Media coverage from the ground in places like Algeria, Oman, northern Somalia & Egypt's southern Nubia is extremely rare. But New Lines Magazine this week Algeria newlinesmag.com/reportage/into… Oman newlinesmag.com/reportage/oman… Nubia newlinesmag.com/spotlight/how-… Somaliland newlinesmag.com/reportage/insi…

An undercovered story from the Gulf, with stunning, striking images by Reem Falaknaz. Words by Anna Zacharias #Oman newlinesmag.com/reportage/oman…

Amulets with shackled jinn, filigree'd khanjar daggers, three-inch bangles - Omani jewellery is renowned in the Gulf and women are now the ones at the forge. My story for New Lines Magazine, with photos by Reem Falaknaz bit.ly/441TVaj

#Echoesofwar is a new project by Richard McElligott exploring the legacy of #IrishcivilWar across North Kerry. Richard is looking to interview relatives of those who took part to preserve the oral history of their experiences. If interested please get in touch echoesofcivilwar.com/contact-us/

.Anna Zacharias is always a pleasure to read: Ireland’s short but brutal civil war ripped apart communities but, for decades, was rarely talked about. Its impact on Irish society is only now being reassessed, thanks to newly released archives. In New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/essays/coming-…

I wrote this before Gaza's pulverization and sometimes, in a sad way, it gives small hope: that where I live, not so long ago, quaint streets and wooded valleys were settings of horrific atrocities and now Ireland is a place of refuge and peace newlinesmag.com/essays/coming-…

Was delighted to speak to Anna Zacharias for the American publication New Lines Magazine New Lines Magazine about the Civil War in Ireland, particularly in Kerry Contributions also from Síobhra Aiken and Richard McElligott CivilWarInKerry Merrion Press newlinesmag.com/essays/coming-…

In DUBAI?

“If I must die Let it be a tale.” — Refaat Al Areer

On the Gulf, Anna Zacharias’s work is always a joy to read. A single cuneiform tablet provided the basis for reconstructing a 4,000-year-old vessel For New Lines Magazine, she follows the efforts of a group of archaeologists in the UAE to set sail, Bronze Age style. newlinesmag.com/essays/a-bronz…

Loved writing this for New Lines Magazine - Construction for this Bronze Age boat relied on a clay cuneiform tablet, the size of a smartphone, buried for nearly 4,100 years in modern-day Iraq newlinesmag.com/essays/a-bronz…

NEW: In Ireland, Feb. 1 is St. Brigid’s day. As the country grapples with revelations of abuse by the Catholic Church, Brigid’s antiestablishment and pagan representations have made her a saint for our times, writes Anna Zacharias for New Lines Magazine.com. newlinesmag.com/essays/brigid-…

Happy St. Brigid’s day, Ireland! A lovely piece on how saints are reappropriated. Some now worship Brigid as a pagan goddess, despite the many historical records showing her as a real (and badass) 5th century woman Anna Zacharias for New Lines Magazine.com. newlinesmag.com/essays/brigid-…

1 Feb 1620: David Rothe, bishop of #Ossory delivers a huge sermon in praise of St. Brigid at the #Irish College #Paris #otd He spoke, at length, of centuries of Franco-Irish links. It was published by Cramoisy of Rue St Jacques. #LaFheileBride #StBrigidsDay

Some of the many forms of St Brigid’s crosses.

Beannachtaí na féile Bríde chughat! St Brigid’s fire, from a manuscript of Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hiberniae (Royal MS 13 B VIII, f.23v) held at the British Library. The fire was tended by a small group of nuns. The fire never went out.

Move over, St Patrick. Delighted to write this story for New Lines Magazine on a badass saint who ‘undid’ a pregnancy for a nun, shared her bed and life with a woman and has been re-invented since the fifth century. She is LOVED in Ireland, and rightly so. bit.ly/4aOkk0j

Love this St Brigid's tale from Killarney

"Central to her charm was her championing of everyday people." Anna Zacharias writes on St. Brigid, the Irish saint played down by the Catholic Church but resurrected by modern acolytes as a pagan fire goddess. newlinesmag.com/essays/brigid-…

In a rural Irish town, court returns to the Gaeltacht: dances licences, Christmas fireworks and two trolleys of alcohol - my weekend feature for The Kerryman independent.ie/regionals/kerr…