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Faisal Al Yafai
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“What does it mean to have a home in a city, a country, in a body?" Hala Alyan joins me for an expansive conversation about I'll Tell You When I'm Home, ranging from motherhood to exile to Palestine. Full ep: newlinesmag.com/podcast/hala...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Last year we won at the Signal Awards for our Gaza coverage. This year, we've been nominated for best Talk Show, for our episode “The War We Don't See" with @arwadamon.bsky.social Want to vote for us for the Listener’s Choice Award? vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting... @newlinesmag.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A glimpse of our @newlinesmag.bsky.social event last night at the Frontline Club in London. A packed crowd listened to @yarotrof.bsky.social @christinalamb.bsky.social talk conflict, war, Ukraine and Russia and answer audience questions for 50mins! 👏 DM me to join mailing list for the next one.
September 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A new season comes to London! We'll be at the Frontline Club with @yarotrof.bsky.social @christinalamb.bsky.social talking Ukraine, Russia and Trofimov's novel No Country for Love. Join us: eventbrite.com/e/private-li... @newlinesmag.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
For #AugustReplays I'm bringing back this fascinating conversation with Prof Gerges - we talk Gaza, Syria, the tangled history of authoritarianism. And of course Nasser and Mosaddegh. Listen @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-... @fawazgerges.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We start #AugustReplays with one of the biggest political stories of 2025, the apparent cover up of Joe Biden's declining health.

Alex Thompson, co-author of “Original Sin” joins me on The Lede.

Full episode @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-...
August 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
August 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Voting for The Webby Awards ends this week, and @newlinesmag.bsky.social The Lede is currently in the lead. (But CNN are right behind us, coughs.) Take a moment to do the honours, if you can: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
April 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Having these raw conversations is genuinely a privilege. Listen here as I ask @arwadamon.bsky.social if there's a part of her that feels guilty if she feels fine in the face of what she witnessed in Gaza. Full episode @newlinesmag.bsky.social smag: newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-...
April 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
An important and timely conversation with Arwa Damon on today's @newlinesmag.bsky.social The Lede. It's the third conversation I've had with Damon over Gaza, and perhaps the most personal. Listen here and watch out for the video version, coming soon newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-...
April 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New interview loading @newlinesmag.bsky.social.... I'm really excited to share this week's conversation. Stay tuned later this week for the guest.
April 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Join us this Weds at the Frontline Club to discuss a real life murder mystery - the disappearance of @thetimes.com' David Holden in Cairo in 1977. I'll be in conversation with Manu Midolo, Peter Gillman, @scribblercat.bsky.social and Mark Lowen. Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
April 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We're back at the Frontline Club this Friday, for a fascinating discussion on how AI, algorithms and disinformation are reshaping truth, power and politics. With the brilliant @oliviasolon.bsky.social @vickiturk.bsky.social | @newlinesmag.bsky.social Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/feeds-fake...
April 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Once in a while, you get to see something like this happen. Syria can breathe." Back from Damascus @janinedigi.bsky.social joined @kshaheen.bsky.social and I on @newlinesmag.bsky.social The Lede to talk about justice, from Ukraine to the Middle East. Listen in: newlinesmag.com/podcast/afte...
March 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Tonight in London! Come see us at The Frontline Club, in conversation with Stephanie Baker and Michela Wrong, as we start off @newlinesmag.bsky.social series of events. We'll be talking Russia, Ukraine, Congo, Rwanda, Syria and much more. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-...
February 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I love how many flag references there are in this Joanna Andreasson illo. I count six (and maybe, if you squint, the shortlived 1960s flag with three stars, one representing Iraq) | Full story by Rasha Elass on Syria's constitution @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/essays/a-cen...
January 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thank you to the hundreds of guests and journalists from dozens of publications who joined our @newlinesmag.bsky.social events at The Frontline Club in London this year. New events coming in 2025! #2024wrapped
December 23, 2024 at 3:31 PM
A packed house at the Frontline Club in London for our last @newlinesmag.bsky.social event of the year. Stephen Sackur was in excellent form, gamely answering the questions instead of asking them. More events next year 👏
December 18, 2024 at 9:58 PM
If you're following the #Syria story, here are two @newlinesmag.bsky.social essential reads, by @hhassan.bsky.social and Rasha Elass. Links: newlinesmag.com/reportage/th... newlinesmag.com/argument/ass...
December 4, 2024 at 6:57 PM
A funny moment at last month's @newlinesmag.bsky.social salon in London. This Friday we're back at the Frontline Club for the last - the last - event of the year, with HardTalk's grand inquisitor Stephen Sackur, reviewing a tumultuous year of news. Join us: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-year-of-...
December 3, 2024 at 6:55 PM
2024 has been a year of profound and seismic events. To unpack them, next week we're welcoming the grand inquisitor himself Stephen Sackur to the Frontline Club to review the news and personalities of the year | @newlinesmag.bsky.social | Sign up here and join us: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-year-of-...
November 28, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social is here conspicuously silent on whether he was there in a different capacity in the *late* 2010s...

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November 22, 2024 at 7:25 PM
🧵I spoke to @harikunzru.bsky.social on @newlinesmag.bsky.social The Lede, a brilliant novelist I've wanted to sit down with for a while. My first question was about something he said about Trump voters wanting to "smash the hegemony of the coastal elite". Aren't you, I asked, part of that elite?
November 21, 2024 at 10:09 PM
For my first post on Bluesky, here's a photo from last week of Emma Graham-Harrison speaking at our @newlinesmag.bsky.social event at the Frontline Club in London, alongside Gabriel Gatehouse, Sasha Polakow-Suransky and @lsmwilson.bsky.social.
November 21, 2024 at 9:22 PM