Yasmeen Altaji

Abu Dhabi, Chicago

Assistant Podcast Producer at The National

Podcasts @TheNationalNews | Founder @thewordmideast | ✍️/🎙️ @AJEnglish @BBC @MiddleEastEye | @ColumbiaJourn + @MedillSchool + @BienenSchoolNU

Featured in: Favicon

thewordmideast.com Favicon

axios.com

aljazeera.com Favicon

middleeasteye.net Favicon

chicagoreporter.com Favicon

wnur.org

theassyrianjournal.com Favicon

thenationalnews.com Favicon

msn.com

theworld.org

Articles

Israel storms UNRWA schools and Emirates posts record revenues

1 week ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

Mercer, the investment consulting arm of US services company Marsh & McLennan, expects its wealth division to at least double its assets under management (AUM) in the Middle East as wealth in the region continues to grow despite economic headwinds, a company official said. Mercer Wealth, which globally has $160 billion in AUM, plans to boost its AUM in the region to $2-$3bn in the next 2-3 years from the present $1bn, said Yasir AbuShaban, a Dubai-based principal with Mercer Wealth.
India-Pakistan escalation and what's next in the US-Houthi ceasefire

1 week ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

Tension between India and Pakistan is escalating. The US is potentially shifting its attention away from the Houthis in Yemen. A Lebanese border region has become a flashpoint for conflict with Syria.
Aid groups boycott Israeli expansion in Gaza, and Shara to meet Macron

1 week ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

International NGOs are boycotting an expanded Israeli offensive in Gaza. Syrian leader Ahmad Al Shara is set to meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday. The Israeli military says it has attacked Houthi targets in Yemen, including the airport in Sanaa and several major power stations in the area, a day after it hit the port of Hodeidah.
Israel and Houthis exchange threats, and ICJ drops Sudan-UAE case | The National

1 week ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

Mercer, the investment consulting arm of US services company Marsh & McLennan, expects its wealth division to at least double its assets under management (AUM) in the Middle East as wealth in the region continues to grow despite economic headwinds, a company official said. Mercer Wealth, which globally has $160 billion in AUM, plans to boost its AUM in the region to $2-$3bn in the next 2-3 years from the present $1bn, said Yasir AbuShaban, a Dubai-based principal with Mercer Wealth.
Israel vows retaliation for Houthi strike and an attack in Sudan

1 week ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

€39 million: Liverpool agreed a fee, including add-ons, in the region of €39m (nearly Dh176m) to sign Salah from Roma last year. The exchange rate at the time meant that cost the Reds £34.3m - a bargain given his performances since. 13: The 25-year-old player was not a complete stranger to the Premier League when he arrived at Liverpool this summer. However, during his previous stint at Chelsea, he made just 13 Premier League appearances, seven of which were off the bench, and scored only twice.
UAE and Lebanon talk travel, and fires ravage Israel

2 weeks ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

The UAE and Lebanon are working on lifting travel restrictions, which include a UAE-imposed ban on Emiratis travelling to Lebanon, following a meeting of their Presidents. Washington has reportedly been planning deportations to Libya. Firefighters in Israel are battling what authorities said might be the largest wildfire in the country’s history.
Israel strikes Syria and 100 days since Jenin operation

2 weeks ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

Israel is on the offensive in a move it claims it made on behalf of the Druze in Syria. The UAE says it has thwarted a plot to smuggle weapons and military equipment to the Sudanese Armed Forces, which is fighting a bloody civil war against paramilitaries. It’s been just over 100 days of an unprecedented Israeli invasion of Jenin’s refugee camp in the West Bank.
An attack against Syria's Druze and a UN report on Sudan's war

2 weeks ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

Tension flared in Damascus after the latest in a string of attacks on minority groups. The UN accused both Sudan’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing widespread atrocities against civilians. The UAE has launched a major humanitarian project serving sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years.
ICJ hears Gaza aid case and Israel launches strikes on Lebanon again

2 weeks ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar. March 1: Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates. July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.
Trump wants free pass through Suez Canal and PLO appoints deputy president

2 weeks ago | thenationalnews.com | Yasmeen Altaji

This is how many recognised sects Lebanon is home to, along with about four million citizens More than this many Palestinian refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon, with about 45 per cent of them living in the country’s 12 refugee camps There are just under 1 million Syrian refugees registered with the UN, although the government puts the figure upwards of 1.5m The percentage of stateless people in Lebanon, who are not of Palestinian origin, born to a Lebanese mother, according to a...