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Middle East Correspondent for @nytimes. Email: [email protected]

Beirut, Lebanon
Joined April 2009
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For a year, my colleague @ScheckNYTimes and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found. nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world…
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I was at the Novaya Gazeta yesterday as its reporters and editors packed up and held their final editorial meeting at Potapovsky Pereulok. The newspaper survived so much, but it could not survive Russia's war in Ukraine. One reader I talked to described the disappearance of the Novaya as a "spiral of silence," saying: “When voices like these disappear from public life, it starts to feel like there are fewer and fewer people who think differently, like you’re alone in what you believe,” said a 21-year-old reader, Danila, a recent university graduate with a degree in computer programming. He asked that his last name not be published, to avoid trouble with the authorities. “The less you hear people expressing views different from the official narrative,” he said, “the harder it gets to speak up yourself.” nytimes.com/2026/11/10/world…
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We remember Melanie Greer Huff, who guided generations of students during her nearly 40 years at Columbia Journalism School. She joined the J-School as an office assistant and worked in admissions, career and academic services and student life before becoming dean of students.
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A Kenyan mother with a year-old has been sentenced in Saudi Arabia to 100 lashes and a year of banishment for childbirth outside marriage. “I am so afraid,” Esther Wanja Muthoni, whom we profiled in our investigation into domestic workers last year, said nytimes.com/2026/11/10/world…
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Breaking News: Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat, has won Michigan’s Senate race, according to The Associated Press. He will become the first Muslim senator when he is seated in January. nyti.ms/3X5nFoP
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Really thrilled to see Spencer Ackerman’s review of “Seasons of Fury: Four families and the rise of Islamophobia in America,” on the front page of NYT Book review this weekend
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BREAKING NEWS: Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui has won her second New York City Marathon title after edging compatriot Hellen Obiri in the final mile to finish in 2:24:36. American Jess McClain finished second in 2:24:42, ahead of Obiri in 2:24:43.
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Abdul El-Sayed fears that high-profile attacks have compromised his safety—but he also argues that they’ve given him “one of the biggest and best platforms.” newyorker.com/news/the-polit…
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Powerful and haunting story by @khoureld and @hafiz54472061 about the bravery and tenacity of a group of Sudanese doctors, volunteers and nurses in El Fasher who stayed to save lives as a genocidal militia besieged their beloved city. economist.com/interactive/18…
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A ceasefire agreement in Gaza has not stopped what a group of independent experts commissioned by the U.N. says is genocide carried out by Israel in the territory. They also accused Israeli forces of crimes against humanity in the West Bank. wapo.st/4BOSqP5
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A Cairo court moved to shut down Mada Masr, one of the last independent publications in Egypt, on the grounds that its editor, Lina Attalah, was running the news site without a license. wapo.st/4i83y1z
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CPJ condemns the conviction of Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news outlet @MadaMasr, on charges of running an unlicensed website. We call on Egyptian authorities to reverse the ruling, release the journalist immediately, and end their escalating campaign against independent journalism. Read CPJ's statement ⤵️ cpj.org/2026/10/cpj-outraged…
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قررت الدائرة التاسعة بمحكمة جنح القاهرة الجديدة، برئاسة المستشار محمد مبارك، معاقبة رئيسة تحرير «مدى مصر»، لينا عطالله، بغرامة قدرها ثلاثة ملايين جنيه، في اتهامها بإدارة موقع بدون ترخيص، وغلق «مدى مصر»، وهو الحكم الذي أعقبه احتجاز عطاالله على يد قوات الأمن. المدير التنفيذي للمبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية، حسام بهجت، الذي حضر الجلسة، أوضح لـ«مدى مصر» أنه بعد رفع الجلسة إثر تمسك الدفاع بطلبه الحصول على وقت كافٍ للاطلاع على أوراق القضية، أمر القاضي بإخلاء القاعة بالكامل باستثناء «المتهمة» وفريق الدفاع الحاضر عنها، ما تبعه امتلاء القاعة بضباط وحرس بزي مدني، وحضور ضابط «الأمن الوطني». بعدها، خرج رئيس المحكمة وممثل نيابة أمن الدولة، وأعلن رئيس المحكمة أنها قررت التمسك برفض جميع الدفوع الإجرائية المقدمة من الدفاع، بما في ذلك ضم أي مستندات أو سماع أي شهود، قبل أن يطلب من فريق الدفاع تقديم مرافعته، والذي تمسك بعدم الترافع في ظل عدم الاستجابة للطلبات المقدمة، ليطلب القاضي فجأة إدخال أحد المحامين غير المعلومين لأي من أفراد فريق الدفاع، «وفي تصرف مذهل لجميع الحاضرين» أعلن القاضي أن المحكمة قررت انتداب محامي للدفاع عن المتهمة. عند تلك النقطة تعالت صيحات جميع أعضاء فريق الدفاع رفضًا لحضور محامي منتدب في ضوء حضور المحامين الأصليين الثمانية، فيما تحدث لينا عطالله نفسها، وأعلنت رفضها حضور هذا المحامي عنها، وهو ما رفض رئيس المحكمة تسجيله في محضر الجلسة. «وفي تصرف أكثر إثارة للصدمة»، شرع رئيس المحكمة بنفسه في تسجيل طلبات المحامي المنتدب في محضر الجلسة، دون حتى أن ينطق المحامي بكلمة من الأصل، قبل أن يبدأ القاضي في تلاوة حكم الإدانة، وسط صراخ وصيحات اعتراض فريق الدفاع، مقررًا إدانة لينا عطاالله ومعاقبتها بالعقوبة الأقصى، وهي الغرامة بمبلغ ثلاثة ملايين جنيه وغلق موقع «مدى مصر» ومصادرة المُعدات والأجهزة. وبعدها فوجئ الحاضرون بأفراد الأمن يحيطون بلينا عطاالله، ويحملونها من على الأرض إلى خارج القاعة، حيث لا تزال إلى الآن محتجزة.
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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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Breaking News: Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians in the West Bank, injuring several people, including a Washington Post journalist. nyti.ms/3U0sT44
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A Bangladeshi pilgrim, an Egyptian flight attendant and a Palestinian retiree were among at least 13 people killed & 300+ wounded when the Houthis attacked Riyadh's intl airport Saturday. Our story from the survivors, and the loved ones left behind: nytimes.com/2026/10/14/world…
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Breaking News: Homeland Security agents executed a search warrant at the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. The Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative moves related to political candidates so close to elections. nyti.ms/3Un76Uv
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Sky's @joncraig speaks to the newly elected MP Sagal Abdi-Wali, asking how she first got into politics to her priorities as she heads into the Commons. Follow along on our live blog ➡️ trib.al/zM0vdF1
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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has appointed Marrakesh’s long-time mayor, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, as the country’s first female prime minister after her party won last week’s parliamentary election. The 50-year-old becomes the second woman in the Arab world to lead a government.
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