She is the niece of activist and cousin of activist | Biography Tamimi is from , a village on the in |
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She was featured in the documentary Radiance of Resistance when she was nine years old | Her mother, Nawal Tamimi, is the director of Women's Affairs in the Palestinian Ministry of Development |
Eventually she began covering events and marches in Jerusalem and Jordan.
30She began reporting on the when she was seven years old after two of her family members were killed, inspired to document the conflict in a way that media outlets and news corporations had not | |
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She began reporting to present the perspective of Palestinian youth growing up amid violence, originally using her mother's iPhone to capture videos of protests near her home and uploading them to , , , and | In March 2017 Tamimi was awarded an International Benevolence Award in |
She has over 270,000 followers on Facebook.
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