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Omaya Joha: what Wikipedia removed

Omaya Joha is a Palestinian political cartoonist and journalist, the first female cartoonist in the Arab world working in daily political newspapers. In the October 6, 2023 snapshot, the opening said ‘She is the wife of two martyrs.’ Today the word martyr appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns of her career and awards, and not that Wikipedia’s own opening once described her as the wife of two martyrs.

The word “martyr” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • Her description was reworded from Palestinian artist and political cartoonist to Palestinian political cartoonist and journalist.
  • The standalone sentence stating she won the Arab Journalism Award for 2001 is gone, though a similar detail survives elsewhere in the opening.
  • This sentence on the Arab Journalism Award was reworded.
  • The statement that she is the wife of two martyrs is gone; the word martyr appears nowhere in the article now.

How it opened then, and now

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6 October 2023 (revision 1158632715):

Palestinian artist and cartoonist Umayyah Juha or Omaya Joha (Arabic: أمية جحا ) is a Palestinian artist and political cartoonist . She was born in Gaza City on 2 February 1972. She won the Arab Journalism Award for the year 2001. She is the first female cartoonist in the Arab world working in daily political newspapers and news sites, and she is a painter on Aljazeera.com – the most famous Arabic news site – And it has a special page on the site. She is also the recipient of the Arab Journalism Award in the United Arab Emirates in 2001. She is the wife of two martyrs. She graduated from the mathematics department of Al-Azhar University in 1995 with honors at the university. ^ Umayyah Juha w…

2025 (revision 1289398144):

Palestinian artist and cartoonist Omaya Joha ( Arabic : أمية جحا ) is a Palestinian political cartoonist and journalist. She is the first female cartoonist in the Arab world working in daily political newspapers and news sites, including for Al Jazeera Arabic . She is also the recipient of the Arab Journalism Award (2001) in the United Arab Emirates. ^ إسماعيل, محمد حسام الدين (1 January 2014). ساخرون و ثوار: دراسات علاماتية و ثقافية في الإعلام العربي [ Satirists and revolutionaries: semantic and cultural studies in Arab media ] (in Arabic). Translated by Ismail, Mohamed Hossam El-Din. Al Manhal. p. 206. ISBN 9796500167725 .

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