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Abbie Cheeseman

2 years

The Civilian Casualty Files has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. I am so honoured to have spent 9 months working on it under the indomitable @AzmatZahra , alongside @lilahass @jefftparrott @Hibamyazbek et al. Congrats to all @nytimes !

Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes (Published 2021)

The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths — and scant accountability.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

Scientists have discovered that, on occasions, an octopus will “punch” a fish for no reason other than “spite”

Octopuses are ocean thugs that punch fish

Despite its extraordinary intelligence, the life of an octopus is a solitary one. So perhaps it is no wonder that the mighty brained cephalopod engages in a little thuggery to relieve the boredom....

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

7 months

Israel has not promised to stop bombing Gaza for 4 hour periods every day as per headlines, it’s agreed with US to not bomb evacuation routes to the south. Strikes in north and south of Gaza will continue unabated. It’s seen as smoke and mirrors to those calling for a ceasefire

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6 months

The Gaza health ministry has just released a list showing the scale of infectious diseases that are spreading through the overcrowded shelters. It shows more than 95,000 people suffering from diarrhoea and more than 133,000 people with upper respiratory tract infections

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@cheesemanab

7 months

The Palestinian health ministry just sent out a *206* page report of the names and IDs of everyone killed in Gaza so far. 206 pages.

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@cheesemanab

1 year

We confirmed earlier today this baby girl, miraculously pulled out alive from under the rubble where she was born, has survived. She was found still attached to her mother’s umbilical cord. Her hometown Jandaris is estimated to be 25% reduced to rubble. Neither parent survived

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

6 months

Israel’s social security agency has revised the civilian death toll from Oct 7 Hamas attacks down to 695 Israeli civilians killed (36 children), 373 security forces & 71 foreigners

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

7 months

More specific details in Israeli media, clarifying that the 4 hour window will only apply to specific neighbourhoods and the evacuation routes every day — it does not apply to the whole of Gaza

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 year

I entered NW #Syria to start reporting for @1843mag yesterday. They are alone. No intl aid has come in. Civilians begging for tents to shelter them; the civil defence for machinery. Turkey is gridlocked with rescue efforts while areas surrounding Syrian rubble are ghost towns

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

The DJs have arrived to draw people in. It’s Monday night techno night in Martyr’s Square for those who weren’t scared away by the Hezb/Amal threat. Going into day 6 without having lost the energy #لبنان__ينتفض #LebanonProtests #Beirut

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

🧵 I spoke to Michael Lynk on Thurs before he became first UN investigator to tell Human Rights Council that Israel is committing crime of apartheid in occupied Palestine, pointing at an “inexorable” occupation that in recent years has become “indistinguishable from annexation"

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 months

I am so beyond delighted to have won the 2024 Stern-Bryan fellowship. If and when the state of disbelief wears off, all US tips welcome! I cannot wait to get stuck in at the @washingtonpost over the summer 🇺🇸

Stern-Bryan Fellowship

@sternfellowship

2 months

We are delighted to announce that @cheesemanab is the winner of the 43rd Stern-Bryan Fellowship with @washingtonpost . As all former Fellows will testify it is a life-changing experience. Many congratulations Abbie!

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

7 months

IDF did a presser in which they said Al Shifa - Gaza’s biggest hospital - would lose it’s protected status under intl law because they claim Hamas uses it for command and control cells. Within a couple of hours there’s complete comms blackout & reports of heaviest bombing yet

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

The British embassy is now temporarily withdrawing “some staff and dependents” from #Lebanon due to the severity of the fuel crisis

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

📣 exciting Boxing Day news: I’m moving to Beirut in September to start freelancing - reporting on all things to do with terrorism, Syria & the wider Middle East. All tips on how to even start preparing to move are so welcome 🙏🏻 (job offers are also very welcome)

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

7 months

The 30 premature babies in Al Shifa have been evacuated by the UN, according to an official in the Gaza MoH, and are en route to Egypt for treatment

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 year

The manager of the hospital she is in just text to say that while she was in a really bad state when she first came in, she is getting better by the hour and her relatives are there with her.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

It's so rare to see Lebanese media doing data journalism. It's so vital to properly inform this way and it's been done so clearly. The top of @lorienttoday 's website looks amazing. Huge props @rjsalame

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 year

I said goodbye to my best friend tonight & feel like someone has chopped a limb off. She was the most perfect doggo. Those four little paws held me together through some extremely shit times & gave me the best of times. Wednesday, you’ll be missed more than you could ever know 💛

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

Good Lord.

Nigel Farage

@Nigel_Farage

2 years

My brand new Farage gin is produced by an artisan distillery in the heart of Cornwall. Red, White or Blue — I hope you enjoy my patriotic take on this quintessentially British drink! Click here to buy:

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

#Syria 's notorious Sednaya prison has long been a black hole: few understand what happens inside & a minority of detainees make it out. Now, thanks to @SaydnayaPrison association, we have the fullest picture yet of its inner workings & chain of command

Executed prisoners thrown into salt chambers in Assad’s death camp

It was difficult to keep up with the industrial rate of death inside the Assad regime’s most notorious torture prison: mass graves were filling too quickly, bod

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 months

Inequality in Lebanon has never been more jarring — restaurant after restaurant is opening, charging high end prices and always full, while 80% of the country is under the poverty line. I went to an après ski party packed with old money to find out how:

Tale of two Lebanons: après-ski champagne flows, while 80% live in poverty

Inequality is stark in a country that has suffered one of the world’s worst modern economic crises. The winners are those who kept their money offshore

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

Last year I spent my birthday drunk in a pub in London. This year I’m being force fed Mosul Kubba by a Mukhtar while interviewing wives of ISIS fighters. Life’s weird isn’t it.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 year

She is being treated at a nearby hospital and will go home to extended relatives, after her parents and four siblings were killed in the #earthquake , according to a local neighbour. @TelegraphWorld

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

I'll be on @timesradio in 10 minutes talking about the explosion that just rocked #Beirut leaving hundreds injured and complete chaos across the city

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

Also sorry to all unanswered messages. I'm okay - was super lucky and just a few cuts from all the windows being blown in. My poor mum, who I was on the phone to when it happened, may face life-long heart problems though

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

It’s been one of those weeks and the dog has become well-trained in how to deal with them

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

This is late because I spent much of yesterday dying from lurgy, but having two of my pieces on the front page of the New Year’s Day @Telegraph was a lovely way to ring in the new decade 🥂

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

Western governments incl Britain have been accused of soft-pedalling Saudi's human rights abuses as they seek to combat high energy prices during war on Ukraine Labour MP @RhonddaBryant said scrubbing the truth of Saudi torture from the record was essentially doing PR for them

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

Here is part one of The Civilian Casualty Files. It is the biggest collection of FOIA docs from civilian harm allegations in the war against ISIS analysed & aggregated for the first time. Honoured to have worked with @AzmatZahra on this for the last year:

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

Working from my car this morning as it's the only way to charge my phone so that I can hotspot from it, while also hoping the car battery doesn't die because I can't drive around as there's no fuel

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

6 years

@MrJack_ONeill @kressaM @JimMFelton I'm going to suggest that you move out in that case

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

Aaaaand I’m officially Beirut based! As always get me on email/signal/WhatsApp with any tips, ideas or bar recommendations. 🥂 I’m planning on sticking with & expanding on the investigative conflict stuff, but also open to doing a bit of anything - so literally all tips welcome!

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

I think we can officially stop claiming that this is a brink of disaster. It is just an absolute disaster.

WFP Lebanon - برنامج الأغذية العالمي في لبنان

@WFPLebanon

3 years

🚨 #Lebanon is on the brink of disaster. The most basic of necessities are out of reach for millions of families.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 month

The dangers of the diesel generators that have been powering Lebanese cities in the absence of any real governance can be felt, heard, smelled and seen, but for years residents have been left in the dark as to the real health effects. My Guardian debut 👇

Guardian Environment

@guardianeco

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‘Where can you hide from pollution?’: cancer rises 30% in Beirut as diesel generators poison city

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

Beirut. 18:09 04/08/2021. “Thawra”. Revolution.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

No seriously who told you this was journalism

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Sky News is following a fourth boat attempting to carry migrants across the English Channel into the UK this morning. Read more on this story here:

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

7 months

75 years later most Palestinian refugees in Lebanon – & their descendants – remain stateless, can't own homes or legally work in anything more than menial jobs. Many still in camps, where buildings were shoddily thrown on top of each other. Nothing was supposed to last this long.

Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

7 months

This is the biggest displacement of Palestinians since 1948. In Lebanon, refugees who fled here then – thinking it would be for a week, a month – urge the new generation to cling on. Dying in Gaza is better than a stateless life unable to return, they say

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

My latest dispatch from #Beirut . A city that doesn’t know how it’ll rebuild itself: trapped in economic crisis and now lacking a port. But the civilian clean-up effort is immense. Mr Karam, 250m from the blast site, had to turn away volunteers today

Dispatch: 'How can I rebuild my home?' Life-long Beirutis become displaced in their own city

Citizens have been left to rebuild in the shadows of an economic calamity and the coronavirus pandemic

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

No backing out now- one way flight to Beirut booked for Sept 😁 If you’re looking a fresh young voice to cover Middle East, I’m open to all of the commissions. Particular love of data, interactive & new formats on top of the normal stuff Shout if you want to grab coffee in LDN!

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 year

The Palestinian Alumni Collective of Harvard's Kennedy School has called for the resignation of Dean Douglas Elmendorf after his recent decision to rescind a fellowship offer to the long-standing former head of HRW, @KenRoth , over his criticism of #Israel

Statements

April 7, 2023 | Harvard Kennedy School Palestinian Alumni Renew Demand to End Institutional Anti-Palestinian Discrimination at HKSJanuary 19, 2023 | Harvard Kennedy School Palestinian Alumni Welcom…

hkspac.wordpress.com

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 year

New: US military just delivered humanitarian aid to Rukban IDP camp breaking the Russian-backed siege imposed by Assad. Result of @syrianetf lobbying US gov, eventually allowing the group to send aid to Ain Al Asad Airbase, w/Coalition flights carrying to US' Al Tanf base #Syria

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

6 years

There are people on this train that have already given up and left Twickers 50 minutes in, I honestly think if I laugh any harder they’re going to beat me up 😂🏉 #ENGvIRE

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 months

I still pay part of my rent in lira and no matter how long the crisis drags on, it will never cease to sound absurd going to the exchange guy and asking for 27 million.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

“Welcome back to Lebanon! There’s no electricity... at all and most of the gas stations are shut or are running out of fuel. Why did you come back?” You ask an excellent question, Uber driver

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

I’m back on @timesradio tonight at 10pm with the latest on the #BeirutExplosion . After that I will be sleeping for approximately 9 years

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

I've been inundated recently with young journos wanting advice on how to navigate freelance foreign reporting - and of course always happy to help anyone. But please reach out if you're from a working-class family and it feels like it can't be anything more than a pipe dream. 1/3

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

It’s out! My last 6 months @airwars was spent living & breathing this spreadsheet. Getting this data & everything that followed was the most complicated data project I’ve ever done. It would never have been possible w/o yrs of relationship building w/Coalition long before my time

Joe

@joedyke

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In an act of unprecedented transparency in modern warfare, the US military released to @airwars the exact locations - often down to one-metre-square- of when it killed civilians while fighting ISIS.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

Back in rainy Wales and taking my foot off the pedal for a bit for the best of reasons. Welcome to the Cheeseman clan, Florence. We’ll have you at a bar causing trouble in no time.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

Peace out Beirut and goodbye to the most exhausting year ever* ✌️ *2021 Lebanon is almost definitely going to make me regret saying that

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 year

If the #earthquake didn’t wake my neighbours up, me screaming GET AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS at my partner as he tried to bundle me and the dog into the back of the wardrobe probably did. That August 4th trauma is never packed very far away from the surface

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1 year

This is strongest #earthquake I felt since #egypt ’s 1992 destructive one. In #beirut , waking up in middle of night to shaking building brought back terrifying memories of #aug4 #beirutblast in 2020. Where to hide?

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

The new flat really does have a stonkingly good view

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

6 years

People underestimate the power of blowback far too much. Awesome explainer on its role in the rise of ISIS: by @mehdirhasan

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

I have never seen a flight to Beirut as empty as the one I got on today

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

1 month

“Israeli source: At the moment, Hamas' answer is not being taken seriously. This is an answer to a unilateral Egyptian proposal. First we will receive Hamas' answer and study it.”

Suleiman Maswadeh סולימאן מסוודה

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גורם ישראלי: כרגע לא לוקחים ברצינות את תשובת חמאס. מדובר בתשובה להצעה מצרית חד-צדדית. קודם נקבל את התשובה של חמאס ונלמד אותה. פרטים נוספים מיד בכאן 11

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

I'm taking a much needed 2-week break from work & Twitter (post-explosion, mid Lebanon falling apart, mid pandemic) to drink a lot of wine, stare at a wall and maybe disappear to Greece. I'll be in the market for exciting new projects, commissions upon my return. Get in me DMs

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

. @TBIJ we're fighting to #ReleaseTheRussiaReport . In 72 hours you helped raise nearly 36k. Lawyers say we'll be in a very strong position at 40k. We're almost ready to take Boris to judicial review next week - you can help.

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@cheesemanab

5 years

I'll be honest working two jobs alongside a full-time MA was a bit ridiculous - so finally finding out that I passed and actually did quite well is more than a bit of a relief 😅

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

It's been a year this week since I started @airwars . Fresh faced 21 year old me had no idea that my *best pub chat was about to become very long rants about military transparency, but boy have I learned a lot in a year. *I'm rapidly losing friends

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

22/ “These reports do not show hatred towards Jews, they are critical of a state policy that has coalesced over a number of years and decades to impose repressive conditions on the indigenous people in Palestine," Lynk said.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

The aggression with which protestors are being met with in #Beirut from the security forces is almost unparalleled to anything we’ve seen before

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

7 months

I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of strength that it takes to try and cheer up kids like this while surrounded by the utter horror unfolding in every corner of Gaza

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@PalestineRCS

7 months

❣️The Psycho-social team of the PRCS carried out recreational activities for displaced children at the PRCS headquarter in the Al-Amal city , aiming to alleviate their fears and anxieties and bring smiles to their faces.

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2 years

2/ In an exclusive interview with @Telegraph before presenting his report in Geneva, the UN Special Rapporteur said that viewing the situation in occupied Palestine through the lens of “occupation” has become fundamentally inadequate when the reality on the ground is much darker

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

A lady on the tube just put her puppy on my lap because she thought I looked deathly hungover (she was entirely correct). Now I’m somehow on the most convoluted route home because I just didn’t get off as he was literally holding my life together. Yes he was wet, no I don’t care.

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@cheesemanab

3 years

A heartbreakingly powerful photo that in itself underlines why the Pope’s visit is so important

Rasha Al Aqeedi

@RashaAlAqeedi

3 years

Perhaps this is why the Pope's stop to Mosul is being dropped out of the narrative. Let's contrast the "beautiful" locations the Pope has visited so far with this image:

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1 year

Saudi carried out what is thought to be its first-ever execution during Ramadan, raising fears that others could be killed in the holy month. Authorities have escalated cases of death row defendants who committed "crimes" as children through the courts

Ramadan execution raises fears for young Saudi Arabia convicts

Saudi Arabia has carried out what is believed to be its first recorded execution during Ramadan, raising fears among campaigners that others could be executed

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@cheesemanab

2 years

Very few can write about the fear and humanity of conflict as lyrically as @nabihbulos . A must read from #Irpin 👇

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@cheesemanab

4 years

After an incredible 18 months, I'm hanging up my boots @airwars . I've learned a ridiculous amount & can't think @chrisjwoods enough for my first steps into Mid East/CT & trusting me to do some of the work I've done. I'm of course still reporting on civcas so keep sending tips!

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

I’m heading back to #Lebanon from Paris on Monday and have a small amount of room in my luggage. If anyone needs any medication brought over please DM me and I’ll see what I can do

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@cheesemanab

4 years

My debut From Our Own Correspondent is leading @bbcworldservice edition tonight. Listen from 22:05 UK time to hear latest on #LebanonProtests which have renewed mid-pandemic –– told through sister of Fawwaz al-Samman, “the Martyr of the Hunger Revolution”

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Lebanon’s hunger revolution

In Lebanon, extreme poverty has reignited protests despite the lockdown

www.bbc.co.uk

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@cheesemanab

4 years

40 unattributed civilian deaths. 3 European allies implicated. 0 justice for families. A 9-month investigation w/ @chrisjwoods in which we found European @CJTFOIR allies routinely denying civilian harm –– even when Coalition civcas specialists admit them

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@cheesemanab

5 years

“Why on earth do you want to be a Middle East reporter?” 👇🏻

Iraqi Expat

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5 years

No one: Iraqis:

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@cheesemanab

4 years

Now feels like a good time to bring up how bonkers it is that the British embassy in #Lebanon doesn't register their citizens out here. I was told by an embassy worker when I arrived that they "stopped keeping a list years ago". They have no idea if we're all accounted for

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4 years

I was in Iraqi Kurdistan this week reporting on the situation in the camps for @Telegraph . My dispatch is in today's paper. But there's obviously a lot going on that I couldn't squeeze into word count, so a thread:

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@cheesemanab

4 years

I don’t mean to be smug (I am) but somehow the snow on the mountains has made the view from my flat even better #Beirut

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

🚨 I'm wrapping up a few gigs & have availability for new work & for first time in a while I'm open to a full-time gig Mid East, investigations, international affairs, reporting/editing shifts. Open to anything remote as I can't leave Lebanon for a little while RTs appreciated!

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

6 years

I'm currently building a toolkit for @journoresources , it should give you the best initial steps to take & show you the tools to use to learn a new journalism skill. Our first will be in data investigations - from scraping to vis. What other skills would you like to see here?

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3 years

Internet in Lebanon has always been bad, but my 4g has gotten to the point that during power cuts I literally can’t hold a whatsapp call most of the time without it cutting out every 10 seconds

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1 year

It’s like they started making the promotion sign and then checked the lira rate half way through

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@cheesemanab

5 years

US & allies "nowhere close to bringing down the terrorist organization’s economic empire. The group remains a financial powerhouse" Great read from @DavidKenner on how ISIS still have access to so much $$$ despite being territorially defeated.

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@cheesemanab

4 years

It’s a rare treat to be able to report a joyful story in Lebanon these days. Here’s Lucie’s story of how her love for singing got her and 129 other Sierra Leonean domestic workers out of the hell that is Lebanon’s kafala system, for @TheNationalUAE 👇

Song of sorrow brings smiles back to abandoned maids in Lebanon

Lucie's lament helped to create a path home for herself and other women from Sierra Leone

www.thenationalnews.com

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

That working on the fish counter in Waitrose is better paid than being a Middle East correspondent

The Guardian

@guardian

3 years

Tell us: what lesson did you learn from your summer job?

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1 year

Look who I met at a hospital in Afrin earlier today! Aya is getting stronger and stronger, in part because Khaled’s wide is breastfeeding her. A ray of hope amid all of the destruction and loss we’ve seen in northwest #Syria today

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@cheesemanab

3 years

As the lira today became a tenth of what it was worth in 2019 and is devaluing every few hours, not a single shop in my village is open because they have literally no idea what to charge people or what anything is worth anymore #Lebanon

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@cheesemanab

8 months

#Hamas official Basem Naim, head of international relations, has denied to me reports that they are in talks to release women and children hostages. He claims there are no talks with Qatar as per Reuters

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

I’ll be honest, I mostly just want to stay at home and hug this little thing (who thank god was not in Beirut when it happened)

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

Honestly you fall asleep at your laptop before sending an application one time & you get publicly called out in front of @Jem_Collins ’ thousands of subscribers constantly 😅 (sign up to @journoresources ’ newsletter because they’re the only ones who know where the jobs are rn)

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

3 years

Last week I spoke to an 18-yr-old Syrian refugee in Denmark who's been told his residency won't be renewed now it's 'safe' to return to Damascus. His case suggests Denmark is failing to follow its own guidance on exercising caution over who they send back

'Denmark is waging psychological war': Trauma for Syrian refugees facing controversial deportation

Denmark's war on immigration has left Syrian refugees fearing for their futures

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

12/ “In the Palestinian territory that Israel has occupied since 1967, there are now 5 million stateless Palestinians living w/o rights, in an acute state of subjugation...

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

5/ “2 main reasons drove me to that: the relentlessly ongoing settlement construction (adding 10, 15, 20,000 new settlers every year in East Jerusalem & the West Bank) & the repeated statements growing louder & more regular by Israeli leaders, basically saying ‘this is all ours’”

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

17/ “It's extraordinary the amount of financial resources Israel's placed into them to ensure they're irreversible facts on the ground. They're building highways that are either for Palestinians or for Israeli Jews…Even South Africa didn’t have apartheid highways,” he claimed

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

5 years

Ahem, I'm sorry what @businessinsider ?!

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

7/ Lynk’s report joins growing movement of intl, Palestinian & Israeli rights groups labelling Israel’s policies towards Palestinians - at least in occupied territories - as apartheid & attempt to redefine the conflict as struggle for equal rights rather than territorial dispute

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

6 years

@MrJack_ONeill @JimMFelton Its hands and feet are a bit weird, I'll give you that - but he has a cute face and that's all that matters really isn't it

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

I've lost count of the number of times that I've relied on @N_Waters89 and the @bellingcat cohort, no matter what job I've been in or which conflict I've been doing investigative work on. #OSINT always wins.

Nick Waters

@N_Waters89

4 years

We @bellingcat have analysed a video that shows a missile hitting an object above Parand in Tehran. We believe this object was likely flight #PS572 . Read it here👇

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

Merry Christmas lads. From me and my favourite living being. 🎅🏼

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

4 years

I’ve been in Lebanon a year today. I may need to take the next 10 off.

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

15/ “The report details how Israel has established a system of racially motivated oppression against Palestinians, explicitly designed to maintain Jewish Israeli domination, and maintained through the commission of grave human rights violations,” said Amnesty’s Saleh Higazi

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Abbie Cheeseman

@cheesemanab

2 years

9/ “Quantitative change at some point becomes qualitative change; boiling water becomes steam. I think we've reached point politically where quantitative change - a thickening & deepening occupation- transforms itself at some temperature point into an apartheid situation” he said

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