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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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An untitled work that shows the portrait of an Egyptian woman by Chant Avedissian. Courtesy: Mikealian family
How artist Chant Avedissian put Egypt's Golden Age in the spotlight

The Mikaelian family share their memories of the late Egyptian-Armenian artist and talk through works they have amassed over the decades, now on view as part of exhibition Chant Egyptien

ArtJanuary 11, 2022
Maya Moumne, right, and Hatem Imam, the co-founders of 'Safar' magazine. Photo: Myriam Boulos
The Lebanese design magazine defying all the odds

The creative team is dispersed across the world, but they insist on bringing the publication back to Beirut

BooksDecember 21, 2021
Many English words have originated from Arabic over the centuries - here are just 15. Talib Jariwala / The National
15 English words that originate from Arabic: from sugar to serendipity

December 18 marks UN's World Arabic Language Day

BooksDecember 18, 2021
A visitor looks at Sandro Botticelli's 'The Man of Sorrows' at Sotheby's Dubai in DIFC. Ryan Lim for The National
'The Man of Sorrows': very rare Botticelli unveiled at Sotheby's Dubai

The Old Masters masterpiece is set to go on sale in New York in January next year

ArtDecember 13, 2021
A photo of the Stone Garden, centre, by Lina Ghotmeh and Beirut’s port in the background before the August 2020 blast. Photo: Iwan Baan
The Lebanese architect offering an innovative approach to sustainable design

Lina Ghotmeh has caught the attention of Dezeen Awards for her building Stone Garden in Beirut

ArtDecember 06, 2021
Talia Collis, Still from Yemenight, United States, 2020 New-York, Talia Collis ©Talia Collis -2
Paris exhibition explores Jewish history in Middle East and North Africa

The Institut du Monde Arabe's new show runs until March 2022

ArtNovember 28, 2021
Etel Adnan's 'Landscape', 2014, was one of 1600 works donated by Claude & France Lemand to the Institut du Monde Arabe. Photo: Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan's paintings will continue to shine bright after her death

The prolific writer and poet shot to fame for her bright abstract paintings in the last decade of her life

ArtNovember 15, 2021
'Pollinator Pathmaker, Digital rendering of Eden Project Edition Garden 1' (detail), 2021. The work is originally commissioned by the Eden Project and funded by Garfield Weston Foundation. Photo: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
A 'living artwork' for insects aims to step into the world of other species

The work called 'Pollinator Pathmaker' aims to protect endangered pollinators by creating an environment that supports their reproduction

Arts & CultureNovember 06, 2021
'The Flow of Time' by artist Nicola Anthony is at the UK Pavilion of Expo 2020 Dubai. Singapore Art Museum
Artworks at Cop26 that shed light on the world's climate crisis

A round-up of some of the works and installations highlighting today's environmental crisis

ArtNovember 03, 2021
A Yanomani shaman interacts with spirits during an ascent to the Pico da Neblina, State of Amazonas, Brazil, 2014. It is one of the images by Salgado as part of the new exhibition Amazonia. Sebastiao Salgado / nbpictures
Amazonia showcases Amazon rainforest's beauty and destruction

The travelling photo exhibition, curated by filmmaker Lelia Wanick Salgado, is currently on display at London’s Science Museum

ArtOctober 31, 2021
Work on view as part of Majd Abdel Hamid's exhibition A Stitch in Times at La Verriere in Brussels. Photo: Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermes
Majd Abdel Hamid's new exhibition deals with themes of trauma through embroidery

The artist uses the traditional Palestinian art form to highlight the atrocities of conflict in his first European solo show

ArtOctober 26, 2021
Installation view of Bani Abidi's The Man Who Talked Until He Disappeared on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 'Karachi Series', 2009. Photo: courtesy of the artist and Experimenter, Kolkata. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
How Pakistani artist Bani Abidi's new US show represents the Global South

The retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is organised in collaboration with the Sharjah Art Foundation

ArtOctober 24, 2021
Installation view of Lights of Lebanon, an exhibition now on at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France. Centre, Yazan Halawani's 'Aeroport' (2019). Photo: Institut du Monde Arabe
Paris exhibition shines a light on Lebanon's artists: 'This is what we could do'

Franco-Lebanese collector and co-curator Claude Lemand is behind a new show that sheds light on Lebanese art from the 1950s to present day

ArtOctober 18, 2021
Self-taught sculptor Maitham Abdal uses digital methods to create his artworks. Photo: Maitham Abdal
Self-taught Kuwaiti sculptor Maitham Abdal on carving a niche using digital techniques

The artist explains his modern approach to sculpting and why he prefers to represent himself online

ArtOctober 14, 2021
'Third Family' (2011) by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is on display as part of the show Art Unlimited at Art Basel 2021. EPA
Art Basel: which Middle Eastern artists are showing at art fair?

A selection of artists from the region will showcase work at the prestigious Swiss fair, which runs until Sunday

ArtSeptember 23, 2021
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