Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Correspondent at The Guardian
Guardian journalist and author of A Stranger in Your Own City.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad |Mo Ayoub
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Mustafa was 16 when he was detained and beaten by the police for the first time. It was early 2011, and the first stirrings of the Arab spring had grown into anti-government demonstrations across the Middle East. In Syria, a sense of anxious anticipation hung in the air, and the government was responding with propaganda films and TV shows designed to fire up nationalist sentiment. A friend of Mustafa’s hired him to play an extra in one of these shows.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad |Sarah Agha. Originally
Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from February: Ever since the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, many have been living in dejection and squalor in camps like Shatila in Beirut. Is this the grim future the people of Gaza could now be facing?
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Jul 10, 2024 |
academic.oup.com | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi writer and journalist who has spent more than a decade working on this magnum opus, chronicling Iraq and its wars through the modern age. The book feels and reads like a semi-autobiography, occasionally moving into a diary format before evolving into a full-on war correspondent's report on the battle for Mosul that started in 2016.
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Apr 12, 2024 |
thehindu.com | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad |Swati Daftuar
Travel can be transformative, and great travel writing can be transformative too. A good travel book can feel both like a trip already taken but also one you cannot wait to take. Here’s a selection of recent titles on travel and destinations, from the wildernesses of India to the adventures of an early historical feminist.
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