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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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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
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'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
A Palestinian boy carries a water container amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
Palestinian UK envoy Zomlot says new technocrat government to draw on Hamas talks

Palestinian leaders seek to govern Gaza and all occupied territories after the war

Palestine-IsraelFebruary 27, 2024
Houthi supporters shout slogans while holding up weapons during a protest against the US and Israel and in support of Palestinians, in Sana'a, Yemen, 23 February 2024. EPA
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More than half of UK shipping exporters disrupted by Red Sea crisis

Cost of hiring containers has soared by up to 300 per cent since Yemeni Houthi rebels began attacking commercial vessels in international waterway, UK businesses say

UKFebruary 25, 2024
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London on February 25. PA
Dowden blames Islamist threats for Gaza vote chaos in parliament

Oliver Dowden declines to say if he considers Lee Anderson's remarks about Sadiq Khan to be Islamophobic

UKFebruary 25, 2024
Eli Lew - a patient who was treated at the Cleveland Clinic for a brain injury after a skiing accident - during and after his recovery. Photo: Eli Lew
Cleveland Clinic London's three Rs for recovery from brain and spinal cord injury

Eli Lew describes his recovery at the clinic after a skiing accident that could have left him paralysed

UKFebruary 23, 2024
The Prince of Wales with Chairwoman Liz Padmore and Beatrice Butsana-Sita, British Red Cross Chief Executive, during a visit to the British Red Cross at its headquarters in central London. PA
Prince William calls for end to Israel-Gaza conflict in rare statement

Heir to the UK throne expressed his concern about the 'terrible human cost' of the war

Palestine-IsraelFebruary 20, 2024
Members of the Palestinian civil defence extinguish a fire in a building following Israeli bombardments east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024. AFP
UK charities urge MPs to back motion for immediate Gaza ceasefire

Closed-doors diplomacy is 'not enough' for British campaigners before Wednesday's parliamentary vote on Gaza

UKFebruary 19, 2024
Activists during a protest in Malta. Reuters
Omani minister seeks urgent conference to recognise Palestine

Western powers must drop their binary understanding of the conflict and involve Hamas in peace talks, Sayyid Badr Al Busaidi says

UKFebruary 16, 2024
Dr Ahmed Sherif, an NHS intensive care paediatrician. Dr Ahmed Sherif
Egyptian doctors propping up the NHS see opportunity and struggles

One in five healthcare workers in the UK's NHS are from overseas, the highest percentage on record

HealthFebruary 15, 2024
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