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Sarah Khalil

Sarah Khalil

Sarah is a news editor and journalist at The New Arab. She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics focusing on journalism in translation from Arabic. She has over 12 years experience in TV and online journalism, including six years at The New Arab.

Areas of focus: Lebanese politics, women’s issues and culture in the MENA region.

Follow her on Twitter: @skhalil1984

Dozens protested in the Lebanese capital on Sunday to demand amendment to the nationality law, which prohibits Lebanese women from passing on their citizenship to their children and foreign spouses.

11 March, 2019

An Oscar win for American-Egyptian actor Rami Malik's has seen his identity as a member of Egypt's Coptic minority come under the spotlight.

25 February, 2019

Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki fell short on taking home an Oscar for her film 'Capernaum', but critics say the nomination put Lebanese cinema on the international stage.

25 February, 2019

Film review: 'About a War' explores complex personal motivations behind ex-fighters' decisions to take up arms - and what happens when they try to come to terms with killing.

30 November, 2018

Horror film The Nun has been banned from cinemas across Lebanon after it was deemed offensive to the Christian faith.

17 September, 2018

The SAFAR Film Festival returned to London on Thursday with screenings of classic and contemporary Arab films, many of which have never been showcased outside the Middle East before.

15 September, 2018

Mashrou' Leila, Chyno, Tanjaret Daghet, Jay Wud and Sand Moon play an intimate charity gig in a private home on Wednesday night, in support of refugee campaign #GiveAHome.

21 September, 2017

Eighteen-year-old Maryam Dajani rallied on Wednesday dozens of her peers and supporters to protest discrimination she faced by one of her professors at at the prestigious American University of Beirut.

20 September, 2017

Israeli forces demolished a recently built school in the West Bank village of Jub al-Dib on Tuesday, just hours before the new school year began.

24 August, 2017

Scrapping the controversial rape law in Lebanon remains a small step towards ending violence against women, KAFA activist Maya Ammar tells The New Arab.

17 August, 2017