Arabic Graduate, Masters Student - Blogging on the Middle East -
Piece for KettleMag on Monday about the Priti Patel // Israel fiasco: Priti Patel, the International Development Secretary, has been accused of running her own “freelance foreign policy” on Israel, following a BBC report that revealed the Conservative minister held several undisclosed meetings whilst on holiday in August. The Conservative MP for Witham has since apologised, […]
As published in the first October 2017 edition of Exepose, the University of Exeter student newspaper. Featured in the print edition. More than a year has passed since the divisive vote for Britain to leave the European Union, and the country remains as polarised as ever. Early ‘Remainer’ appetite for a second referendum, based on […]
Very brief article for KettleMag outlining Islamic State defeat in Hawija. Read here: On the 5th October, Islamic State was driven out of their last major position in Iraq, the town of Hawija, after only two weeks of fighting. Lieutenant-General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah, joint operations commander for the offensive, declared the area liberated from Islamic […]
First published on kettlemag.com following the recent independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan. Read here: “Do you want the Kurdistan Region and Kurdish areas outside of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to become an independent state?” On Wednesday evening, the result of the controversial referendum on full independence for Iraqi Kurdistan was announced: “yes”. A total of 92.73% […]
Commissioned by kettlemag.co.uk to briefly write about the role played by fixers in journalism worldwide. Read here:
As first seen in Kettle Mag: Following talks in Cairo on Wednesday, an embargo of the tiny Middle East peninsular of Qatar will continue, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has announced, and further steps may follow. As the deadline for Qatar to accept a severe 13-point list of demands expired, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, […]
First published on Kettle Mag —— For most people planning their next holiday or trip away, the Middle East may not quite enter onto their radar. Sadly, this is a region that rarely escapes the news, often for the wrong reasons, and it is true that the British Foreign Office would rather we avoided certain […]
The latest resurfacing of Izzat al-Douri, former Vice President of Iraq and Saddam Hussein’s trusted deputy, has once again turned the media limelight to Ba’athism in Iraq, but make no mistakes; Ba’athism in Iraq is dead. In a wide-ranging interview with Tunisian paper Acharaa Al-Maghrebi on Monday, al-Douri denies the presence (in Arabic) of former […]