Yasmeen Serhan
Digital Features Editor at Reuters
Digital Features Editor at @Reuters. Previously on the foreign affairs beat at @TIME and @TheAtlantic. Also at @yasmeenserhan.bsky.social.
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1 month ago |
foreigncorrespondence.substack.com | Yasmeen Serhan
Hello, and happy Friday!Longtime readers of this correspondence might recall this essay I wrote nearly three years ago for The Atlantic, in which I urged the U.S. government to launch its own investigation into the killing of Palestinian American journalist and longtime Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh. She was fatally shot on May 11 while reporting on an Israeli military raid in the city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. No such investigation materialized.
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1 month ago |
foreigncorrespondence.substack.com | Yasmeen Serhan
Hello, and happy Friday! I spent part of last weekend spectating the London Marathon — a first in my many years of calling this city home. I wish I’d done it a lot sooner. Most people will tell you that the atmosphere of the marathon is electric, and I can confirm that this is absolutely true. Although London is a runner’s city at the best of times, there’s something about marathon day that totally grips the place. It feels like an unofficial holiday — one that anyone can show up to and observe.
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2 months ago |
foreigncorrespondence.substack.com | Yasmeen Serhan
Hello, and happy Friday! Most readers of this correspondence have probably never heard of Canary Mission, a relatively obscure organization whose aim is to expose—or, more accurately, doxx—students and groups on American college campuses it sees as promoting “hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews.” Its list of offenders is long, including Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, Arab American Institute founder James Zogby, and IfNotNow co-founder Simone Zimmerman.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
foreigncorrespondence.substack.com | Yasmeen Serhan
Hello, and happy Friday!I’d be remiss if I didn’t start this correspondence by acknowledging the scoop of the century (okay, perhaps just the year) from my former colleagues at The Atlantic. For those who somehow missed it: On Monday, the magazine published a bonkers story detailing how Trump aides inadvertently invited the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat where highly sensitive information about a military strike was being shared, emojis and all.
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Mar 21, 2025 |
foreigncorrespondence.substack.com | Yasmeen Serhan
Hello, and happy Friday. Amid everything going on in the world right now, you’d be forgiven for having missed this particular news item: Last week, the Trump administration announced funding cuts to federal agencies including the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees government-funded broadcasters such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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