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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Fatima Musa Ibrahim Al-Badiri (1923–2009), a Palestinian media personality , was born in Jerusalem . She is the first Arab woman to broadcast her voice on “ Hana Al-Quds ” radio in 1946. She is considered one of the first female media professionals in the Arab world. She worked in the field of education in 1946, then moved to media work, where she presented cultural programs, in addition to news bulletins.
Her lineage goes back to an ancient Jerusalemite family, and she is the daughter of Sheikh Musa Al-Badiri , and the wife of the late journalist and writer Issam Hammad .
She is considered one of the first female media professionals in the Arab world , after she was accepted into the first Palestine Radio, “Here is Jerusalem,” which was opened in March 1936, making it the second Arab radio station, and becoming a destination for all Arab artists, a beacon for spreading culture, and a laboratory for creating media competencies that contributed to what A dimension in the radio and television media industry in many Arab countries such as Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq.
She is “the first Arab broadcaster whose voice was broadcast on the air, and the first woman to sit behind the microphone to present to her listeners the news bulletin, as the number of women on the radio at that time was small, and so she found herself alone in the face of a storm that did not subside, except when the Nakba occurred, in which half of the country was lost.”
She continued to work on Palestinian Radio until the Nakba in 1948 AD, then moved with her husband to work on Syrian Radio in the period between 1950 and 1952. Then I worked on Jordanian Radio during the period between 1952 and 1957.
At the beginning of the fifties, she returned again to Ramallah , where she worked in the field of education, in addition to reading the news once a day on Al-Quds Radio in Ramallah, at the request of the radio director. She remained until 1957, when she was forced to return again to the Levant with her husband without working as a refugee for a while. general.
She mastered the English and German languages and attended a number of conferences in Europe. She traveled with her husband to Berlin ; To work for the German Democratic Radio in 1958, and continued there until 1965, then returned to the city of Ramallah and joined the field of education again; She worked as an Arabic language teacher, then as a librarian at the Teachers’ Home affiliated with the Relief Agency in the city.
I moved to live in Jordan, and there I worked in the Classification Department at the University of Jordan Library in Amman between 1978 and 1983.
She worked at the Jordanian House for Culture and Media in the capital, Amman. She died in 2009 and was buried in Jordan.
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