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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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Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid meets with the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, during the emergency Arab summit organised by Egypt this week, in Cairo, Egypt March 4, 2025. Iraqi President Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE.

TrendingArab League endorses unified Gaza plan and Israel strikes Syria

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

Trending Middle EastMarch 05, 2025

Palestinian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Mustafa during a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in Cairo on Monday. EPA

TrendingArab Summit in Cairo and Palestinian Oscars win

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastMarch 04, 2025

A boy sits as Palestinians gather to receive aid provided by UNRWA including food supplies, after Israel says it has ceased entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, outside a distribution center, at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, March 2, 2025. REUTERS / Mahmoud Issa

TrendingIsrael blocks Gaza aid and Druze-HTS clashes in Syria

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastMarch 03, 2025

TOPSHOT - A Syrian Kurdish woman waves a flag bearing a picture of the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan, as people gather in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria to listen to a message from the jailed leader on February 27, 2025. Ocalan issued a historic call on February 27 for his Kurdish militant force to disband and his fighters to lay down their arms. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

TrendingPKK leader Ocalan calls for group to disband and Nvidia beats revenue forecasts

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

Trending Middle EastFebruary 28, 2025

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 13: Members of the United Nations Security Council listen as Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks via video during a meeting on the situation in the Middle East at the U. N. headquarters on February 13, 2025 in New York City. The Security Council met to discuss the situation in Yemen after the U. N. suspended its humanitarian operations in Yemen's Saada region following the detention of U. N. staff members. The Houthi rebels have detained dozens of U. N. staffers and people associated with aid groups and civil society in recent months. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

TrendingUN humanitarian chief on global need, and Syria mines threat

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

Trending Middle EastFebruary 27, 2025

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (C) delivers a speech during the Syrian National Dialogue Conference in Damascus, Syria, 25 February 2025. The conference, which aims to approve recommendations related to the foundations of the country's upcoming transitional phase, kicked off with the participation of hundreds of figures representing the spectrum of Syrian society. About 600 people from different Syrian governorates are participating in the conference to discuss six main files, most notably transitional justice, drafting the constitution, issues of personal freedoms, and the country's economic principles. EPA / MOHAMMED AL RIFAI

TrendingAl Shara warns armed groups in Syria

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

Trending Middle EastFebruary 26, 2025

Druze residents of the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights wave a Syrian flag as they take part in a rally on February 14, 2025, to protest against the 1981 annexation law of the strategic plateau which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

TrendingSyrian National Dialogue and President Sheikh Mohamed in Italy

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

Trending Middle EastFebruary 25, 2025

ALEPPO, SYRIA - JANUARY 24: A fighter with the Syrian insurgents keeps guard at a former military base which pro-Assad forces had tried to defend in the last days of the war on January 24, 2025 in Aleppo, Syria. Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, saw years of destruction from fighting during the civil war in Syria. Following the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad by opposition groups in a quick offensive on December 8, the country is looking to gain economic momentum after years of global sanctions on the Assad-led government. Arab and Western countries have been reopening diplomatic relations with Syria's new de facto authorities, headed by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS. Fourteen years of war have left the Syrian economy damaged, with tens of thousands of residents living on or below the poverty line. The World Food Program estimates that 13.1 million Syrians do not have enough to eat. (Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

TrendingEU to lift some Syria sanctions and Hassan Nasrallah's funeral

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastFebruary 24, 2025

Trucks carrying construction materials line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2025, as Hamas handed over the bodies of four deceased Israeli hostages, to the Red Cross early in the morning within a truce deal with Israel. (Photo by AFP)

TrendingArab summit in Riyadh and Armenian church in Jerusalem facing tax threat

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastFebruary 21, 2025

A handout photo made available by the Lebanese Presidency press office shows members of the newly-formed Lebanese government posing for a group picture with the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (C), Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (C-L) and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam (C-R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east Beirut, Lebanon, 11 February 2025. Salam, former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), was designated as Lebanon's Prime Minister by President Joseph Aoun, after gaining the support of the majority of lawmakers during the president's parliamentary consultation, ending more than two years under a caretaker cabinet. EPA / LEBANESE PRESIDENCY PRESS OFFICE HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY / NO SALES

TrendingLebanon on 'armed resistance' and Rubio in the UAE

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastFebruary 20, 2025

Police presence on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, 18 February 2025. EPA / Mohamed Hossam

TrendingEgypt's counter plan on Gaza, and SDF will not lay down arms

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastFebruary 19, 2025

Israeli army forces patrol in the village of Kfarshuba in southern Lebanon on February 17, 2025. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

TrendingIsrael’s deadline to withdraw from Lebanon

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastFebruary 18, 2025

MUNICH, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 14: U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during the 61st Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2025 in Munich, Germany. International defence and security leaders from around the world are gathering for the February 14-16 conference. (Photo by Johannes Simon / Getty Images)

TrendingVance's Munich speech and Rubio in Israel

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastFebruary 17, 2025

World Governments Summit Day 3. Elon Musk and Omar Sultan AlOlama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, UAE. Antonie Robertson/The National

TrendingMusk’s Dubai Loop and Captain America protests - Trending

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastFebruary 14, 2025

The National met with relatives of victims who have been killed as violence in the southern town of Sanamayn has increased since the fall of the Assad regime. Matt Kynaston / The National.

TrendingISIS cells in Syria and Musk speaks at Dubai event

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

Trending Middle EastFebruary 13, 2025

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