I’m a journalist and blogger. You’ll find me between between London and Beirut/Cairo. Widely published reporter with more than four years experience in politics, security and international development.

I graduated from City University with an MA in Newspaper Journalism in 2009 before moving to Beirut. Six days after landing in Lebanon, I was covering its parliamentary elections and spent three years reporting on some of the region’s biggest developments, including the uprising in Syria and the United Nations-backed tribunal for Lebanon.

In Cairo, I covered the anniversary of the 18-day uprising that toppled Mubarak, including the Port Said football disaster and the violence that followed across the country.

I have, among other subjects, led and written investigations into: A planned Egyptian military coup; the illegal incarceration of Egyptian conscientious objectors; the causes of the ET409 plane crash; the international informal work sector; Salafist jihadists in Syria; the plight of refugees in Lebanon and Syria; food price fixing in Egypt; London’s relations with Hezbollah.

This is my personal blog. Please feel free to comment, commend or disagree with anything you see on this blog. All comments are welcome. Anything written here is my personal view and is not affiliated with any external publication.

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