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Sarah El Deeb
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Sarah El Deeb
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Associated Press Investigative journalist. Based in Beirut. email me at seldeeb at ap dot org
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    May 9, 2023
    Congrats to @AP team awarded the @PulitzerPrizes in Public Service @lhinnant @VasilisaUKR @mstyslav9 @EMaloletka. honored to have contributed to the coverage! posting below the winning work, incl chilling record of life (& death) in #mariupol, 2 reports I contributed to &1 I led
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Aug 5, 2020
    TV and radio presenters reading the names of missing or wounded people all throughout the night during the live coverage of the catastrophic #Beirut explosion - hundreds of names. That is something I can’t forget #BeirutBlast. #لن_ننسي
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Aug 5, 2020
    Homeless but had a bed to sleep in because of #Beirut friends.Wounds need stitches but city hospitals overwhelmed. A small clinic can take care of me. It’s the city open gushing wound that will need teams of healers and lots of love &care to tend to. #dayafter #Beirut_Explosion
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    May 13, 2022
    Replying to @seldeeb
    @ShazaAbed was right next to Shireen when she was shot. She was there long before, growing up watching her. “Shireen is a school.” May her memory live in you and many more like you, professional, intrepid and compassionate journalists of Palestine
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Aug 10, 2018
    She survived breast cancer and lived to tell! 🎩 @elissakh
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    Elissa
    @elissakh
    Aug 7, 2018
    You are the reason I am strong and healthy... You are my strength. And this story is a thank you “For all those who love me” ❤ youtu.be/jYqd7qPNTm0
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Aug 15, 2021
    Families told @AP that girls riding home in a motorized rickshaw in the northern Takhar province were stopped and lashed for wearing “revealing sandals.” Afghan women fear return to 'dark days' amid Taliban sweep ⁦@zkaram⁩ & Ahmad Seir
    Zarmina Kakar a women's rights activist cry during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Kakar was a year old when the Taliban entered Kabul the first time in 1996, and recalled a time when her mother took her out to buy her ice cream, back when the Taliban ruled. Her mother was whipped by a Taliban fighter for revealing her face for a couple of minutes. “Today again, I...
    Afghan women fear return to 'dark days' amid Taliban sweep
    From apnews.com
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    May 11, 2022
    One of the Arab world best known journalist and an Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abi Akleh was shot and killed during #Israel raid in West Bank (from @AP)- Shocking and heartbreaking
    An undated photo released bu the Al Jazeera network shows Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist for Al Jazeera network. Abu Akle. the well-known Palestinian reporter for the broadcaster's Arabic language, channel was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday, May 11, 2022, the Palestinian health ministry said. (Al Jazeera via AP)
    Al Jazeera reporter killed during Israeli raid in West Bank
    From apnews.com
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Feb 3, 2022
    Investigators build a case for IS crimes against Yazidis (from @AP) this is a report I worked on for months in 2019 about Hajj Abdullah , the Islamic State group leader killed today in #Syria apnews.com/article/accbea…
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Apr 4, 2021
    Falsely accused of blocking the Suez Canal, #Egypt first female ship's captain says she says people still "don't accept the idea of girls working in the sea away from their families for a long time". 2% of world seafarers are women.
    Marwa Elselehdar
    Marwa Elselehdar: 'I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal'
    From bbc.com
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Aug 23, 2018
    #Lebanon diva @elissakh breaks taboo with clip announcing cancer fight - @AP @Zkaram reports apnews.com/fd814d7bfbd24d…
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Feb 1, 2022
    Some personal professional news: I've joined @AP Global investigations team. An impressive crew with a great editor @nixonron. Looking forward to this new challenge. I will remain based in #Beirut. Here is some of the team's work = apnews.com/hub/ap-investi…
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    nixonron
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    Feb 1, 2022
    I am pleased to announce three new additions to the @AP global investigations team: Grace Ekpu, Sarah El Deeb, and Helen Wieffering. ⁩
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    May 11, 2022
    Farewell Shireen from #Ramallah
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    Alaa Daraghme
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    May 11, 2022
    “Goodbye Shireen”, Ramallah
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Oct 13, 2022
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    Read the story of Olga in this @AP investigation apnews.com/article/ukrain… . Thousands of children are still believed in #Russia. Ukraine says it has returned 96, so far. 8/End
    Olga Lopatkina embraces her adopted children in a park in Loue, western France, Saturday, July 2, 2022. After two months of negotiation and an initial objection from a senior Russian official, DPR authorities finally agreed to allow a volunteer with power of attorney from Lopatkina to collect her children who were evacuated from Mariupol. An Associated Press investigation has found that Russia’s strategy to take...
    How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians
    From apnews.com
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    Sarah El Deeb
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    Oct 20, 2022
    WHO #Syria boss pressured staff to sign contracts with high-ranking Syrian government politicians and consistently misspent WHO and donor funds, @AP ⁦@mylcheng⁩ finds apnews.com/article/bce4ad…