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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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Carne Ross in the documentary Accidental Anarchist. Hopscotch Films
Ex-Iraq war whistleblower calls for 'global solidarity' in foreign policy

Carne Ross is running as a Green Party candidate in north London, challenging a senior Labour MP

UKJune 17, 2024
Protesters gather outside the Eurosatory arms fair, which opened in Paris on Monday. AP
Protesters call for end to Israeli weapons sales at major arms fair

French district court bars representatives of Israeli companies from Eurosatory event, days after officials banned Israeli exhibits

EuropeJune 17, 2024
Sudanese refugees gather to fill cans with water in the Farchana refugee camp in Chad. AFP
Global refugee population grows by almost 10 per cent in one year

More than 120 million people have been displaced, with low to middle income countries bearing most of the burden

NewsJune 13, 2024
Shabana Mahmood appeared on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. BBC/PA Wire
Labour's Mahmood says unions positive about party manifesto

The MP said there were disagreements with a couple of unions but they did not push the issue to a vote

UKJune 09, 2024
An event in England commemorating the D-Day landings. The Prime Minister has been criticised after leaving early from a D-Day ceremony in France last week. PA
Farage faces flak over 'Sunak doesn’t care about our culture' claim

Reform UK party leader's comments dismissed by shadow cabinet minister as 'dog whistle' to stir right-wing voters

UKJune 09, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has called a new national election. AFP
Macron moves to dissolve parliament as far-right wave hits EU vote

Projected results for the European Parliament for France put the far-right National Rally party at about 33 per cent

UKJune 09, 2024
A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag at a rally outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Getty Images
Ex-diplomats backing UK Labour Party's decision to recognise Palestine

An action plan has been drawn up by former envoys and politicians involved with Middle East affairs

UKJune 07, 2024
Clockwise from the top left: Jas Athwal, Josh Simons, Nesil Caliskan, Georgia Gould, Shama Tatler and Luke Akehurst. Getty Images / X / Alamy
Muslim councillor is leading the Starmerite candidate charge

The Labour Party is teeing up a new breed of MPs well-versed in local government, organised labour and policy research

UKJune 06, 2024
Labour party leader Keir Starmer, left, and Andrew Feinstein are among those contesting the seat of Holborn and St Pancras. Getty Images; The National
Nelson Mandela adviser seeks to unseat Labour leader Keir Starmer

Former South African MP and anti-corruption campaigner Andrew Feinstein says he is building a community campaign for challenge

UKJune 04, 2024
Nasrin Rooshan
Health fears for woman jailed after meeting widow of Iran's shah

London taxi driver Arash Asiabi spoke of family's pain and uncertainty as his wife Nasrin Rooshan serves sentence in Evin prison

MENAJune 03, 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer at the launch of the party's election campaign battle bus in Uxbridge, west London. Getty Images
Starmer vows to curb legal migration and 'hire Brits first'

In election campaigning, the party refused to give targets but has promised to cut net migration

UKJune 02, 2024
Wes Streeting says he does not travel on public transport alone after receiving death threats over his stance on Gaza. PA
British MP says he avoids public transport after Gaza war stance threats

Wes Streeting admits some of his constituents feel let down by the party's soft stance on Israel

NewsJune 02, 2024
Women registered 70 per cent of small to medium-sized companies in Oman in the past 10 years. The National
The female entrepreneurs taking Oman to the world

More women in the sultanate are setting up their own businesses than ever before

GulfMay 31, 2024
Kamel Hawwash addresses a pro-Palestine rally outside Downing Street in London. Photo: Alamy Live
Labour’s ‘purge’ of the left ignites pro-Palestine candidates' election bid

Veteran of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Kamel Hawwash is setting up a party focused on national issues

UKMay 31, 2024
Banners in support of Palestine at Goldsmiths, University of London. Getty Images
From Gaza war to UK studies: Palestinian students seek scholarships

More Palestinian students in Gaza are applying to study in Britain, but scholarship-awarding organisations do not know how to get them out

UKMay 30, 2024
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