How to defeat violence with words | Sama Dizayee | TEDxOxford

By describing her personal experiences in Iraq, Sama Dizayee presents a story that captivates her audience at TEDxOxford. She guides her audience to analyse the importance of various social media platforms and the powerful weapon it offers the individual. Finally, she defines this notion as “social media warfare” a warfare in which the pen is a peaceful weapon and words its peaceful munitions that can bring people together.
Sama Dizayee is an Iraqi-Kurdish journalist based in Washington D.C. At the young age of 16, she published her first article for The Kurdish Globe, an English national newspaper, on the cultural differences of the youth in the Middle East and the West. She has long been a part of the Global TEDx community that has encouraged and changed young lives in Iraq. After the war between US and Iraq in 2003, violence has spread throughout the country and resulted in a continuing sectarian war. Sama herself has witnessed the violence and separation that occurred in the country. She is passionate about reporting the communities that came together during these times,even while media outlets covered other contexts.
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