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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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Palestinian families at Downing Street, where they met Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Husam Zomlot/X
Palestinians ready to pay for injured children to be treated in UK wait on PM's approval

British-Palestinian community has called on the government to fast-track the go-ahead

UKOctober 26, 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, held talks with Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi as part of a round of meetings with Arab representatives in London. AFP
Jordan accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza at US-Arab talks

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sees urgent need for diplomatic resolution in Lebanon

MENAOctober 25, 2024
Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani speaks during an interview at his office in Gaza in 2021. AFP
Gaza's 'Mr ICC' says UK failing to 'go by the rule of law'

Raji Sourani, founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza, says evidence of war crimes is extensive but Israel's allies are obstructing path to justice

UKOctober 24, 2024
Syrian Red Crescent workers tend to displaced people arriving from Lebanon at the Jdeidat Yabous border crossing in south-west Syria. AFP
UK pledges £3m to support refugees returning to Syria from Lebanon

Most of those who fled Lebanon into Syria 'have nothing to go back to'

UKOctober 23, 2024
An aid convoy moves into the Gaza Strip from Israel on Monday, a few days after the BBC launched its fund-raising appeal for the besieged enclave. AP
BBC concerns 'held up UK aid appeal for Gaza'

British government pledged to match first £10m in donations to Disaster Emergency Committee's Middle East appeal

MENAOctober 21, 2024
The Dog Tooth of Time by Sarah Al Sarraj. Photo: Sarah Al Sarraj
A space to celebrate Islamic astronomy and its contribution to our cosmic understanding

British-Iraqi artist Sarah Al-Sarraj hopes to break the National Space Centre's silence on the contributions of medieval Islamic scholars to modern astronomy

UKOctober 18, 2024
Protesters at a Stop The War Coalition demonstration against Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon in central London. Getty Images
UK's 'remarkably cautious' Middle East policy fails to appease critics

Indecision on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Palestinian statehood and arms sales to Israel have led to calls for a bolder stance on the Middle East

UKOctober 12, 2024
Hugo Shorter, who has worked in Lebanon and Syria, is the UK's new ambassador to Iran. Photo: UK Government
Britain’s new Iran ambassador has experience of Hezbollah’s rise

Hugo Shorter replaces Simon Shercliff in Tehran ahead of an anticipated Israeli retaliatory strike

UKOctober 04, 2024
Evacuees leave HMS Bulwark on July 21, 2006, at Limassol in Cyprus, Getty Images
As a 2006 evacuee, I understand the wrench of fleeing war-torn Lebanon

The UK's Operation Highbrow to evacuate 4,500 people from Lebanon in 2006 was widely praised, but a rerun is less certain today

CommentOctober 02, 2024
Heathrow arrival Lara said people in Lebanon were saying goodbye 'like they might not see me ever again'. PA
Relief and fear as people in Lebanon manage to flee to London

The UK will charter a commercial flight from Beirut to Birmingham on Wednesday, but won't commit to further evacuations

UKOctober 01, 2024
Fighters affiliated with Syria's Hayat Tahrir Al Sham group display drugs seized at a checkpoint they control in Daret Ezza, Aleppo province, in 2022. AFP
EU-Gulf taskforce could tackle Captagon crisis

Drug use in Syria is driven by people coping with trauma, unemployment or pain from conflict-related injuries

MENASeptember 30, 2024
Yasmin Almashaan, who now lives in Germany as a refugee, has filed a criminal complaint to a German court alongside three other families. Photo: Yasmin Almashaan
One woman's quest for bereaved Syrians to find justice in German court

Resident in Germany seeks accountability for Assad regime after losing five brothers in Syria

EuropeSeptember 27, 2024
Author Onjali Q Rauf and a drawing by Mykhailo, 11, a Ukrainian refugee from Lviv at a school in Eastleigh, UK. Photo: Hachette / International Rescue Committee UK
Teachers turn to poets to help refugee children in increasingly hostile Britain

Volunteers are using books and art to create a more welcoming environment for refugees in UK schools

UKSeptember 27, 2024
Nicolas Guillou, Iulia Motoc, and Reine Alapini-Gansou. AFP / Iulia Motoc / X / Wikimedia Commons
Three key ICC judges who could send Israeli leaders to The Hague

Little is known about the direction the court's panel could take after a request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders

UKSeptember 27, 2024
More than 30 flights to and from Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport were cancelled on Tuesday. Reuters
Britain sends 700 troops to Cyprus as nationals told to leave Lebanon

Decision forms first stage of government's contingency plans as conflict intensifies in Lebanon

UKSeptember 24, 2024
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