@amkdurie
Multimedia journalist, writer & photographer Work featured in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, TIME Magazine, The Financial Times, The Economist, Reuters, Rolling Stone & more 👁 on MENA, Mediterranean, culture, migration, and human rights 🌐 www.alexdurie.com
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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I went to a rave in Damascus and wrote about the intersection of underground music, politics, and power in modern-day Syria, as Syrian producers and DJs told me what's most required for the music scene in Syria to properly grow again, for @gqmagazine.bsky.social
www.gqmiddleeast.com/article/syri...
What does it mean to return home to a country that was destroyed by 14 years of war, and disconnected from many global tech developments? For @wired.com I wrote about the logistics of return for Syrian entrepreneurs and their mission to make Syria feel like home again 🇸🇾
www.wired.me/story/syrias...
It's clear an atrocity has been unfolding in Iran, under cover of an Internet blackout.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
All the footage included in this video has been taken by RSF forces themselves.
I am raising funds on behalf of Ghaima Initiative to support the relief effort. All links in my bio.
#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan
Prominent Egyptian Blogger and Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah Released from Prison
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.
“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
@kshams.bsky.social gives a close and highly critical reading of English PEN’s charter.
To be clear: no one should bomb a hospital, for any reason, ever.
But for Israel to label Iran “terrorist tyrants” after missiles hit a hospital in southern Israel is shameless hypocrisy from the demented regime
Israel has attacked 600 hospitals since Oct 7
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
On Day 250 of Laila Soueif’s hunger strike to free her son, read this powerful reflection by her sister – and Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s aunt – the writer Ahdaf Soueif. #FreeAlaa
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
The EU & Greece are pushing to open a massive migrant camp in the middle of a highly flammable pine forest in Lesvos.
My latest story examines the environmental harm of this move and of the EU's border policies.
For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social with Goldy Levy
www.context.news/socioeconomi...
Alaa Abd el-Fattah's "incarceration has become a test case for British diplomacy in Egypt—a test that Britain has largely failed." @samknightwrites.bsky.social
Laila Soueif is now dying in hospital in London after 245 days on hunger strike. It's time to #FreeAlaa
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d’Or at #Cannes2025 for It Was Just an Accident.
@amkdurie.bsky.social featured the film in our guide to the best titles from the Middle East and north Africa. Read it here→https://hyphenonline.com/2025/05/23/cannes-best-film-mena-region-palme-dor/
The #Cannes2025 film festival’s 78th edition closes this weekend with standout films from Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Jafar Panahi and others.
Read Alexander Durie’s roundup of the best Arab and north African titles.
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/23/c...
For WeTransfer / @wepresent.bsky.social, I wrote about the photography of Myriam Meloni and the political, social, and environmental role of Morocco's "grands taxis," specifically the Mercedes 240D 🇲🇦 wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/myri...
When Reform and the Tories form a coalition and get outstanding results at the next General Election, let's not act surprised, when there's front pages like this by @observeruk.bsky.social & @tortoisemedia.bsky.social -- marking a clear attempt by media to push the far-right into the mainstream.
an entire people is being deliberately starved to death
"the Israeli government instead chose to break the ceasefire... Israel’s soul is being ripped out and we, members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, fear for the future of the Israel we love"
A brave letter:
www.ft.com/content/6a50...
4 people are to be deported by Germany for participating in pro-Palestine protests as part of 🇩🇪's crackdown on 🇵🇸 solidarity.
They are citizens of the US, Poland & Ireland and have not been convicted of a crime.
2 of these 4 are trans.
By @hahauenstein.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...
Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
Our story on how the ancient Mediterranean city of Alexandria is threatened by climate issues - notably sea level rise - is number 1 in @theguardian.com climate coverage.
Read it here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Some photos I took on 35mm film in Al Max, Alexandria's fishermen village, also known as "the Venice of Egypt" 🇪🇬, for this story on how coastal communities are coping in sinking cities, for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For @theguardian.com, I went to Alexandria in Egypt, which is 1 of 7 sinking cities in the world due to rising sea levels.
Heba Khamis and I spoke with fishermen to understand the city's bond with the Mediterranean Sea and the threat of climate change in Egypt 🇪🇬
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Alexandria, Egypt is one of the world’s sinking cities, so are Venice, Miami, Lagos, Jakarta. The IPCC predicts that with global sea levels rising at the current rate, thousands of km of the Nile delta could be fully submerged by 2100. @amkdurie.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a story that was set to reveal this week one of the biggest bottlenecks to our clean, electrified future. Then on Thursday night, it blew up.
Not my story, but the very thing—transformers—I was reporting on. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
NEW: Hossam Shabat’s Last Article
Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist
Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous
dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
In his first official statement, one that had to be dictated over the phone because he continues to be held in ICE custody, US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil pens a MUST-READ letter.
"Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Let this sink in.
The lawyers of US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil have not been able to have A SINGLE PHONE CALL with their client since he was arrested on Saturday night. Today, the court had to order that Khalil be allowed calls.
This is not normal. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/u...
