Journalist with Reuters in Riyadh. Past lives in Turkey, Egypt, and Iraq.
Joined June 2012
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25 Oct 2019
I profiled one team of paramedics led by Khaldun Abbas, pictured center and a total bad-ass, about a week ago for the New Humanitarian. He and his team were out in the protests again today, saving as many people as possible. thenewhumanitarian.org/news-…
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30 Jun 2023
In a dispatch from Western Sahara, @apradabianchi and @PMagid chart the legacy of Spanish occupation to today’s fight for independence from Morocco.
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30 Jun 2023
In a dispatch from Western Sahara, @apradabianchi and @PMagid chart the legacy of Spanish colonization to today’s fight for independence from Morocco.
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26 Jun 2023
“People either have their land or the grave,” said Commander Abwa Ali of the Polisario Front.
My and @apradabianchi article in @ForeignPolicy on how the Polisario’s often undercovered conflict with Morocco raises tensions across the Maghreb. tinyurl.com/bddxbtw5
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25 Apr 2023
A story I have been working on for a while is FINALLY out.
It’s about how Germany’s colonial legacy still lives within people in Namibia today - and a few other things.
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25 Apr 2023
It’s about how remembrance culture - or lack thereof - shapes how citizens of the same country see each other.
And it’s about how completely different realities can exist side by side but somehow never meet. There is something really tragic but also fascinating about that.
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23 Mar 2023
Murat Bayram reports on the earthquake—and the government’s failings—in Turkey cjr.org/the_profile/turkey-e…
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26 Jan 2023
#Iraq: #CFWIJ condemns overnight imprisonment of #SomaKhalid. We believe this is an intimidation following her reporting illuminating inadequacies of management at Sulaimani’s Shar Hospital. #CFWIJ holds authorities accountable for use of censorious methods against #freepress.
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11 Nov 2022
Iraqi journalists watch Telegram, and Telegram is watching them back, by @PMagid cjr.org/the_feature/iraqi-jo…
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10 Nov 2022
How Egypt wanted #COP27 to go vs how it’s going
It’s all because of @sana2 and her relentless fight for her brother #AlaaAbdelFattah’s freedom
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29 Oct 2022
How a rare effort to compensate Iraqi airstrike victims failed interc.pt/3DFPwjn by @pmagid
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29 Oct 2022
After a U.S.-planned airstrike killed at least 80 Iraqi civilians in 2015, the Dutch government offered 4.4 million Euros in reconstruction aid (their F-16 dropped the bomb) . Nothing went to the airstrike victims, as @pmagid reports. theintercept.com/2022/10/29/…
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1 Nov 2022
In 2015, a bombing by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq killed at least 85 civilians in the northern town of Hawija. Money promised to the town by the Dutch government has yet to reach survivors and their families, reports Fellow @PMagid for @theintercept. bit.ly/3WnmUD4
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28 Sep 2022
CJR fellow Pesha Magid (@PMagid) talks with Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, one of Egypt's last independent news sites, who has been charged under the country's "fake news" law for reporting on turmoil within Egypt's governing party cjr.org/q_and_a/lina-attalah…
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20 Sep 2022
Five stops along the Tigris river's 1,500-kilometre course through Iraq to document the ecological disaster forcing people to change their lifestyle.
In Mesopotamia, cradle of civilisation, human activity climate change threaten the Tigris today
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ALT The Tigris is one of Iraq's two big rivers that gave birth to the ancient empires of Sumer and Babylonia and are said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden. Today, it is dying.Human activity and climate change have choked the once mighty stream that, with its twin the Euphrates, brought to life the civilisations of Mesopotamia thousands of years ago.
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15 Sep 2022
With 100s of complaints filed by Nation's Future Party members in an attempt to impugn Mada's journalistic standards, we introduce you to the 4 journalists facing legal action—Lina Attalah, Rana Mamdouh, Beesan Kassab & Sara Seif Eddin— and share how they built their practice.
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Pesha Magid retweeted
6 Sep 2022
The Cairo Appeals Prosecution summoned Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah and journalists Rana Mamdouh, Sara Seif Eddin and Beesan Kassab for interrogation tomorrow at the Public Prosecution office in Rehab.
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27 Aug 2022
My long read on sex #trafficking in #Iraq is out as part of our @AJpeoplepower investigation.
Through exclusive access to authorities, traffickers and survivors, it sheds light on the power structures that fuel the exploitation of girls. 1/
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Pesha Magid retweeted
24 Aug 2022
We welcome Pesha Magid (@PMagid) from @columbiajourn to our Post-Grad Reporting Fellow team! She has covered the Middle East since 2012, and will report on civilians killed in the fight against ISIS for her Pulitzer-supported project. Welcome, Pesha!
ALT 2022 Post-Grad Reporting Fellow Pesha Magid Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Empty Promises
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9 Jun 2022
I wrote for @newlinesmag about ongoing the ‘war’ on journalism in India.
Reflected on my experience covering #DelhiRiots and the pandemic. Originally written as a @columbiajourn assignment
Do give it a read. #PressFreedom #Journalism newlinesmag.com/reportage/in…
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