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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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TOPSHOT - People search for human remains at a trench believed to be used as a mass grave on the outskirts of Damascus on December 16, 2024. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, ousting president Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 100,000 people died in Syria's jails and detention centres from 2011. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
TrendingMass grave discovered in Damascus and US strikes ISIS targets

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Trending Middle EastDecember 17, 2024
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Israeli soldiers cross the security fence moving towards the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo / Matias Delacroix)
TrendingIsraeli air strikes hit Syria and UAE condemns settlement expansions

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Trending Middle EastDecember 16, 2024
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This picture shows the ?Jaber border crossing on the Jordanian side on December 8, 2024, following the fall of the Syrian capital Damascus. Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
Syria crisis summit and UAE meetings - Trending

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PodcastsDecember 13, 2024
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Migrants and refugees line up at the central registration centre for refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin, Germany, in 2016. AP
TrendingSyrian asylum applications and Saudi World Cup

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Trending Middle EastDecember 12, 2024
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Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) inspect damaged and abandoned military vehicles and equipment at the Qamishli international airport, formerly a joint Syrian-russian military base, in northeastern Syria's city of Qamishli on December 9, 2024. Islamist-led rebels on December 8 ousted president Bashar al-Assad in a lightning offensive that saw them sweep swathes of Syrian territory from government control. (Photo by Delil souleiman / AFP)
Rebels take Deir Ezzor and Israel bombards Syria - Trending

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Trending Middle EastDecember 11, 2024
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Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad Al Jalali meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Damascus. Reuters/Iran's Foreign Ministry/WANA
TrendingSyrian PM says Assad abandoned government and Captagon production grinding to halt

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Trending Middle EastDecember 10, 2024
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The Syrian opposition flag flies at the Syrian embassy building in Moscow, Russia, 09 December 2024. The Russian News Agency TASS reported, citing a Kremlin source, that President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Moscow, and Russian authorities granted him asylum under 'humanitarian reasons. ' Syrian rebels entered Damascus on 08 December 2024 and announced in a televised statement the 'Liberation of the city of Damascus and the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad'. EPA / SERGEI ILNITSKY
TrendingAssad in Moscow and US strikes ISIS targets

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Trending Middle EastDecember 09, 2024
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People attend Saint Barbara's Day mass at the St. Barbara church in Aleppo on December 4, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
Syria's Christians on edge and rebels take Hama - Trending

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Trending Middle EastDecember 06, 2024
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Christians attend a Syriac Orthodox Easter service in the mainly Kurdish city of Qamishli, in Syria's north-eastern Hasakah province, in 2022. AFP
Renewed Islamist insurgency leaves Syria’s Christians on edge

Country’s dwindling Christian population among minorities fearing persecution amid escalating violence

MENADecember 06, 2024
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FILE - Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo / Fatima Shbair, File)
TrendingRights group accuses Israel of genocide and Trump nominates crypto advocate

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Trending Middle EastDecember 05, 2024
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Displaced people who fled from Aleppo countryside, ride on a vehicle with belongings in Tabqa, Syria December 3, 2024. REUTERS / Orhan Qereman
TrendingBattle for Aleppo and French-Saudi conference on Palestine

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Trending Middle EastDecember 04, 2024
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Members of civil defence remove bodies of people killed during hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, including fighters, from a temporary cemetery to be taken for burial in their home town and villages, after a ceasefire between the two, in Tyre, southern Lebanon December 2, 2024. REUTERS / Thaier Al-Sudani TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
TrendingIsrael strikes Lebanon and US monitors Syria

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Trending Middle EastDecember 03, 2024
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Anti-government fighters reach the highway near the the northern Syrian town of Azaz on December 1, 2024. The United States and its allies France, Germany and Britain called Sunday for "de-escalation" in Syria and urged in a joint statement for the protection of civilians and infrastructure. (Photo by Rami al SAYED / AFP)
TrendingRebels take control of Aleppo and Trump threatens Brics tariffs

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Trending Middle EastDecember 02, 2024
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Jaysus Zain frm Sudan performed spoken word poetry. Janelle Meager / The National
VideoUAE diversity honoured at NYUAD

Hekayah's 10th anniversary brought multicultural song, dance and poetry to the stage

Music & On-stageNovember 29, 2024
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Displaced residents return to Dahiyeh, in Beirut, Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo / Bilal Hussein)
Israeli strikes in Lebanon may constitute war crimes and Dubai raises tolls - Trending

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PodcastsNovember 29, 2024
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