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Nick McAlpin

McAlpin

Nick is a journalist who has worked at The New Arab since March 2021. He holds a master's degree in social anthropology and a BA in French and Arabic. He lived in Jordan for a year during his undergraduate studies. Nick started his journalism career as a freelancer in 2019.

 

Areas of focus: Palestine, UK politics, media, religion

 

Follow him on X: @NickGMcAlpin

Mesh, a doctor in Britain's NHS public health system, said he believed he could speak on behalf of 'a lot of healthcare workers who feel tired of mourning the loss of thousands and thousands of lives'.

08 December, 2023

Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post has faced criticism after it removed an article claiming a Palestinian baby was a doll without fully admitting to this.

05 December, 2023

A Cairo peace summit ended without countries agreeing a joint statement, but Egypt's presidency published a release saying the war in Gaza had 'revealed a shortcoming in the values of the international community in addressing crises'.

22 October, 2023

Experts have expressed doubt after Israel released a recording allegedly featuring two Hamas operatives discussing Palestinian Islamic Jihad's potential responsibility for the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital massacre.

20 October, 2023

Palestinians in Gaza have been told to head south of Wadi Gaza, a valley that cuts across the strip, and there are fears that Israel is trying to ethnically cleanse them.

13 October, 2023

Two medics were killed after health ministry ambulances were hit by an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza on Saturday, Palestine Red Crescent Society spokesperson Nebal Farsakh said.

08 October, 2023

Moustafa Mohammad Sharaf, 37, was among scores of Syrian and Lebanese migrants abducted by a Libyan militia en route to Italy. His brother said last week that he was being tortured and beaten.

06 October, 2023

Moustafa Mohammad Sharaf, 37, was among some 110 Syrian and Lebanese migrants who left northern Lebanon by boat on 10 August. They were abducted en route by the Tariq Ben Zeyad Brigade, according to a human rights group.

29 September, 2023

A UN report on Saturday gave a death toll of 11,300 for catastrophic flooding in the Libyan city of Derna, but a spokesperson later told The New Arab that including this figure was an 'unfortunate mistake'.

17 September, 2023

A cataclysmic deluge hit Derna, the place most heavily impacted by the flooding in northeast Libya, but other areas affected include the cities of Al-Bayda, Al-Marj, and Soussa, and the town of Shahhat.

16 September, 2023