Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda (Wizard_bisan1) has won The Emmy Award for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form for her report on Israel’s attack on Al-Shifa Hospital where she was sheltering titled ‘It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive’.

What an insane thing to say about a country you’ve been bombing since the late 70s.

this all happened this week: -martial law declared in South Korea and failed in a matter of hours -French government collapsed -assassination of healthcare CEO in the US -collapse of Assad regime some weeks are like whole lifetimes

As myriad Syrians celebrate and many make preparations to come home, this is a good moment to also remember how awful so many people, especially in the West, were to Syrian refugees, how they demonized them and dismissed their stories and heartbreak and plight.

It's taken a while, maybe because I'm sleep-deprived or maybe because I just almost couldn't let myself believe it, but now it's hitting hard. For the first time this morning, I spoke freely with my family in Syria. There was no beating around the bush, no watching our language

This footage is from the Red part in Sednaya prison. Watch it on mute. Look at the faces, the pale, the skeletons that forgot how to walk, the detainee carrying what’s left of his fellow. #Syria

This is the kind of rigorously balanced news journalism that we all need much more of

I can't stand it when people say "the first Western journalist to report from". Who cares? What is it supposed to mean? That their reporting will be somehow better than the local journalists already there? Puts me in mind of colonisers "discovering" other people's countries.

It’s amazing to see how Western media have suddenly rediscovered that torture is evil, after ignoring systematic torture, rape and murder in Israeli prisons for the past year.

A reminder to foreign journalists descending on Damascus: prisoners are human beings who deserve dignity and should not be treated recklessly or used as pathways for clicks. Please treat people with the dignity that they’ve been deprived of for decades.

This piece, which minimizes the genocide in Gaza, is on the main The New York Times page while there’s zero coverage of the horror Israel unleashed at Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza

The The New York Times put Rukmini Callimachi back on the ISIS beat 4 years after her “Caliphate” podcast on ISIS was largely retracted due to the main character fabricating his tale about joining the group.

Israelis love to say Palestinians could’ve turned Gaza into the “Singapore of the Middle East” if only they stopped resisting occupation & focused on development. But every time Palestinians tried, Israel got in the way. This explainer tells the story of how Israel destroyed

Don’t worry about me — the thing I’m best at is laughing. And don’t be scared, I’m strong and can handle myself. What matters is that you stay alive and leave Gaza for the world. This is what my friend Fatima told me before she was martyred this morning in an airstrike

“His smile is like the moon. He used to smile at everyone.” That’s what a family friends said about Ahmed Abu al-Rous, a 12-year-old with disabilities, who Israel killed along with 10 others in its latest tent attack.

For this to have been a deliberate act — which it plainly was — consider what that means. A person within the IDF saw the news that Fatma’s film was accepted into Cannes. He/she/they then proposed assassinating her. Other people reviewed the suggestion and approved it. Then other

How does a headline like this not stop the world in its tracks?

I’m the host and producer of this documentary about the Mississippi Delta Chinese video & also cultural consultant on SinnersMovie! Ryan Coogler and his team were meticulous about the details—truly an honor to see nonfiction enter the fiction space in this spectacular way.