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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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The writer Sally Rooney had a statement published in The Irish Times that would now be illegal under British law. AFP
UK warns author Sally Rooney after pledge to fund banned Palestine Action

Award-winning Irish author had pledged to donate to campaign group now banned in Britain

UKAugust 18, 2025
The reconstructed face. Photo: Cicero Moraes
Recreating an ancient Egyptian priestess's face without opening the sarcophagus

Part artist, part scientist, Cicero Moraes devoted his life to rebuilding the visages of saints and historical figures. But then he fell under the spell of a mummy called Meresamun ...

MENAAugust 15, 2025
Belgium's Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prevot arrives at the emergency meeting on Gaza on Thursday. EPA
Belgium’s foreign minister urges Palestine recognition 'before there is nothing left'

Maxime Prevot said Belgium's efforts to support the Palestinian cause could be undermined by a failure to recognise the state in September

EuropeAugust 15, 2025
Graduation day at the London School of Economics, which draws more than 70 per cent of its fee income from international students. Getty.
Tax on international student fees is a 'shadow looming large' over UK universities

A 6% levy would make institutions less competitive globally – hitting research and teaching budgets, says report

UKAugust 08, 2025
A large protest banner, installed on scaffolding opposite the headquarters of the Labour Party in July, contests the proscription of Palestine Action. Getty Images
Palestine Action claims 200 arrested supporters have not been charged

Group plans further demonstrations in defiance of proscription order

UKAugust 06, 2025
Craig and Lindsay Foreman at Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran, days before they were arrested by Iranian authorities. Photo: Family handout / AFP
‘We laughed, we cried’: Family speak to UK detainees in Tehran for first time

Lindsay Foreman's son relieved to hear mother's voice after seven months of detention

UKAugust 06, 2025
The Labour leader Keir Starmer and Andrew Feinstein. Getty Images / The National
Hard-left challenge to Starmer marches on

Opponent Andrew Feinstein says UK's conditional recognition is 'deeply offensive' to the Palestinian struggle

UKAugust 06, 2025
Craig and Lindsay Foreman were detained as they travelled across Iran by motorbike. Photo: Joe Bennett
Son fears for UK couple sent to separate Iranian jails after months in detention

Lindsay Foreman's son fears for her health after she was moved to notorious jail

UKAugust 05, 2025
Majd Al Shagnobi, 15, from Gaza, whose jaw was shattered by an Israeli tank shell strike in February 2024, on a plane to London with Omar Din, co-founder of Project Pure Hope. Photo: Project Pure Hope
UK taskforce set up to bring injured children from Gaza

Up to 300 children injured in Gaza could get NHS care, while a UK charity continues its work for privately-funded evacuations.

UKAugust 04, 2025
There are growing calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to announce that the UK will recognise a state of Palestine without ifs and buts. PA
UK urged to recognise state of Palestine without delay

Prime Minister Keir Starmer under increasing public and political pressure to drop conditions

UKAugust 02, 2025
The false claims about people who frequently travel are 'designed to cause undue alarm', said the tax authority. PA
UK tax authority warns of fake social media posts

Viral video claiming Britain is tracking people's travel is disinformation, says HMRC

UKJuly 31, 2025
A protest outside the Foreign Office in London by the campaign group Na'amod and Mi-Neged. Photo: Lia Na'ama Ten Brink
UK Jewish body calls for open Gaza aid amid Starmer row

The Board of Deputies set out concerns over the UK recognising a Palestinian state

UKJuly 30, 2025
Campaigners outside court in London, where Palestine Action won its bid to proceed with a legal challenge against a government decision to designate the group a terrorist organisation. PA
High Court grants Palestine Action bid to challenge terrorist ban

Protest group can now legally contest UK government decision

UKJuly 30, 2025
A suspect is detained by police for alleged possession of a dangerous weapon in Elephant and Castle, south London. Getty Images
Report calls for tougher policing to tackle London's soaring knife crime

Former top officer urges UK capital to bring back controversial stop and search

UKJuly 30, 2025
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy meets Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara at the Presidential Palace in Damascus. Sana
Frustration with UK over slow-walk Damascus ties as embassy remains closed

After a quick embrace, Britain trails in race to establish diplomatic presence in Syria

UKJuly 29, 2025
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