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Janna Jihad: The Youngest Palestinian Journalist

(what's a "Modern Worthy"? click here to find out!)

“I began that work when I saw, like, a lot of things that happened without journalists covering those things. Like when my friend Mustafa has been killed, when my uncle Rushdi has been killed.”

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