Christina Assi

Christina Assi (Arabic: كريستينا عاصي; born 1995) is a Lebanese photojournalist and photo editor. After losing a leg in an Israeli tank attack in southern Lebanon in October 2023, she began campaigning for journalists' safety.

Biography Christina Assi was born in Lebanon. Growing up there in the 1990s, she lived through the instability of the civil war that she documented in multiple stories. In 2005, she moved to Doha, capital city of Qatar, with her family. Assi graduated from the Notre Dame University-Louaize in Lebanon with a bachelor's degree in communications and journalism. In 2018, she began to work for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Cyprus as a photo editor. she was a victim of an Israeli tank shell attack in Alma al-Shaab. The attack involved two strikes and resulted in Assi losing her right leg. She carried the torch with a colleague, journalist Dylan Collins.

Awards In the end of 2024, the BBC included Assi in its list 100 Women, which recognises the most influential women in the world each year.