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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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Rescue workers and locals at the scene of an airstrike in the town of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, 27 June 2025. The Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center on Friday announced that an Israeli airstrike targeting an apartment in Nabatieh resulted in the death of one woman and injured eleven others, according to preliminary figures. EPA / STR
TrendingIsrael strikes Lebanon and Trump says Gaza ceasefire close

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Trending Middle EastJune 30, 2025
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The Iranian magazine Tejarat Farda, with the headline 'The benefit of peace' and an image of Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian and Donald Trump. EPA
TrendingIran's conditions for US talks, and nuclear damage

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Trending Middle EastJune 27, 2025
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ELYAKHIN, ISRAEL - JUNE 25: Israeli soldiers mourn during a funeral for IDF Staff Sgt. Niv Radia on June 25, 2025 in Elyakhin, Israel. Radia was one of seven Israeli soldiers in the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion who were killed yesterday in Gaza. (Photo by Amir Levy / Getty Images)
TrendingUS and Iran to hold talks and Israeli troops killed in Gaza

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Trending Middle EastJune 26, 2025
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BEERSHEBA, ISRAEL - JUNE 24: Shop fronts are damaged near a building where four people were killed by an Iranian missile strike on June 24, 2025 in Beersheba, Israel. According to Israeli authorities, Iran launched a barrage of missiles in the early hours this morning, before the start of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the two countries. The Iranian foreign minister said that, if Israel stopped its attacks as of this morning, Iran would also end its strikes. (Photo by Erik Marmor / Getty Images)
TrendingFragile Israel-Iran ceasefire and aid site violence in Gaza

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Trending Middle EastJune 25, 2025
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JUNE 23: Civilians retrieve personal belongings from the rubble of their house after a ballistic missile fired from Iran struck the city yesterday morning on June 23, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Iran and Israel have continued to exchange aerial attacks in the days after the United States bombed several Iranian nuclear sites. (Photo by Amir Levy / Getty Images)
TrendingIran attacks US airbase in Qatar, and church bombing in Syria

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Trending Middle EastJune 24, 2025
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A satellite image shows Iran's Fordow nuclear site after it was hit by US strikes. Reuters
TrendingIAEA holds emergency meeting and Gulf countries monitor radiation

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Trending Middle EastJune 23, 2025
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a meeting with ambassadors in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. Iranian Foreign Ministry/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
TrendingIran's Araghchi heads to Geneva, and Israel's secretive nuclear programme

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Trending Middle EastJune 20, 2025
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(FILES) This handout picture released by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him speaking to members of Iran's air force in Tehran on February 7, 2025. Khamenei vowed on June 18, 2025 that his country would show no mercy towards Israel's rulers, hours after US President Donald Trump demanded Tehran's "unconditional surrender". (Photo by KHAMENEI. IR / AFP) / === RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / KHAMENEI. IR" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ===
TrendingIran 'won't surrender', and ruins of Hezbollah strongholds

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Trending Middle EastJune 19, 2025
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Shiite Muslims take part in a protest against Israeli air strikes on Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan. EPA
TrendingMiddle East calls for de-escalation and G7 summit wraps

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Trending Middle EastJune 18, 2025
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A residential building in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva bears the scars of an Iranian missile attack. AP
TrendingDeath tolls rise in Israel and Iran, and Palestinian black market risk grows

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Trending Middle EastJune 17, 2025
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An Israeli soldier inspects rubble at asite of an overnight Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam on June 15, 2025. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran would pay "a very heavy price" for killing Israeli civilians, during a June 15 visit to the site of a missile strike on a residential building near Tel Aviv, as the two foes kept up intense fighting. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
TrendingIsrael and Iran escalate conflict and oil prices rise

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Trending Middle EastJune 16, 2025
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International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi at the opening day of the agency's quarterly Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Reuters
TrendingThreats and tension after Iran found in breach of nuclear obligations

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Trending Middle EastJune 13, 2025
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Israeli Minister of Finance and leader of the Religious Zionist Party, Bezalel Smotrich, arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, 05 March 2023. EPA / GIL COHEN-MAGEN / POOL
TrendingIsrael cancels Palestinian bank waiver and Syria issues swimwear rules

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Trending Middle EastJune 12, 2025
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Pro-Palestine protesters outside the Houses of Parliament in London urge the UK government to sanction Israel over the Gaza conflict. On June 10, the UK did just that, with targets including two Israeli Cabinet ministers who live in illegal settlements. Bloomberg
TrendingUK puts sanctions on Israeli cabinet members, and Muslim in race for New York

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Trending Middle EastJune 11, 2025
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks during a press conference at the IAEA headquarters of the United Nations in Vienna. EPA
TrendingIran's 'undeclared' nuclear sites and Israel-backed groups in Gaza

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Trending Middle EastJune 10, 2025
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