Farah Baker
Farah Baker is a Palestinian woman living in the Gaza Strip, who became popular while live-Tweeting the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.[1][2][3] As of July 2018, Baker is 20 years old. She describes herself as the Anne Frank of today.[4] Her tweets became an social network phenomenon, and Baker's following on Twitter jumped from 800 to 166,000 in a few days.[5][6][7] In Anna Reading's book, Gender and Memory in the Globital Age, she writes that Baker was covered in news articles in The Daily Telegraph in the UK and Russia Today.[4]
References
- ↑ Bora, Kukil (August 11, 2014). "Farah Baker, A Gaza Teenager, Becomes Social Media Phenomenon By Tweeting About War". International Business Times. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ↑ al-Mughrabi, Nidal (Aug 11, 2014). "Gaza teen's war tweets make her a social media sensation". Reuters. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ↑ "16-year-old describes life in Gaza". CNN. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Reading, Anna (2016). Gender and Memory in the Globital Age. Springer. ISBN 9781137352637. Search this book on
- ↑ Smith, Alexander. "Palestinian Teen Farah Baker Live Tweets Nighttime Bombardment in Gaza". NBC News. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ↑ Sanghani, Radhika (29 Jul 2014). "Teen girl 'live tweets Gaza bomb attack'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ↑ Khan, Azmat (August 1, 2014). "Sudden Gaza spokesgirl: 'This is my third war … but this is the worst one'". Aljazeera. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
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