In this week’s The Guardian Long Read I wrote the story of my assault in Cairo, more here: theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

After I was assaulted, I posted a photo of my injuries. The reaction I craved was not pity, but anger

by Rena Effendi

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Congratulations to the #WPPh2024 Contest regional winners, selected by an independent jury out of 61,062 entries by 3,851 photographers from 130 countries.

Learn more about the awarded stories and why the jury selected them: worldpressphoto.org/news/2024/2024…

World Press Photo 2024 regional winners – in pictures theguardian.com/media/gallery/…

Thrilled to see that 'Looking for Satyrus', my personal quest in search of a rare butterfly named after my father, which inhabits the war border between Azerbaijan and Armenia, is recognized in this year's World Press Photo contest! worldpressphoto.org/collection/pho…

In April's Monocle Magazine, Rena Effendi and I travel the route of the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway, tracing shifting relations in the Caucasus. The only problem: none of it is possible to travel by train.
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What an enchanting story from Ben Hubbard and Ivor Prickett

A Stork, a Fisherman and Their Unlikely Bond Enchant Turkey nytimes.com/2024/03/30/wor…

Great review of Ghaith ‘s book A Stranger in Your own City: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

In what was once Nagorno Karabkah, the environment has become both a victim and weapon of war. Rena Effendi and I spent a week there untangling the claims and counter-claims, with funding from the wonderful Pulitzer Center. Our piece for Foreign Policy: foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/27/nag…

A story I photographed with text by Hannah Lucinda Smith The Land That Was Once Nagorno-Karabakh - A contested environmental legacy looms over three decades of conflict. foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/27/nag…

Powerful and poignant read by Ghaith ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

We must hold each other’s grief, through truth and justice.

We must step into difficult territory.

Because all lives are sacred.

This will never end until the occupation is over.

We must have peace within this generation. We owe it to our children, and to the thousands of

The Edward Stanford Award 2024 Shortlist is finally here! Congratulations to all the incredible Authors that are Shortlisted for
The Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 🏆👏
Mary Colwell Leon McCarron Tom Parfitt Tim Hannigan Ghaith Alice Albinia

Because all lives are sacred. Because I believe in the power of the human heart. Because we need to be clear and open and do everything we can for a better world. #CeasefireNow

Shelling on south Lebanon border kills one journalist and injures six theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

Check out Ghaith Abdul-Ahad & Gordon Corera: The Long Shadow of War at edbookfest edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/w…

“There was… an hour of freedom, when the dictatorship fell and before the Americans entered the streets.” Ghaith’s important new book A Stranger in Your Own City chronicles the experiences of ordinary Iraqi civilians as America invaded – and the effects two decades on.

“20 years later there is no accountability” for the Iraq War, says Ghaith. “You know what this war achieved? Endless sectarian killing… created this nostalgia for the strongman… All dictators benefit from that illusion it’s the strongman who will stop a civil war.”

A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad review – 20 years of frustration and fury in Iraq | History books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2023/mar…

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