Youssr Youssef

4 weeks ago | arij.net | Hoda Osman |Youssr Youssef

By Hoda Osman and Youssr Youssef This investigation, conducted by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, is part of the Gaza Project, a collaboration involving over 40 journalists from 12 organizations coordinated by Forbidden Stories. Four years ago, Mahmoud Isleem al-Basos began messaging Shadi al-Tabatiby on social media, again and again, asking to join him on shoots.

4 weeks ago | theintercept.com | Hoda Osman |Youssr Youssef

This investigation, conducted by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, is part of the Gaza Project, a collaboration involving over 40 journalists from 12 organizations coordinated by Forbidden Stories. Four years ago, Mahmoud Isleem al-Basos began messaging Shadi al-Tabatiby on social media, again and again, asking to join him on shoots. Al-Tabatiby, one of Gaza’s best-known drone journalists, didn’t pay much attention at first. “But Mahmoud was persistent,” al-Tabatiby said.

Nov 8, 2024 | forbiddenstories.org | Eloïse Layan |Youssr Youssef

A villa on the French Riviera, shady business arrangements in Luxembourg, a disgraced public notary, and the shadow of Khagani Bashirov, a Franco-Azerbaijani businessman suspected of embezzling millions of euros: this is what we found when we completed the investigation of an imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist.

Jun 24, 2024 | forbiddenstories.org | Phineas Rueckert |Youssr Youssef

Since October 7, journalists in the West Bank have reported an increase in harassment and violence by the Israeli military and settlers. Settlements have continued to expand. Forbidden Stories and its partners pursued the work of journalists attacked while covering West Bank settlement expansion and the forced displacement of Bedouin communities.

Jun 24, 2024 | forbiddenstories.org | Sofia Alvarez |Youssr Youssef

On May 4, 2024, two journalists from Al Araby TV who were covering an Israeli raid in the West Bank were fired upon. Forbidden Stories and its partners reconstructed the trajectory of the first shot that hit the camera, determining that it came from Israeli forces vehicles parked only about sixty meters away.