Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان

photojournalist, filmmaker @AMEJA 🇹🇳 | previously @texastribune @thedailytexan @dallasnews @austinchronicle

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed photojournalist Fatima Hassouna in a missile strike on Gaza City.

On January 13, 2024, most of her family was killed in an Israeli airstrike ,she was the only survivor. Since then, Fatima had documented Gaza’s suffering under genocide. Today, the same army killed her and the last of her remaining family.

[Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare]

How Jeffrey Goldberg responded when Deepa Fernandes asked him on NPR about the 53 people the US killed in Yemen. https://t.co/8G4oZuL0lI

[Basel Adra @basel_adra]

I'm standing with Karam, Hamdan's 7 year old son, near the blood of Hamdan's in his house, after settlers lynched him. Hamdan, co-director of our film No Other Land, is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. This is how they erase Masafer Yatta.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.

By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.

I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

— For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

🧵The man featured in Clarissa Ward's @cnni segment has been identified by @VeSyriaE as a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence. He is believed to have killed civilians, detained and tortured young men in Homs, and now seems to be trying to rehabilitate his image. (1)

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

thank you !! @petapixel @nataliekeyssar @CanonUSA
https://t.co/2uM7WtZKAG

[Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism @ARIJNetwork]

🟥This recent survey by ARIJ highlights the devastating conditions Palestinian journalists in Gaza are facing. The findings show that 22% of journalists have lost family members, 96% have been displaced, 92% have lost essential reporting equipment, 91% lack basic protective gear such as flak jackets and helmets, and 60% are currently living in tents.

These statistics document the losses, humanitarian conditions, and multitude of challenges faced by Palestinian journalists during the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza.

More details
https://t.co/MVuCEkB5cd

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

CNN published a piece today about Israeli soldiers returning from Gaza. One bulldozer driver testifies that they drove over Palestinians, dead and alive, "in the hundreds". This is genocidal and just breathtakingly evil.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

It is extremely concerning that @TheNJSPJ has decided to partner on an event about media bias with the anti-Palestinian “Honest Reporting” which is responsible for smearing and putting a target on the backs of Palestinian journalists as they are being killed in horrifying numbers

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

anticipate a tweet in one year announcing my move to tunisia

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The same newspaper, one day apart. A lesson in manufacturing consent 🇷🇺🇮🇱

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

@williammelhado @sacbee_news congrats!! texas will miss you

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

my sound re-recorder today said i had more audio files than the usual documentary they sound mix. we put that four hour session to work

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

lately feeling like the luckiest she/they alive

[Jim Nicar @JimNicar]

One. Two. Three!

Happy 123rd Birthday to @UTAustin's Daily Texan student newspaper, which made its first appearance on October 8, 1900. At first, the Texan was a weekly, then semi-weekly, and in 1913, UT students voted to make it a daily source of campus news..

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

surprise came in the mail @thedailytexan

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

seeing my photo on the vp's twitter was so cool i had to write a substack about it https://t.co/fYc7f4Glz9

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Extreme abortion bans like those in Texas have created chaos, confusion, and fear while denying women care even when their life and health are at risk.

Congress must address this health care crisis by restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade.
https://t.co/XYWHT6GO3f

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

amazing to see my photo reach such a wide platform — the chaos Texans face post-roe was the focus of my class documentary last spring.

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Extreme abortion bans like those in Texas have created chaos, confusion, and fear while denying women care even when their life and health are at risk.

Congress must address this health care crisis by restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade.
https://t.co/XYWHT6GO3f

[Paramore Tour Updates @paramore_tour]

HQ photos from #ParamoreAustin

📸 Kara Hawley

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

this is a disgusting, thinly veiled racism — the TRA believes an incredibly qualified Black woman journalist was not offered a job based on “merit”, but in an attempt to shoehorn diversity. the only legacy TRA is upholding is white supremacy.

[Leila Saidane | ليلى سعيدان @leisaidane]

when I took a class of Dr. McElroy’s, she emphasized the importance of distinguishing between “telling both sides” and giving bigotry a platform. I’m enraged to read this response, an blatant insult to a highly experienced journalist and caring mentor.

[Kate McGee Balagia @McGeeReports]

New: The Rudder Association, a group of Aggie alumni dedicated to preserve the school’s core values releases a statement on their response to McElroy’s hiring at @tamu: