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Sheeffah Shiraz

Shiraz

Sheeffah is The New Arab’s features editor. She is a London-based journalist who studied Journalism and Economics at City University, London. She started her journalism career in print working as a features writer for a women’s lifestyle magazine for over four years. She later moved into news journalism online, and was a news editor at TNA before taking over the features desk in 2015.

 

Areas of focus: News, politics, analysis, human rights, women's rights, culture and lifestyle

 

Follow her on Twitter: @SheeWrites

Traumatised Gaza children 'live in fear'

Children in Gaza continue to suffer from trauma, distress and fear, a year on from the 51-day Israeli onslaught.

08 July, 2015

Yemen civilians 'paying high price' as airstrikes continue

A large number of civilians, including children, are being killed daily in Yemen as a rights group reveals the coalition's 'failure to abide by international humanitarian law'.

02 July, 2015

How Israel is uprooting West Bank's future

Feature: Israeli settlers and soldiers are uprooting thousands of olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers, unlawfully targeting a sector that contributes millions in income to some of the poorest communities.

28 June, 2015

The global crisis of child labour

Almost 170 million youths around the world are trapped in child labour, as World Day Against Child Labour looks into efforts to annihilate the issue.

11 June, 2015

Boko Haram's 'reign of terror'

As Nigeria marks the first anniversary since the kidnapping of 219 Chibok schoolgirls, Amnesty International urges for immediate action against the militant group.

14 April, 2015

Israeli settlers 'profit' from abuse of Palestinian child labour

Israeli farmers in the occupied West Bank are using Palestinian children as workers and placing them in danger, a human rights group has found.

13 April, 2015

Syrian regime 'deliberately blocking civilian aid'

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos says government hurdles have prevented agencies from visiting 30 of requested 33 sites this year.

27 March, 2015

Syria's war criminals must be held to account

Syrian regime forces and allied militias have committed violations of international humanitarian law amounting to war crimes. So why are US officials preparing for accommodation with Assad?

16 March, 2015

Gaza rebuild 'will take century unless siege is lifted'

The Oxfam charity calls on Israel to lift blockade, saying Palestinian enclave will not recover from war damage for 100 years at current rate of reconstruction.

27 February, 2015

The plight of Lebanon's working street children

Thousands of children, including many Syrian refugees, are living and working in desperate conditions across Lebanon.

26 February, 2015