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Motaz Azaiza

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معتز عزايزة

Palestinian photojournalist (born 1999) from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, whose Instagram documentation of the Gaza war from October 2023 reached tens of millions; GQ Middle East named him its 2023 Man of the Year, Time listed him among the 100 most influential people of 2024, and he was one of four Palestinian journalists nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Roles
Journalist
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Rahman Badawi · Abd al-Rahman Siwar al-Dhahab · Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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    Unknown (unknown)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1999

    Sources

    • Motaz Azaiza — English Wikipedia
    • Motaz Azaiza — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Motaz Azaiza — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Motaz Azaiza”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/motaz-azaiza/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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