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Dima Khatib
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Dima Khatib (Arabic: ديمة الخطيب) is a Palestinian journalist, poet, and translator. She was born in Syria. She is the managing director of AJ+, a digital news service. AJ+ is part of the Al Jazeera Media Network. It offers news in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. Dima Khatib is currently the only female executive director in the Al Jazeera group. She is also one of the few female leaders in Arab media.
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About Dima Khatib
Dima Khatib was born in Damascus, Syria. Her mother was Syrian, and her father was Palestinian. Dima is very good with languages. She speaks ten different languages! These include Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, German, Swahili, and Greek.
She started working at Al Jazeera in 1997. She began as a junior intern. Later, she became a producer and a correspondent in China. She then became the head of the Latin America office. In recent years, she has focused on internet journalism.
Her Work as a Journalist
Dima Khatib is known as one of the most influential Arabs on social media. During the Arab revolutions, she gained attention. She shared frequent updates and comments about events on her Twitter account. Today, she talks about many topics on her social media. These include social media itself, news, being a mother, poetry, and Palestine.
Reporting on Big Events
She first became well-known during the Iraq War. At that time, she worked as a live news producer in Doha for Al Jazeera Arabic Channel. She was interviewed by famous TV hosts like Larry King and Wolf Blitzer. She was also featured in Control Room, a documentary film from 2004. This film was about Al Jazeera's news coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Reporting from Latin America
When she worked in Latin America, she had special access to leaders. She interviewed the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. She also spoke with other leaders like Bolivia's Evo Morales and Brazil's Lula da Silva. She reported from many places across South and Central America. Her reports gave the Arab World a new look at this distant continent. From Caracas, she was often the source of breaking news.
Teaching and Poetry
Between 2013 and 2015, Dima Khatib taught journalism. She taught at the American University in Dubai (AUD). She also gives talks around the world. She often organizes poetry readings. These events take place in cities across the Persian Gulf region. She also holds them in Europe and both North and Latin America.
Before working with Al Jazeera, Dima Khatib had other jobs. She worked for Swiss Radio International in Bern. She also worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva. In Doha, she worked for Al-Raya Newspaper and Qatar Radio in French.
See also
In Spanish: Dima Khatib para niños
