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Lemma Shehadi

Lemma is a journalist from London covering international current affairs and culture, currently a One World Media Fellow 2022 working on a reporting project about reforestation and wildfires in northern Lebanon. She won the 2019 Rupert Cornwell Prize for foreign journalism for a series on the Yezidis for The Independent. Previously,she was an arts manager with the Ruya Foundation, supporting contemporary culture in Iraq and commissioning for the Iraqi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Her work has appeared in Disegno, Guardian Cities, The National, and more.

  • Society

    All the world’s a canvas

    by Lemma Shehadi
    by Lemma Shehadi

    “Moving [to London] shows that [modern and contemporary] art from the Middle East has matured to the point where it is ready for an international audience,” explains Hisham Samawi, co-owner …