The Tiny Journalist

Aziz would become a lifelong journalist as Naomi became a lifelong creative writer, publishing her first poems at age seven, the same age when Janna started posting videos. Currently on faculty at Texas State University, Naomi is recipient of the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Janna’s calm and curiosity remind Nye of her father Aziz Shihab, born in Jerusalem in 1927, employed by the BBC while yet a teen—always a believer in getting facts and truth “out there.

She wishes American politicians would “follow” Janna so they might be better aware of how their money is spent

Naomi Shihab Nye joined Facebook to follow Jann

subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.”
—Noam Chomsky

Tell our story, tell our story.

It is a shameful moment for US media when it insists on being sub

Peace, peace, said all three religions.
They said that. Then?
Our footsteps echoed in the ancient streets.

The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan,

my late father Aziz Shihab, author of Does the Land Remember Me? A Memoir of Palestine, (Syracuse University Press),

our Jewish sisters and brothers who work toward equality and justice,