Amira Hass
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The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Hass was born in Jerusalem. She began her journalistic career in 1989 as a staff editor for Ha'Aretz and started to report from the occupied territories in 1991. As of 2003, she is the only full-time Jewish Israeli journalist who lives amongst the Palestinians, in Gaza from 1993 and in Ramallah from 1997.
Hass was the recipient of the Press Freedom Hero award from the International Press Institute in 2000, the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award in 2002, the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize in 2003, and the inaugural award from the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund in 2004.
Her reporting is often sympathetic to the Palestinian point of view and generally critical of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, but during the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Hass also published several very critical articles about the chaos and anarchy caused by the Fatah gangs of Yasser Arafat and the bloody war between Palestinian militias in Nablus.
Due to her frequent reporting of events or voicing of opinions contrary to the official Israeli and Palestinian position, Hass has often been the target of verbal attack and has encountered opposition from both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities.
Books
- Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege (Owl Books, 2000) ISBN 0805057404
- (with Rachel Leah Jones) An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land (MIT Press, 2003) ISBN 1584350199
External links
- Interview by Robert Fisk (http://home.mindspring.com/~fontenelles/Fisk/fisk23.htm) (2001)
- Interview by Israeli TV (http://w1.858.telia.com/~u85819409/altinfo/amirahass.htm) (2000)
- Interview by US National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesun/20010930.wesun.05.ram) (RealAudio, 2001).
- Interview by Democracy Now (http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/12/1344230) (RealAudio, MP3, and transcript, 2005)
- Search for recent Ha'Aretz articles by Amira Hass (http://www.google.com/search?q=site:haaretz.com+%22Amira+Hass%22)
- Press Freedom Hero award (http://www.freemedia.at/IPIReport2.00/IPIRep2.00_cont.htm)
- Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award (http://www.kreisky.org/human.rights)
- World Press Freedom Prize (http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=10185&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)
- Anna Lindh Award (http://www.annalindhsminnesfond.se/)de:Amira Hass