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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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Forces from Yemen's Southern Transitional Council during an operation in Abyan on Monday. Reuters
Yemen's southern movement 'forced to act' by failures of its political rivals

Chatham House event in London focuses on the aftermath of the STC offensive to fill security vacuum

MENADecember 17, 2025
Zarah Sultana, centre, is joined by protesters outside HMP Bronzefield, where a sit-in is now being staged. Photo: Zarah Sultana / X
UK MP holds vigil outside jail holding Palestine Action hunger striker

Activist Qesser Zuhrah 'at immediate risk of dying' from 46-day hunger strike while she awaits trial

UKDecember 17, 2025
Sohail Salem's notebooks chronicle Gaza's sprawling camps. Photo: Saqi Books
Can literature make sense of the devastation wrought on Gaza and its people?

The war - and its catastrophic consequences for Palestinians - has inspired a flurry of books about the 'Dante-esque' enclave it has bequeathed

MENADecember 12, 2025
Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. AFP
UN's Francesca Albanese describes 'profound' personal impact of US sanctions

Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories says 'everything has been cut down'

UKDecember 12, 2025
An activist holds a sign bearing an image of hunger striker Kamran Ahmed outside Woolwich Crown Court. Getty Images
Lawyers warn Palestine Action hunger strikers could die

Members of group banned in UK have been on hunger strike for over a month

UKDecember 11, 2025
The Imperial War Museum and Liberty London fabric Passage of Time. Liberty
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe launches Liberty fabric to symbolise detention

Fabric prints inspired by Imperial War Museum's collection of art created by people imprisoned during conflicts

UKDecember 10, 2025
Two Palestinian children who have been treated in the UK, plus siblings, arrive at Downing Street to meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Photo: Ofrah Muflahi
Gaza child patients meet UK Prime Minister to ask to be reunited with families

Fifty children have travelled from Gaza to Britain for medical treatment since September

UKDecember 09, 2025
It Started in Damascus is a history of the Syrian civil war. Photo: Rime Allaf
Syrians want peace and justice, says author of new history of its civil war

Rime Allaf hopes lessons from the past will help readers understand country's present and options for the future

UKDecember 08, 2025
Several men, some wearing masks, stood outside the Palestinian embassy in London carrying Israeli and British flags. Photo: Palestinian Mission to the UK / Facebook
Palestine embassy in London vandalised by masked men

Group carrying Israeli and British flags were filmed defacing building with slogans

UKDecember 04, 2025
Ghadames, a desert oasis 650km south-west of Tripoli, is set to host a 200MW solar plant project. AFP
Libya seeks renewable energy investment from UK

Authorities in Tripoli are confident that a new renewable energies law will attract investment

MENADecember 03, 2025
UK sanctions on the Central Bank of Syria were lifted earlier this year. EPA
UK issues business rules for push into Syria

Major sanctions were lifted but exemptions are still needed for trading gold, diamonds and luxury goods

UKDecember 03, 2025
Oil tanker Marlin Luanda burning 60 nautical miles south-east of Aden in Yemen after a missile attack by Houthi fighters in 2024. Indian Navy photo handout
UK launches coalition to train Yemen's coastguard

Yemeni forces intercept drugs and weapons headed for Houthi-controlled territory

MENADecember 02, 2025
A plaque commemorating Chaim Herzog in Dublin's Herzog Park. Reuters
Outrage over push to rename Dublin's Herzog Park

Israeli President Isaac Herzog's father Chaim was honoured by city in 1995

UKDecember 01, 2025
Emad is at his house and in a garden near his house. Moawia Atrash for The National
Special reportFrom exile to rebuilding: the Syrians choosing to return home

After the fall of the Assad regime, a small but determined group from Europe and Turkey are going back to help shape Syria's fragile recovery

MENANovember 28, 2025
There is optimism about opportunities for business in Syria, despite sanctions and post-war challenges. AFP
First business delegation from UK since Al Assad's fall heads to Damascus

Investor appetite for Syria is still being tempered by sanctions and security risk

November 28, 2025
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