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Lemma Shehadi

Lemma Shehadi

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Lemma Shehadi covers stories of Middle East interest in the UK. She has reported from the Middle East, Europe and South Asia. She won The Independent’s Rupert Cornwell Prize for foreign journalism to write a series on the Yazidis of Iraq and the Caucasus in 2019. She was a One World Media Fellow 2022, looking at the impact of wildfires and reforestation in the marginalized north of Lebanon.
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A combine harvester crawls through a parched field at a farm in Bury St Edmunds, eastern England. Dry land has annihilated UK crops for the past three years. AFP
British farmers lose billions after three years of ‘devastating’ harvests

Deficit of 5.9m tonnes of cereal and rapeseed oil projected for 2026

UKAugust 31, 2026
Iranian designers Aria Kasaei and Elly Naghilou in Paris in March. Photo: Alexandre Arminjon
Iranian graphic designers arrested for the 'crime' of meeting French diplomats

It is a rendezvous that has escalated into a serious diplomatic incident - and caught in the middle of it are two of the leading lights of Tehran's increasingly persecuted arts scene

UKAugust 28, 2026
There has been hope that Andy Burnham will take a tougher stance on Israel than his predecessor. Reuters
UK warns Israel against expelling its diplomats

Prime Minister Andy Burnham reportedly considering wider trade embargo

UKAugust 28, 2026
A site previously used as a UK asylum accommodation centre in Manston, south-east England. Getty Images
Fears over 40 asylum-seeking children missing in the UK since 2023

Group that vanished from asylum hotels considered vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation

UKAugust 27, 2026
The Houthis are believed to be smuggling weapons alongside Al Shabab in Somalia and the Sudanese Armed Forces in Sudan. EPA
Houthis developing new arms-smuggling networks in Africa

Iran-backed militia's activity increasing in Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia, report finds

MENAAugust 26, 2026
None of the nutritional supplements can be used after the warehouse's destruction, Gazan charity Ard El Insan said. Medical Aid for Palestinians
Infant food warehouse in Gaza destroyed by Israeli strike

Bombs destroyed all of the nutritional supplements for malnourished children and pregnant women

UKAugust 25, 2026
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. AFP
UK and French leaders urged to put business squeeze on Israel for Palestine

More than 100 ex-French and British diplomats sign open letter also sent to Prime Minister Andy Burnham

UKAugust 25, 2026
From left, Hassan Al Khawas, Zeina Alayn and their daughter Sara. Photo: Palestinian Forum in Britain
Palestinian family who drowned in UK to be buried in Palestinian camp in Lebanon

Grieving mother of Hassan Al Khawas wants to see her son and his family 'one last time' in Rashidiya Camp

UKAugust 24, 2026
Flowers left by London Bridge on the first anniversary of the June 2017 terror attack there. Getty Images
British PM Burnham tells terror attack victims ‘you are not alone’

UK holds first national day for victims and survivors of terrorism

UKAugust 21, 2026
A car which was hit in Israeli strikes, killing workers from the World Central Kitchen. EPA
World Central Kitchen deaths: Israel told it's 'shameful' not to investigate Gaza attack

Nations condemn decision after Israel says strike that killed seven aid workers was justified

UKAugust 21, 2026
Abdel Mohsen Al Masri prepares to detonate the unexploded Russian missile found. Ahmed Fallaha / The National
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Dispatch'I saw fire, then heard the blast': Deraa's fields peppered with Assad-era mines

At least 800 people, almost a third of them children, have been killed by unexploded munitions since collapse of Assad regime, according to Halo Trust figures

MENAAugust 21, 2026
France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced that two Iranian diplomats would be expelled from Tehran's embassy in Paris. AFP
Iran's row with France escalates as diplomats expelled from Paris

French Foreign Minister Barrot says move made in retaliation for interrogation and expulsion of embassy staff

MENAAugust 19, 2026
Stephen Doughty, UK Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, speaks to media inside aid warehouses designated for Gaza alongside the Egyptian Red Crescent near the Rafah border crossing. Getty
New UK Middle East Minister calls for more aid for Gaza

Stephen Doughty visits aid warehouses on Egyptian border on first visit to region

UKAugust 19, 2026
Hossam Al Khawas, Zeina Alyan and their daughter Sara died on Tuesday. Photo: Palestinian Forum in Britain
Palestinian refugee family drown in sea off English coast

Father, wife and daughter died in rough seas at Shoreham

NewsAugust 19, 2026
Jobar, on the outskirts of Damascus, was heavily damaged by shelling during the Syrian civil war. Ahmad Fallaha / The National
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'Like living in the desert': Syrians brave dangers to return home in heavily shelled neighbourhoods

With fighting subsiding since the fall of the Assad regime but rents rising in Damascus, residents who had been forced to leave areas near the capital are now rebuilding their lives in the ruins of their former homes

NewsAugust 19, 2026
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