Umayya Abu-Hanna
Umayya Abu-Hanna (born 17 March 1961) is a 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.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Bibliography
- 3 Awards
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Career
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.
In the 1990s, she was a journalist, do*entary 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.
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.
Her first novel, Nurinkurin, was published in 2003. Her book on iden*y, Sinut, was published in 2007. A manual for the cultural field, Multikulti, was published in 2012. A cultural history of modern Helsinki, Alienin Silmin, was published in 2014. She co-aut*d A changing world, perspectives on heritage, with case studies of museums in Afghanistan.
Bibliography
- Nurinkurin (2003)
- Sinut (2007),
- 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
- Larin Paraske Award, The Kalevala Women's *ociation (2008)
- "Finn of the Year", The Finnish Civic Society (2004)
- Finland Award (2003), Ministry of Education
- Bonnier Group Award (2002) for journalistic innovation
References
External links
- Homepage