Umayyah Juha is a Palestinian artist and cartoonist . She was born in Gaza City on February 2, 1972. She won the Arab Journalism Award for the year 2001 . She is considered the first painter in the Arab world to work in daily political newspapers and news websites. She is a painter on Al Jazeera Net - the most famous Arab news site - and has a special page on the site. She also won the Arab Journalism Award in the United Arab Emirates in 2001. Wife of two martyrs.

education

I graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Al-Azhar University in 1995 with distinction and first class honors at the university.

The first Arab cartoonist

• Umayya is the first cartoonist in Palestine and the Arab world to work in a daily political newspaper. ^[2]
• She participated in many local exhibitions.

Work and memberships

• She worked as a mathematics teacher for three years, then resigned in 1999 to devote herself full-time to artistic work.
• She has worked as a cartoonist for Al-Quds Daily newspaper since September 1999 .
• She is a member of the Naji Al-Ali Fine Arts Society in Palestine.
• She works in daily political newspapers and news websites, in addition to being the president of the "Juha Toon" cartoon company. ^[3]

Wife of the two martyrs

The artist Omayya married twice, the first to Rami Khader Saad , who was killed by the Israeli army in May 2003 in Gaza , who was a mujahideen and field commander in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement , and the second to Wael Aqilan , who was martyred because the Israeli siege on the Strip prevented it. From leaving for treatment after suffering a stomach explosion. Aqilan died in May 2009 . ^[5]

Constrictions

Her Facebook page was deleted under Israeli pressure

On Sunday, January 10 , 2015 , the administration of the social networking site Facebook blocked her page, claiming that she had received reports from people about publishing offensive drawings.

Umayyah Juha said that she was surprised by a barrage of messages from the Facebook administration about these notifications, noting that these messages began to come one after the other, and then she was surprised by Israelis entering her page and publishing offensive pictures and comments gloating over the Palestinian martyrs and promising victory over the Palestinian people, and other pictures supportive of Israel. In response, Umayyah Juha launched a counter-campaign with her page friends and they began to support her in a very interactive manner and published her drawings on their pages, noting that Facebook management then began deleting some of the drawings that had been reported. She added that hours later, Facebook blocked any of her activity on her page, so she could not correspond with anyone, publish her drawings, or comment, noting that every time she was asked for the password to enter her page, which aroused her extreme dissatisfaction, as she did not receive a message from them warning that the page would be blocked. Umayyah Juha expressed her regret that the Facebook administration deleted many of her drawings from her page.

awards

She won the grand prize in the Naji Al-Ali International Caricature Competition, which is organized by the Solidarity Association with the Palestinian People in Turkey in cooperation with the Humor Humor and Caricature Group. On November 28 , 2010 [4]
She won the 2001 Arab Journalism Award in the United Arab Emirates.
She won first place among the governorates of Palestine with her cartoons in the Women’s Creativity Competition held by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture - March 1999 .

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