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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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US Marines burn their fortifications on front line positions in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. AP
Bush called off Fallujah offensive after ‘dose of reality’ backlash

Newly released papers from the UK's National Archive show then President George W Bush was egged on by a gung ho commander in Iraq

UKDecember 31, 2024
DJ Howie B believes the music industry should do more to build bridges over the Gaza war. Getty Images
DJ and producer Howie B: Music can heal the scars of war

Scottish Jewish musician critical of Israel's approach to Gaza explains his collaboration with Palestinian star Bashar Murad

CultureDecember 27, 2024
The life's work of the Lebanese-British archaeologist Claude Doumet-Serhal at the Sidon site began from a hunch as to the whereabouts of the mysterious ancient capital of the Canaanite and Phoenician people. Photo: Claude Doumet-Serhal
Arab ShowcaseArchaeologist Claude Doumet-Serhal unearthed secrets of a lost civilisation

Lebanese-British expert has spent 27 years excavating evidence of one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities

Arab ShowcaseDecember 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, centre, speaks to firefighters in Magdeburg after the deadly attack at a Christmas market. EPA
Saudi Arabia warned Germany over Magdeburg attack suspect

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser confirms the man held an 'Islamophobic' stance

NewsDecember 21, 2024
Pictures of torture victims that Caesar showed from the prisons of the Syrian regime. Moawia Atrash/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
Archive of atrocities: Race to find the documents that will prove the Assad regime's crimes

Syrian investigators are rushing to accumulate and protect crucial evidence for future prosecution

MENADecember 13, 2024
A Syrian who lives in Turkey shows his Turkish temporary ID document as he waits in a queue at Cilvegozu border gate before entering in Syria at Reyhanli district in Hatay. AFP
About 2.5 million Syrians in Turkey expected to go home if there is peace, says MP

Millions of Syrian refugees are watching and hoping for a peaceful transition from Turkey, according to MP Kani Torun

UKDecember 10, 2024
People gather to celebrate the fall of the Syrian government in Manbij. AP
Kurds in Syria battle Turkish-backed forces and ISIS

Autonomous region in north under threat from militias and potential withdrawal of US troops

MENADecember 09, 2024
A man carries his daughter to school in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Mar Elias Street, Beirut. Reuters
Scale of missed schooling for Lebanese children 'near-catastrophic'

Syrian refugees and children with disabilities set to be disproportionately affected as Lebanon's state schools reopen amid fragile ceasefire

MENADecember 05, 2024
Britain's King Charles speaks to Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) staff, aid workers and volunteers at St Peter’s Church, in London. AFP
King Charles meets volunteers on UK’s Middle East appeal

Crowd builds up outside church in Notting Hill to catch a glimpse of the monarch

UKDecember 04, 2024
Sinn Fein's Mary Lou McDonald celebrates at a Dublin election count centre. PA
Counting begins in Ireland's election after exit poll shows tight three-way race

Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein all did well in first-preference voting

UKNovember 30, 2024
Cardinal Pizzaballa briefs MPs about the situation in Israel-Palestine during his UK visit. Photo: Catholic Church of England and Wales
'We do not understand each other': Faith leaders fall out over Israel-Gaza war

Rome’s Patriarch of Jerusalem on the quest for common ground so interfaith dialogue continues during the war

UKNovember 29, 2024
Migrants are escorted by the Turkish coastguard after being intercepted en route to Greece on the Aegean Sea. Getty Images
ExclusiveKurdish leaders open to UK migration deal but warn bigger plan needed

Regional officials want development help to take priority over new migration deals to combat trafficking gangs

UKNovember 22, 2024
Arrest warrants have been issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Reuters
ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes

Prosecutor says there are grounds to believe Prime Minister and former defence minister oversaw attacks on civilians

MENANovember 21, 2024
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Dr Haider Al Abadi says Iraq should not been seen solely through the lens of Iranian-US tension. Getty Images
Iraq positioned for key role in resolving regional issues, former PM says

Dr Haider Al Abadi warned an incoming US administration that Iraq had a pivotal role to play in the region and should not remain unsupported

MENANovember 21, 2024
Around 4.4 million people from around the world are stateless. Getty Images / The National
Invisible crisis: anguish of the growing millions of stateless people

At least 4.4 million people live without citizenship of any country in an expanding worldwide pool of refugees

EuropeNovember 15, 2024
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