Dunia El-Zobaidi

Dunia El-Zobaidi is an Arab Weekly correspondent in London.

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A combination of handout CCTV pictures shows (L-R) British teenagers Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum passing through security barriers at Gatwick Airport, February 2o15. (AFP)
Begum’s case is an exceptional warning for future radicals
March 02, 2021
Mohammed Al-Khatib in oractice run (Al-Khatib Facebook page)
Mohammed Al-Khatib wants to make Palestine proud in Tokyo 2021
July 21, 2020
A thank you NHS sign stands printed on a road in Manchester, northern England. (AP)
Medical professionals in London offer insights about healthcare in the time of pandemic
April 23, 2020
A banner displaying a tribute to NHS workers is seen on a construction outside the NHS Nightingale Hospital at the Excel Centre, London, April 9. (Reuters)
How Arabs abroad are coping with life under quarantine
April 10, 2020
Cover of L.L. Wynn’s “Love, Sex and Desire in Modern Egypt.”
L.L. Wynn’s ‘Love, Sex and Desire in Modern Egypt’
December 15, 2018
Cover of Akbar Ahmed’s “Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity.”
Looking at Muslims through a ‘Journey into Europe’
November 24, 2018
Cover of “Coping with Uncertainty: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa.”
New book explores Arab youths’ struggles seven years after uprisings
September 15, 2018
Cover of poet Leila Chatti’s “Tunsiya/Amrikiya.”
‘Tunsiya/Amrikiya,’ an anthology by poet Leila Chatti
July 21, 2018
Captivating fiction. Cover of Tony Ardizzone’s “The Arab’s Ox: Stories of Morocco.”
‘The Arab’s Ox: Stories of Morocco’ by Tony Ardizzone
June 30, 2018
Unique taste. The breakfast special: the baked egg manousheh. (The Lebanese Bakery)
Lebanon’s manousheh takes on pizza in London
May 26, 2018
Cover of Saadia Zahidi’s “Fifty Million Rising.”
‘Fifty Million Rising’ sheds light on Muslim women at the workplace
May 12, 2018
A tourist takes a picture of a woman and child reading a book as they sit inside a perspex container and go about their normal family life backdropped by the River Thames and St Paul's Cathedral, centre, in the City of London, Friday, March 9, 2018. Amnesty International UK is staging the living installation over Mother's Day weekend, entitled 'The Undeniable Wonder of Family Life', celebrating the joy of spending time with family and highlighting the importance of reuniting refugee families.(AP Photo/Alast
Arab mothers describe cross-cultural experience raising a child in the UK
March 10, 2018
An Arab woman holds American flags in Flint, Michigan, last June. (AP)
How significant is rejection of MENA category from the 2020 US census?
March 03, 2018
A woman shouts slogans in support of the US Muslim community at Foley Square in New York City, last June. (AFP)
What will happen when Muslims outnumber Jews in the US by 2040?
February 17, 2018
‘Farewell Shiraz,’ an exile’s journey to another Iran
January 22, 2018

Celebrating Christmas means different things to different people
January 05, 2018

Companies pitch MENA region services at London conference
December 18, 2017

The religious factor in Muslim foster care in the West
December 03, 2017

The controversy over a British Muslim family fostering a Christian girl has bubbled up in British

MENA Britain Trade Expo provides unique insight on women in business
November 25, 2017

About 600 people at­tended this year’s MENA Britain Trade Expo in London, which focused on busine

‘Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic’ injects sarcasm into serious topic
October 07, 2017

At a time extremist ideologies and the fear of the “other” are rising, several writers and artist