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Lemma Shehadi

Lemma Shehadi

Senior Correspondent
London
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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Egyptian designer Nesreen Sharara at Blickling Hall, a Jacobean mansion in the English countryside. Photo: Gerald Peachey
The Cairo craftswoman inspired by the patterns of an English mansion

Designer and woodworker Nesreen Sharara spent a week at Norfolk’s Blickling Hall as part of a twinning project between the National Trust and the Egyptian Heritage Foundation

CultureFebruary 07, 2025
Craig, a supporter of the convicted far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, at a march in London at the weekend. Lemma Shehadi/The National
UK Foreign Secretary holds crisis talks over Musk disinformation report

Foreign Affairs Committee MPs seek 'malign actor' label for tech billionaire

UKFebruary 04, 2025
Supporters of Tommy Robinson rallying in central London on Saturday. Reuters
Tommy Robinson supporters held after invading anti-fascist demo

Five arrests as rival demonstrations close streets in central London

UKFebruary 01, 2025
Activists sit among the tents of pro-Palestinian protesters outside King's College Cambridge in May 2024. Getty Images
UK universities to avoid political statements after backlash from pro-Palestine students

Report by Higher Education Policy Institute reveals fractured relationship between universities and students over war in Gaza

UKJanuary 30, 2025
Al Hol camp in January. Al Hol is one of the most well-known and overcrowded camps in Syria where many people connected to ISIS, including women and children, are held. AFP
British child died in Syria detention camp despite UK evacuation offer

Dozens of British nationals suspected of joining ISIS remain in detention in Syria but new leaders in Damascus could change this

UKJanuary 29, 2025
Broadcaster Mishal Husain is among backers of the British Muslim Network. PA Images
High-profile UK Muslims back national body to engage with ministers

Baroness Warsi and Mishal Husain are among group's backers after lack of contact between Muslim Council of Britain and ministers

UKJanuary 24, 2025
Nato spokeswoman Farah Dakhlallah with Secretary General Mark Rutte and former Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Nato
Nato spokeswoman Farah Dakhlallah steps down to join WHO

The British Lebanese communications expert was the western military alliance’s first spokesperson of Arab descent

EuropeJanuary 22, 2025
Medics setting up a young patient in an ambulance heading out of Gaza from the European Hospital in Khan Younis in November. AFP
UK government silent on bringing injured children from Gaza

British-Palestinian families hope to welcome injured children into their homes

UKJanuary 21, 2025
From left, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli prime minister Yitzak Rabin and foreign minister Shimon Peres were made joint Nobel Peace Prize winners for 1994 after signing the Oslo Accords. Getty Images
Has Gaza changed Track II peace talks for good?

Visions of peace proposed by mediators and activists are changing, affected by the trauma of October 7 and the Gaza war

NewsJanuary 17, 2025
Mahmoud Al Shehab, 10, sees the historic ruins of Palmyra for the first time after his family's return to the city. Photo: Maree Al Shehab
Syrians face difficult rebuild as they return to Palmyra

First families to return after fall of Assad regime find trail of destruction

MENAJanuary 16, 2025
A Palestinian carries UNRWA aid in Gaza. Reuters
Letter landing with UK MPs calls for coalition to face down Israel’s UNRWA ban

Majority of parliamentarians receive public plea for Palestinian support written by Balfour Project

UKJanuary 15, 2025
Syrians wave the Russian flag in support of its invasion of Ukraine, at a rally in Damascus during the Assad regime. AFP
ExclusiveAssad's allies play role in 'surge in disinformation' against new administration

Investigators are working to establish facts from fiction as a campaign seeks to discredit the HTS-led government

MENAJanuary 09, 2025
Campaigners calling for an end to the war in Gaza hold a flag promoting Vaz Shabir, an independent candidate in the UK's last general election, in the town centre of Keighley, north-west England. AFP.
Candidates for Muslim Council of Britain leadership supported campaign to undermine Labour at elections

Two UK doctors are running to lead umbrella organisation of mosques and Muslim charities

UKJanuary 06, 2025
Shadi Mohammad Al Waisi, Justice Minister for Syria's interim government. AFP
Video purportedly shows Syria's new justice minister overseeing Idlib executions

Footage appears to show moment in 2015 when two women condemned by Shadi Al Waisi are shot, but experts warn of online disinformation aimed at undermining the new Syrian administration.

MENAJanuary 05, 2025
Prof Mazin Qumsiyeh, a scientist and activist for Palestinian rights, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Photo: Takreem
Palestinian rights campaigner nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Prof Mazin Qumsiyeh is a geneticist and environmentalist in Bethlehem, known for his bus tour of the US advocating an end to occupation

MENAJanuary 03, 2025
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