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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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British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah embraces his mother and sister after he was released in September. AFP
Richard Ratcliffe defends calls to release Abdel Fattah

Activist's comments 'indefensible' but human rights apply to all, says husband of former hostage

UKDecember 31, 2025
A late flurry of IPOs helped to boost the London stock market in 2025. Getty Images
London stock market delivers strongest year since 2021

UK public investment expected to grow by £13bn in 2026-27, while businesses are likely to hold back

MarketsDecember 31, 2025
Ten11 Cafe opens in London on Hyde Park Corner. Lemma Shehadi / The National
Abu Dhabi's Ten11 cafe launches in London

Cafe aims to bring an Emirati twist to classics for London patrons

UKDecember 31, 2025
Patrick McCabe has been working in Gaza since November 2023. Getty Images
Gaza aid worker named in New Year Honours List

Landmine expert Patrick McCabe honoured alongside diplomat Alison McEwen

UKDecember 29, 2025
Mustafa Suleyman became chief executive of Microsoft AI last year. AFP
British-Syrian AI boss calls for a 'humanist' AI

Microsoft AI chief executive and Deepmind co-founder says fear of AI is 'healthy and necessary'

TechnologyDecember 29, 2025
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
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