Middle East Eye
Mar 2023 — Present · 3 yrs 8 mos
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Contributor
Mar 2023 — Present3 yrs 8 mos
CurrentWriting exclusive essays on Egypt's political situation. One piece received broad Arabic media coverage, exposing Cairo's refusal to issue birth certificates and passports for children of politically active Egyptians born in Turkey.
What it drew on
- Investigative Reporting
- Video Production
- Human Rights Reporting
Current Affairs
From the archive · 4
Egyptian on hunger strike in Dutch prison after asylum rejection and pending deportation
Egyptian children in Turkey left in limbo amid Cairo’s refusal to issue birth certificates
'I was drained': Egypt's harsh prison life pulls marriages apart
Egyptian exiles denied passports as government seeks to bring them home
Featured project
2023
Women of Rabaa
Produced the “Women of Rabaa” video series documenting massacre survivors' testimonies.
I produced a series of long-form filmed testimonies for MEE featuring women who took part in the Rabaa sit-in or witnessed the massacre unfold. The series brought together multiple perspectives, including women who participated, lived in the surrounding neighbourhood, or opposed the sit-in from the beginning. It was produced a decade later, when the English-language record remained limited.
- 1 of 4Women of Rabaa: 'The bullets rained down on us,' says survivor Jehan Maher AqlA witness to the massacre, on the day itself and on what survivors carried afterwards.
- 2 of 4Women of Rabaa: Muslim activists sidelined in Egypt since the massacre, says Heba ZakariaA journalist and eyewitness, on how Muslim women activists were pushed to the margins of the coverage that followed.
- 3 of 4Women of Rabaa: Hafsa Ali saw the massacre unfold in real timeA resident of the Rabaa neighbourhood who watched the assault from steps away as it happened.
- 4 of 4Women of Rabaa: Shorouq Amjad on Tamarod, Morsi's ouster and the massacreOnce an activist in Tamarod, which campaigned for Morsi's ouster — on what led to the massacre and what came after.
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Editor
Apr 2024 — Nov 20248 mos
Freelance editor specialising in political content for social media platforms.
What it drew on
- Social Editing
- Political Coverage
Current Affairs
Made for Middle East Eye · 253 posts
Carousels, graphics and Reels I made for Middle East Eye, from my own record of them. The strongest fifty are held on this site in full — every slide of every album and the film itself — so they read here whatever happens to them at source; the rest keep their figures, their date and their link. They are ordered by what each reached: by views where a post has them — Instagram counts them on films and not on photographs — and by likes where it does not, both in one list. All of it went out on the outlet's other platforms as well — Facebook, X and TikTok — where it was seen thousands, tens of thousands and in places hundreds of thousands of times. Rather than crowd the page with four links to every post, only the Instagram ones are given here.
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This is part of what I made for them, not all of it. Social work is published under the outlet's name rather than mine, so there is no author archive to draw on — these are the ones I kept, added as examples.