I wrote for ⁦⁦New Lines Magazine⁩ about ongoing the ‘war’ on journalism in India. Reflected on my experience covering #DelhiRiots and the pandemic. Originally written as a ⁦Columbia Journalism School⁩ assignment Do give it a read. #PressFreedom #Journalism newlinesmag.com/reportage/in-i…

I just love Baghdad so much احلى مدينة

We welcome Pesha Magid (Pesha Magid) from Columbia Journalism School to our Post-Grad Reporting Fellow team! She has covered the Middle East since 2012, and will report on civilians killed in the fight against ISIS for her Pulitzer-supported project. Welcome, Pesha!

My long read on sex #trafficking in #Iraq is out as part of our People and Power - Al Jazeera investigation. Through exclusive access to authorities, traffickers and survivors, it sheds light on the power structures that fuel the exploitation of girls. 1/ THREAD 🧵 aje.io/oqc5yc

The Cairo Appeals Prosecution summoned Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah and journalists Rana Mamdouh, Sara Seif Eddin and Beesan Kassab for interrogation tomorrow at the Public Prosecution office in Rehab.

With 100s of complaints filed by Nation's Future Party members in an attempt to impugn Mada's journalistic standards, we introduce you to the 4 journalists facing legal action—Lina Attalah, Rana Mamdouh, Beesan Kassab & Sara Seif Eddin— and share how they built their practice.

Five stops along the Tigris river's 1,500-kilometre course through Iraq to document the ecological disaster forcing people to change their lifestyle. In Mesopotamia, cradle of civilisation, human activity + climate change threaten the Tigris today AFP News Agency bit.ly/3dsrI8p

CJR fellow Pesha Magid (Pesha Magid) talks with Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, one of Egypt's last independent news sites, who has been charged under the country's "fake news" law for reporting on turmoil within Egypt's governing party cjr.org/q_and_a/lina-a…

How a rare effort to compensate Iraqi airstrike victims failed interc.pt/3DFPwjn by Pesha Magid

After a U.S.-planned airstrike killed at least 80 Iraqi civilians in 2015, the Dutch government offered 4.4 million Euros in reconstruction aid (their F-16 dropped the bomb) . Nothing went to the airstrike victims, as Pesha Magid reports. theintercept.com/2022/10/29/ira…

In 2015, a bombing by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq killed at least 85 civilians in the northern town of Hawija. Money promised to the town by the Dutch government has yet to reach survivors and their families, reports Fellow Pesha Magid for The Intercept. bit.ly/3WnmUD4

How Egypt wanted #COP27 to go vs how it’s going It’s all because of Sanaa and her relentless fight for her brother #AlaaAbdelFattah’s freedom

Iraqi journalists watch Telegram, and Telegram is watching them back, by Pesha Magid cjr.org/the_feature/ir…

#Iraq: #CFWIJ condemns overnight imprisonment of #SomaKhalid. We believe this is an intimidation following her reporting illuminating inadequacies of management at Sulaimani’s Shar Hospital. #CFWIJ holds authorities accountable for use of censorious methods against #freepress.

Murat Bayram reports on the earthquake—and the government’s failings—in Turkey cjr.org/the_profile/tu…

A story I have been working on for a while is FINALLY out. It’s about how Germany’s colonial legacy still lives within people in Namibia today - and a few other things. 🧵

It’s about how remembrance culture - or lack thereof - shapes how citizens of the same country see each other. And it’s about how completely different realities can exist side by side but somehow never meet. There is something really tragic but also fascinating about that.

“People either have their land or the grave,” said Commander Abwa Ali of the Polisario Front. My and Andrea Prada Bianchi article in Foreign Policy on how the Polisario’s often undercovered conflict with Morocco raises tensions across the Maghreb. tinyurl.com/bddxbtw5

In a dispatch from Western Sahara, Andrea Prada Bianchi and Pesha Magid chart the legacy of Spanish occupation to today’s fight for independence from Morocco. buff.ly/3Jv7zv6

In a dispatch from Western Sahara, Andrea Prada Bianchi and Pesha Magid chart the legacy of Spanish colonization to today’s fight for independence from Morocco. buff.ly/3Jv7zv6