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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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      Broadcaster Mishal Husain is among backers of the British Muslim Network. PA Images
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      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
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      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
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      Visions of peace proposed by mediators and activists are changing, affected by the trauma of October 7 and the Gaza war

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      MENAJanuary 16, 2025
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      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
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      MENAJanuary 09, 2025
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      UKJanuary 06, 2025
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      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
      US Marines burn their fortifications on front line positions in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. AP
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      UKDecember 31, 2024
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      DJ and producer Howie B: Music can heal the scars of war

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

      NewsDecember 21, 2024
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      Syrian investigators are rushing to accumulate and protect crucial evidence for future prosecution

      MENADecember 13, 2024
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