Majed is a Palestinian journalist and human rights defender who hails from Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza. Based in the Gaza Strip, he has been using social media for years to make sure that the rest of the world gets a real-time picture of what is ongoing there. Five years ago he took the chance to flee from Palestine as a refugee and reached the city of Tromsø in Norway. It never occurred to him that he might someday leave Gaza for the “North Pole” and experience the midnight sun, the polar night: months of daylight then months of endless night.

Two years ago he moved to Germany and he now lives in his new house in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Since then, he kept on working with International and Palestinian non-profit organisations focused on sustainability, reforming aid, entrepreneurship, and organic conflict transformation. Peaceful activist, Majed was once shot by Israeli soldiers and many times harassed by Hamas police, threatened, arrested … On a brighter side, Majed’s work and articles about freedom of speech and human rights in Gaza, his home, have been acknowledged by the UNESCO’s Freedom of Expression Award he received in 2011.