial boundaries were established while Gaza Administration of the Gaza Strip by Egypt, was controlled by the Kingdom of Egypt at the conclusion of the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. During that period the All-Palestine Protectorate, also known as All-Palestine, was established with limited reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Palestinian Journalism
The history of Palestinian journalism dates back to the 19th century, and more newspapers in Palestine (region), Palestine began to appear after the lifting of press censorship in the Ottoman Empire in Young Turk Revolution, 1908. Newspapers in the region were primarily written in Arabic language, Arabic, Hebrew language, Hebrew, and Ottoman Turkish. Arabic-language newspapers voiced Arab aspirations, largely opposing Zionism, whilst the Hebrew newspapers largely supported Zionism. ''Al-Karmil (newspaper), Al-Karmil'' was established in 1908 and ''Falastin (newspaper), Falastin'' in 1911, both published by Palestinian Christians, whilst Haaretz, established in 1918, is the longest-running newspaper established by Palestinian Jews. However, the emerging press was soon suppressed after the outbreak of World War I in 1914. When Palestine became a Mandate for Palestine, British Mandate in 1920, its press became more diverse, as over 250 Arabic newspapers and 65 in other languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photographers From The Gaza Strip
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs. Duties and types of photographers As in other arts, the definitions of amateur and professional are not entirely categorical. An ''amateur photographer'' takes snapshots for pleasure to remember events, places or friends with no intention of selling the images to others. A ''professional photographer'' is likely to take photographs for a session and image purchase fee, by salary or through the display, resale or use of those photographs. A professional photographer may be an employee, for example of a newspaper, or may contract to cover a particular planned event such as a wedding or graduation, or to illustrate an advertisement. Others, like fine art photographers, are freelancers, first making an image and then licensing or making printed copies of it for sale or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinian Photojournalists
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine (region), Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous population, descended from Jews, other Semitic groups, and non-Semitic groups such as the Philistines, had been mostly Christianized. Over succeeding centuries it was Islamicized, and Arabic replaced Aramaic (a Semitic tongue closely related to Hebrew) as the dominant language" * : "Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture." * : "Furthermore, Zionism itself was also defined by its opposition to the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants of the region. Both the 'conquest of land' and the 'conquest of labor' slogans that became central to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
