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Yasmeen Altaji

Yasmeen Altaji

Assistant Podcast Producer
Abu Dhabi
Yasmeen Altaji is an Assistant Podcast Producer at The National’s Abu Dhabi headquarters. Her multimedia reportage — from live coverage of the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University to US special elections — focuses on international politics, art and culture, and has appeared in international print, TV and radio outlets including the BBC, the CBC, PRI's The World and Al Jazeera English. She holds an MA in Political Journalism from Columbia University and a BS in Journalism and BMus. in Voice and Opera from Northwestern University.

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Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa receives His Beatitude Patriarch John X Yazigi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Greek Orthodox, at the People's Palace in Damascus. Photo: Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic
TrendingLast push to pause Gaza war, and Al Shara meets Syrian Christian leader

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 18, 2025
US President Donald Trump is to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. AP
TrendingTrump and Putin to hold talks in Alaska, and attacks on aid in Syria

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 15, 2025
The Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, right, with Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani. EPA
TrendingIran's tense meeting with Beirut, and Syria blames Israel for instability

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 14, 2025
Palestinians rush to collect aid from lorries in Khan Younis, southern Gaz. Reuters
TrendingCeasefire talks in Cairo, and US makes offer to Syria

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 13, 2025
Al Jazeera staff members gather at the network’s studios to remember their slain colleagues. Reuters
TrendingCondemnation of Israel's killing of Gaza journalists, and Syrian 'field execution'

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 12, 2025
Tension has grown between Iraq's central government and the paramilitary Popular Mobilisation Forces . AFP
TrendingIraq dismisses PMF commanders, and on board a Jordanian aid drop to Gaza

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 11, 2025
YAD MORDECHAY, ISRAEL - AUGUST 6: Israeli activists take part in a protest against the war in the Gaza Strip, on August 6, 2025 in Yad Mordechay, Israel. According to Israeli media reports, senior officials have confirmed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to seek backing from his security cabinet for the "full occupation" of the Gaza Strip, despite dissent within his staff and condemnation by the international community. UN Assistant Secretary General Miroslav Jenca has warned that the plan could endanger the lives of more Palestinians and Israeli hostages held by Hamas. (Photo by Amir Levy / Getty Images)
TrendingIsrael weighs reoccupying Gaza, and Lebanon votes to disarm Hezbollah

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 08, 2025
Israeli forces at the ceasefire line near the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams on July 23. EPA
TrendingLebanon fears Israeli incursion, and behind Syria's operation in Sweida

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 07, 2025
Members of a private US security company, contracted by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group which the UN refuses to work with over neutrality concerns, direct displaced Palestinians as they gather to receive relief supplies at a distribution centre in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025, as smoke bombs are fired by Israeli troops. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
TrendingNew details on Gaza aid site deaths

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 06, 2025
Palestinians collect free food from a charity kitchen in Gaza city on August 4, 2025. Bloomberg
TrendingGaza starvation and Saudi student killed in UK

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 05, 2025
The Al Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem. Getty Images
TrendingCondemnation of Ben-Gvir at Al Aqsa Mosque and five years since the Beirut Blast

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 04, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, front, enter a hall during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (Shamil Zhumatov / Pool Photo via AP)
TrendingUS sanctions PA, and new Syria-Russia relations

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastAugust 01, 2025
Israeli right-wing activists attend a rally calling for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo / Ohad Zwigenberg)
TrendingIsraeli settlement plan, and Lebanon inches towards disarming Hezbollah

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastJuly 31, 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer smiles during a meeting with Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz inside 10 Downing Street in London on July 17, 2025. (Photo by Leon Neal / POOL / AFP)
TrendingUK could recognise Palestinian state and Gaza's mothers dying in childbirth

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastJuly 30, 2025
Sweida, Syria. Hasan Belal for The National
TrendingSiege on Sweida, and anger after clashes in Iraq

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

Trending Middle EastJuly 29, 2025
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