Umayya Abu-Hanna (Arabic: أمية أبو حنا) (born 17 March 1961) is a Palestinian-Finnish[2] writer, journalist, and former member of the Helsinki City Council born in Haifa, Israel into a Palestinian family.
She became known to the wider public as the first non-white presenter of the weekly current affairs news-program Ajankohtainen Kakkonen at the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.
[citation needed] In the 2000s, she was member of the Arts Council Finland (2004–2009) and was the first chair of its Multicultural Board.
[4] A cultural history of modern Helsinki, Alienin Silmin, was published in 2014.
She co-authored A changing world, perspectives on heritage, with case studies of museums in Afghanistan.