Umayya Abu-Hanna
{{Short description|Palestine-born Finnish politician, journalist and writer}}
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Umayya Abu-Hanna ({{langx|ar|أمية أبو حنا }}; born 17 March 1961) is a Palestinian-Finnish[https://web.archive.org/web/20090601090856/http://www.hs.fi/kirjat/artikkeli/Sinuiksi+vieraan+maan+kanssa/HS20070915SI1KU02yd7 Helsingin Sanomat] (in Finnish). In this article she calls herself Palestinian Finnish. writer, journalist, and former member of the Helsinki City Council born in Haifa, Israel into a Palestinian family. She moved to Finland in 1981. In 2011, she moved to Amsterdam where she resides with her South African daughter.{{cite web |url=http://www.anna.fi/etusivu/artikkelinosto/lahdin-suomesta-suojellakseni-tytartani/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116062708/http://www.anna.fi/etusivu/artikkelinosto/lahdin-suomesta-suojellakseni-tytartani/ |archive-date=16 January 2013 |title=Umayya Abu-Hanna: "Lähdin Suomesta suojellakseni tytärtäni"}}
Career
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In the 1980s, Abu-Hanna was a member of the Helsinki City Council (for the Green Party) and a member of the Real Estate Board of Helsinki.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
In the 1990s, she was a journalist, documentary maker and columnist. She became known to the wider public as the first non-white presenter of the weekly current affairs news-program Ajankohtainen Kakkonen at the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
In the 2000s, she was member of the Arts Council Finland (2004–2009) and was the first chair of its Multicultural Board. Abu-Hanna was also the cultural diversity adviser of the Finnish National Gallery.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
Her first novel, Nurinkurin, was published in 2003. Her book on identity, Sinut, was published in 2007. A manual for the cultural field, Multikulti, was published in 2012.[http://www.6d.fi/6d/index.php/cultitude/530-umayya-abu-hanna 6d interview of Umayya Abu-Hanna], 6d.fi. Accessed 3 February 2022. A cultural history of modern Helsinki, Alienin Silmin, was published in 2014. She co-authored A changing world, perspectives on heritage, with case studies of museums in Afghanistan.{{Cite book |last=Abu-Hanna |first=Umayya |url=https://www.academia.edu/40797689/A_CHANGING_WORLD_PERSPECTIVES_ON_HERITAGE |title=A CHANGING WORLD, PERSPECTIVES ON HERITAGE |last2=Parthesius |first2=Robert}}
Bibliography
- Nurinkurin (2003)
- Sinut (2007),{{Cite web| url=http://wsoy.fi/yk/authors/show/10058 | title=Etusivu – Kirjailijat – Kaikki – Umayya Abu-Hanna | publisher=WSOY.fi | access-date=2010-03-03}}
- Multkikulti (2012)
- Alienin silmin (2014)
- A Changing World, perspectives on heritage (2014)
- Columns, Metro
- Columns, Suomen Kuvalehti
- Columns, Helsingin Sanomat
- Columns, Finnair's in-flight magazine: Blue Wings
Awards
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- Larin Paraske Award, The Kalevala Women's Association (2008){{Cite book |last=Gröndahl |first=Satu |url=https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27477 |title=Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden |last2=Rantonen |first2=Eila |date=2018 |publisher=Finnish Literature Society / SKS |isbn=978-952-222-992-2 |pages=114 |language=English}}
- "Finn of the Year", The Finnish Civic Society (2004)
- Finland Award (2003), Ministry of Education{{Cite web| url=http://www.wsoy.fi/index.jsp?c=/product&isbn=951-0-30807-2 | title=Etusivu> Kirjat> Sinut (Abu-Hanna, Umayya) | publisher=WSOY.fi | access-date=3 March 2010}}
- Bonnier Group Award (2002) for journalistic innovation{{Cite book |last=Gröndahl |first=Satu |url=https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27477 |title=Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden |last2=Rantonen |first2=Eila |date=2018 |publisher=Finnish Literature Society / SKS |isbn=978-952-222-992-2 |pages=114 |language=English}}
References
External links
- [http://www.umayya.fi/ Homepage]
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Category:20th-century Finnish journalists
Category:Palestinian emigrants to Finland
Category:Finnish people of Palestinian descent
Category:20th-century Finnish politicians
Category:20th-century Finnish women politicians
Category:Finnish expatriates in the Netherlands
Category:Finnish women journalists
Category:Politicians from Haifa
Category:21st-century Finnish journalists
Category:Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture alumni