Ahed Tamimi is a Palestinian activist from Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank. As a child, she rose to international prominence for confronting Israeli soldiers during weekly demonstrations, which resulted in violent attacks on her family and her imprisonment at 16. Honored for her courage and widely regarded as a symbol of Palestine’s youth movement, Ahed studies international law at Birzeit University and plans to use her degree to advance the struggle for a free Palestine.
Dena Takruri is an award-winning journalist who has reported extensively on the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Europe’s refugee crisis, tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and other events of global significance. The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Dena was born and raised in the U.S., yet spent many summers of her life in Palestine. She is currently a Senior Presenter and Producer at AJ+, and has previously worked at HuffPost Live and Al Jazeera Arabic.
