Samia Qaiyum

Stories

20th March 2022

Skateboarders: the new face of Palestinian resistance

Over 55 years into Israel's military occupation of Palestine, a few dozen kids are turning to skateboarding as a radical new form of resistance.

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Samia Qaiyum

Samia Qaiyum

Samia Qaiyum is a Dubai-based editor specialising in travel and culture, contributing to the likes of Monocle, Kinfolk, Condé Nast Traveller, and OutThere. A textbook third culture kid with a perpetual thirst for adventure, she has lived in five countries and travelled to 34 others, racking up all sorts of weird and wonderful experiences along the way – just don’t ask her to define the word ‘home’.