Muhammad Najem

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Muhammad Najem, born September 9, 2002, in Ghouta near Damascus, Syria, is a Syrian war reporter and activist. He began documenting the Syrian civil war when he was 15 years old. When his hometown was besieged in December 2017, he decided to tell their story through English-language videos on YouTube, helped by his brother Firas (a photographer) and his sister Hiba (a translator). The videos drew wide attention in February 2018 after CNN producer Nora Neus shared them. RT later accused him of being a "crisis actor." In March 2019, his family was evacuated to Idlib and later became refugees in Istanbul, Turkey. He continues reporting on the Syrian conflict and other Middle Eastern issues, such as Palestine. He was featured in Angelina Jolie's Know Your Rights and Claim Them, and with Nora Neus and Julie Robine he created the graphical autobiography Muhammad Najem, War Reporter.