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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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Al Mawasi, in southern Gaza, and Hastings, on England's south coast, have formed a friendship. Getty Images
UK towns to twin with Palestine in show of support

A network of friendship associations will meet on Saturday to discuss new ways of helping Palestinians

UKApril 18, 2024
Haifa Al Kaylani at the investiture at Windsor Castle. Courtesy of Haifa Al Kaylani
Haifa Al Kaylani receives OBE at 'moving' Windsor investiture

She founded, and still heads, the London-based Arab International Women’s Forum

UKApril 12, 2024
Left: Narmin El Gabbour with her siblings and their children in Gaza before the war. Right: Narmin's sister Noura in a refugee camp in Gaza. Photo: Narmin El Gabbour
'How will I explain to my children?': Pain of British Palestinians who escaped from Gaza

Families evacuated from the warzone have had to start their lives from scratch in a new country - but their thoughts are never far from what they left behind

MENAApril 05, 2024
Palestinian Ambassador Husam Zomlot with actor Khalid Abdalla and others at the London vigil. Photo: Algbra X
London Ramadan light display switches off for Gaza

Actor Khalid Abdalla and publisher Alexandra Pringle were among guests honouring work of Medical Aid for Palestinians

UKMarch 30, 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer passes protesters after leaving Chatham House, where he delivered a speech on the situation in the Middle East. Getty Images
Independent wave gathers against Labour over Gaza war

Labour's position on Israel-Gaza war is shifting but initial refusal to call for ceasefire has sparked anger among supporters

UKMarch 28, 2024
Shanty housing in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, South Africa. Elevating the UK minister for development and Africa to cabinet level was one feature of the departmental merger. AFP
UK merger of aid and diplomacy departments led to smaller plans and staff shortages

National Audit Office report said impact of £24.7m merger was not fully known and benefits were not assessed

UKMarch 25, 2024
Tamara Al Saade, chef and owner of T by Tamara restuarant in London's Marylebone district. Victoria Pertusa / The National
Hunger in Gaza haunts London iftars

London's Middle Eastern communities are coming together to raise funds for Palestine this Ramadan

UKMarch 23, 2024
Clockwise from the top left: Tasnim Nazeer, Zamzam Ibrahim, Adama Juldeh Munu, and Amna Abdullatif in HIJABI. Photo: Samir Mehanovic
Documentary highlights the resilience of UK's hijab wearers

Samir Mehanovic is an award-winning filmmaker who is highlighting the anti-Muslim hate many British women are subjected to

Film & TVMarch 22, 2024
Protestors gather near parliament in London. Getty Images
Palestinian citizen of Israel granted UK asylum

Hasan, 24, claimed he would face persecution in Israel due to his pro-Palestinian activism

UKMarch 14, 2024
Pupils take part in a National School Strike for Palestine demonstration in London. Getty Images
Palestine-Israel history taught in fewer than one in 50 UK schools

Israel-Gaza war has led to growing calls to teach history of conflict in schools, not least because of Britain's historical ties

UKMarch 14, 2024
Dr Abdul Galil Shaif in Sheffield. Dominic Lipinski for The National
British-Yemenis and a conflict over the Red Sea crisis

The UK's oldest Arab community draws on historical ties to call for more British support for Yemen as its conflict goes global

UKMarch 08, 2024
Avivit Yablonka, left, sister of Chanan Yablonka, hugs Orit Meir, mother of Almog Meir, during a press conference at the Israeli embassy in London with family members of seven hostages taken by Hamas. AP
Families of Gaza hostages know release hinges on Israeli withdrawal

The families of seven Israeli hostages spoke in London as an anticipated ceasefire deal collapsed

Palestine-IsraelMarch 07, 2024
Haifa Al Kaylani OBE, pictured at the Carlton Jumeirah London, is known as a change-maker in areas from leadership and youth empowerment to sustainability and the environment. Photo: Mark Chilvers
Haifa Al Kaylani's life of encouragement gives Arab women a voice

For the Palestinian-born Arab International Women's Forum founder, the laws of economics mean each woman must be heard

Arab ShowcaseMarch 07, 2024
Shirine Khoury-Haq, the first female chief executive of the British supermarket brand Co-op, at the Arab Women of the Year Award. Photo: The National
'Remarkable' women of Gaza acknowledged at London Arabia awards

The event, now in its 10th year, celebrates the achievements of women in the Arab world

UKFebruary 29, 2024
Talia, a British Palestinian girl calls for a Palestinian visa scheme at an event in the House of Lords on Wednesday. More than 300 British-Palestinian families are petitioning their MPs and the Home Office to set up a scheme that would allow their relatives in Gaza to stay in the UK while the war continues. Photo: Farrukh Younus / @implausibleblog
British Palestinians want visa scheme for relatives in Gaza

With Israeli plans to invade Gaza's last place of refuge, families are stepping up their campaign to save trapped relatives

UKFebruary 29, 2024
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