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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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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
An Arab Movie House features in an exhibition by Massoud Hayoun at Larkin Durey gallery in central London. Photo: Larkin Durey gallery
How Israel-Gaza war deepened a Jewish artist's links to Arab roots

Journalist-turned-painter Massoud Hayoun uses his work to reimagine common bonds destroyed by history

UKMay 17, 2024
Britain's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy has outlined Labour's foreign policy strategy. Reuters
UK needs 'dynamic diplomacy' like UAE, says Labour's David Lammy

Shadow foreign secretary says a government led by Keir Starmer would seek to improve relations with Gulf states

UKMay 17, 2024
Palestinian photographer Motaz Azaiza spoke at a journalism conference in London on Thursday, before attending a Nakba commemoration. Reuters
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'I lost my city': Gazan war photographer in tears at Nakba event

Hundreds gather in Westminster to hear stories from poets and writers about the 1948 displacement of Palestinians

UKMay 16, 2024
Protesters gather in Hyde Park in solidarity with Palestine on April 27 in London, England. Getty Images
UK accused of betraying Palestinians fleeing Gaza

Cross-party calls were made to help relatives of British Palestinians enter the country

UKMay 14, 2024
Palestinian classical music duo Lamar Elias and Mira Abualzulof. Photo: MiraLamar Duo
Exclusive'Music an outlet for emotion and a beacon of hope in Gaza'

Musical education has continued in Gaza under the bombs but help is needed more than ever, advocates of the Edward Said National Conservatory say

Music & On-stageMay 11, 2024
A Palestinian woman holds a girl wounded in an Israeli strike, as Israeli forces launch a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah. Reuters
We were last to leave before border closed, say UK doctors fleeing Rafah

Palestinian families face difficult choices as they attempt to escape Gaza's last place of refuge where UK emergency doctors have been able to leave

UKMay 07, 2024
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah sit next to their belongings in the back of a vehicle after an evacuation order by the Israeli army. AFP
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ISRAEL-GAZA WARIsrael begins assault on Gaza's Rafah amid crucial ceasefire talks

Army says it will operate with extreme force in southern city

MENAMay 06, 2024
Sadiq Khan speaks after winning an unprecedented third term as London's mayor. Getty Images
Sadiq Khan re-elected London mayor despite Ulez backlash

Labour mayor wins unprecedented third term with 275,000 majority over his Conservative rival

UKMay 04, 2024
Ghassan Abu Sitta addresses a pro-Palestine demonstration at University College London on Friday May 3. as a pro-Palestinian camp has been set up on the campus. AFP
Gaza witness Ghassan Abu Sitta stopped from entering France

British-Palestinian doctor who recounted alleged war crimes in Gaza said Germany has banned him from entering the EU's Schengen area

UKMay 04, 2024
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