Omaya Joha

Omaya Joha
أمية جحا
Born (1972-02-02) 2 February 1972 (age 52)
Gaza City, Palestine
NationalityPalestinian
EducationAl-Azhar University
Known forCartoons, writing
Spouses
  • Rami Khader Saad
  • Wael Aqilan

Omaya Joha (Arabic: أمية جحا) is a Palestinian political cartoonist and journalist.[1] She is the first female cartoonist in the Arab world working in daily political newspapers and news sites, including for Al Jazeera Arabic. She is also the recipient of the Arab Journalism Award (2001) in the United Arab Emirates.

  1. ^ إسماعيل, محمد حسام الدين (1 January 2014). ساخرون و ثوار: دراسات علاماتية و ثقافية في الإعلام العربي [Satirists and revolutionaries: semantic and cultural studies in Arab media] (in Arabic). Translated by Ismail, Mohamed Hossam El-Din. Al Manhal. p. 206. ISBN 9796500167725.