Projects
- Just a number, just a name: A refugee’s journey through detention in AlexandriaThis is a sample of my journalism, which is available on my project page on crowd-funded journalism platform, Beacon. This was part of a year-long reporting series on migration from Egypt's north coast towards Europe - a journey mostly taken by Syrian refugees at the time. I interviewed a group of Syrian and Palestinian-Syrian refugees extensively by telephone while they were detained in a police station in Alexandria. The photographs exhibited in the piece were sent by the refugees, and were taken on their camera phones during the course of their (failed) journey at sea and subsequent detention back on land. The aim of this project was to give readers a first-hand perspective of what crossing the Mediterranean actually involves - both through first-person narrative and viewpoint (with the help of the photographs) - and with it, humanise those making the journey.
Work history
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Freelance Journalist, Researcher and CopyeditorFreelance
Since 2011, having studied an English BA at Cambridge University and then a postgraduate diploma at Sheffield University, I have worked as a freelance journalist for a range of leading publications in the UK and Middle East. My first commissions were with London-based outlets, including Dazed & Confused, The Independent newspaper, New Statesman and Vice. Since moving to Egypt in summer 2013, I have gained significant experience in field reporting but also freelancing; producing news and features for Al-Jazeera America and English (Qatar), Al-Monitor (Beirut), Equal Times (Brussels), Mada Masr (Egypt), Middle East Eye (London), Vice News (US) and others. At the moment, I report on migration and refugees but also work on a range of freelance projects as well, including copy-editing and sub-editing, report-writing for NGOS/civil society organisations and research.
Copy-editor
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I worked as an in-house and on-call copy-editor for Egypt's leading independent news outlet, Mada Masr, during a turbulent time in Egyptian politics. The role involved standard copy-editing tasks (editing copy to a high standard, publishing material on Drupal CMS, picture research and social media), and from early 2015 I also edited Mada's daily newsletter - 'The Mada Masr Morning Digest' - between 6-8am, which went out to a range of diplomatic, journalistic and other professional subscribers.
Skills
- Copywriting
- Editing
- Journalism
- Blogs
- Online
- Blogging
- Human Interest
- News
- Proofreading
- Web Content
- Media
- Popular Culture
- Social
- Powerpoint
Education
Magazine Journalism
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Postgraduate diploma
English BA
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English tripos Part I and II