Plestia Alaqad

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بلستيا العقاد

Gaza

Palestinian journalist and author (born 2001) from Gaza, whose daily video diaries of the Gaza war from October 2023 were carried by world media; she left Gaza for Australia in November 2023, published her diary as The Eyes of Gaza (2025), and was named to the BBC's 100 Women list in 2024.

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Roles
Journalist · writer
Region
Levant & Iraq
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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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    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years2001

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    Gaza

    People and things also explored

    Earthquake at Ramla and the sea's recession, 425· Hashim ibn Abd Manaf· Isma'il al-Kurani· Wael Al-Dahdouh· Yasser Arafat· Gaza

    Sources

    • Plestia Alaqad — English Wikipedia
    • Plestia Alaqad — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Plestia Alaqad — Wikidata
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