Sarah El Deeb
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Associated Press Investigative journalist. Based in Beirut. email me at seldeeb at ap dot org
Lebanon
Joined May 2009
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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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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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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@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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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 =
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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Tear gas too soon - as protesters, mostly angry, try to approach parliament. #لبنان_ينتفض #Beirut_Explosion
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JOB ALERT: and a great opportunity @AP is hiring an #Afghanistan #Pakistan news director who lead our coverage and team of reporters, editors and producers in this important part of the world. Fluency in Urdu, Dari or Pashto is a must. deadline July 4. Apply Apply!.
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There is a certain degree of anxiety that comes w/ living w/ prolonged power cuts i never thought i had until i started noticing how life returns to 'my soul' when power comes back.i am no baker,no doctor,no cook, not some1 who depends on a ventilator. #Lebanonincrisis.
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We’ve heard it many times before: no place is safe in #gaza. @ap reporter @faresakram, a resident of Gaza, lost father, land and family to previous #israel strikes. Today he lost the last place he felt safe. The office. READ hère
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"Shireen! Wake Up! Shireen!" journalists shout in shock, disbelief on Shireen Abu Aqleh, after she was pronounced dead at hospital. Death is mostly cruel. This is very cruel.
´Wake up Shireen’. Thé moment Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was pronounced dead after being shot by Israel forces while reporting in Jenin, thé occupied West Bank.
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I spoke to @LeilaFadel on her first day as host of the @MorningEdition -a small reunion on air-- Great to hear you Leila. we spoke about IS militants prison break in #Syria.
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“The actions and omissions of Lebanese authorities created an unreasonable risk of life," @HRW report found #BeirutBlast #Aug4 #Beirutexplosion #Lebanon @bmroue reports
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#Sudan military authorities lift internet blackout, revealing videos of violent crackdown via @YousraElbagir.
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ICYMI @AP and @frontlinepbs are gathering, verifying & documenting evidence of potential war crimes in #Ukraine, including attacks on hospitals, schools, residential areas & other civilian structures following #Russia's invasion
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After more than 900 days in detention and reports of abuse and torture, #saudi @LoujainHathloul is due to appear in court today.
Good morning @LoujainHathloul. I hope today I’ll finally hear your voice and you’ll finally sleep in your room. I miss you more than words could ever describe.
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The incident marks the latest puzzling move concerning WhatsApp’s owner Facebook Inc. that’s left #Palestinian users or allies bewildered as to why they’ve been targeted, or if indeed they’d been singled out for censorship at all. @FaresAkram @ayaelb
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يقام عزاء الاستاذ #علاء_الديب مساء اليوم بعد صلاة المغرب بالقاعة الكبري بمسجد عمرو مكرم بالتحرير.
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Taliban fighters in Kabul say they miss the war. Can they become a more moderate force? - Now the fighters are standing at checkpoints, searching cars and inspecting vehicle registrations in the city @sgreports
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#Turkey's comments are the strongest threat yet of a military operation in NE #Syria where US troops and other coalition forces are also based. A deal reached in August to defuse tension is clearly not cutting it for #Erdogan.
Turkey's president threatens to launch a solo military operation into northeastern Syria, saying the Turkish army is ready to move against U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces "maybe today, maybe tomorrow."
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The next VP of the United States.
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Some of the scenes captured by our brave photographers who were on the frontline #beirut #lebanon @HassanAmmar5 @hmalla72 @bilalhusseinz and @altawilfadi
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Friends are asking how to help #Beirut - a good place to start the @RedCrossLebanon - starting here a list of places #BeirutExplosions.
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@chehayebk has joined the @AP, covering #syria and #lebanon and based in Beirut. Great to have you onboard Kareem. 🍀.
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Chants against the president, the security and the nizam , regime - many armed with brooms as some came to volunteer to clean and protest #Beirut_Explosion #لبنان_ينتفض
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AP Exclusive: Anti-Maduro coalition grew from secret talks #Venezuela, encrypted messages, opposition in exile, #Canada active in Lima group and a consistent Trump
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Oh my god. The building where al Jazeera’s office is housed has just been taken down by Israeli airstrikes. There was a warning and evacuated. It houses offices and private homes. I can’t believe it.
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Protecting Shireen in her death.
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In-depth investigation on who ordered the ammonium nitrate that blew up in #beirut leads to 3 #syria nationals with #Russia nationality linked to Assad government and on US sanctions list. @ferashatoum on @ALJADEEDNEWS.
Incredible investigative work by @ferashatoum that links Syrian businessman close to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to the ammonium nitrate that entered Beirut's port in 2013 and fueled the August blast. Everyone needs to watch this.
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This video shows the shooting of #shaimaa_sabagh. In background, one shouts "shoot! Shoot!"
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And on Instagram - an account to locate the victims of #BeirutExplosions . Hundreds were killed and wounded in the explosion that devastated the city-
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This is strongest #earthquake I felt since #egypt’s 1992 destructive one. In #beirut, waking up in middle of night to shaking building brought back terrifying memories of #aug4 #beirutblast in 2020. Where to hide?.
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Tens of Thousands don’t know the fate of their loved ones, detained and missing in #syria prisons and secret detention facilities #justice #Koblenz.
On the eve of the verdict of #Koblenz trial, my dad completes 3116 days in #Assad prisons. I don't want to wait for him to be killed under torture or by #COVID19 & then seek justice in a European court. I'd rather have my dad free & still seek justice 4 him & 4 all of us!. #syria
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#Russia’s security service works to subvert #Moldova’s pro-Western government “The Russians are very good at exporting two things: one, energy, and the second, corruption,” said a senior Moldovan security official” @CatherineBelton
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Ayesha, a 43-year-old grandmother, lost her youngest son years ago, is the main caregiver to his 2 orphans and has miraculously survived the #earthquake. She like many #Syria women feels like the "rubble of the world is on her shoulders" w/ @FayAbuelgasim
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Honored &proud of @ap’s two @opcofamerica awards for covering the war in #ukraine, the war crimes project and the series on #Mariupol. I worked with a tireless and determined team and it’s rewarding to get peer recognition. Check out our work in following tweets.
The OPC is pleased to announce winners of the 84th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards! .
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A “tailored airstrike” w/ 2 Hellfires on the balcony of where zawahri usually sat. @ZekeJMiller @AamerISmad : Watching al-Qaida chief's 'pattern of life' key to his death (from @AP)
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May we never forget #august4 #beirutportexplosion « none would forget that moment at 6.08pm and the harrowing details of the day that changed their lives. » #lebanon @dalalmawad
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Tell their stories - remember their names. #aug4 #beirutblast #BeirutExplosion #ayearlater #aug42020 more than 214 were killed when ammonium nitrate exploded in the heart of the city, at the port
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« From Palestine, was with you Shireen Abu Akleh » - a sign off, a glum indelible headline Thursday by the Palestinian daily al-Haya al-Jadida #شرين_ابو_عاقلة #ShireenAbuAkleh #rip
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Ibrahim Hoteit was 1 of main engines behind organizing families demanding justice in #BeirutBlast. 2day he broke rank. Colleagues along the path for over 1yr believe "it is not him" speaking, concerned he's under pressure after street violence.
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A bit of a break after one of the most intense months. Back soon. Be safe. From my heart peace to #Beirut تنذكر ولا تنعاد. #aug4 #BeirutExplosion May it be always remembered, never repeated.
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When we found Olga, she was in a small town in France just about to win the fight of her life — one mother against a vast Russian strategy to take Ukrainian children 1/X
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This afternoon, i had no internet & for a brief moment no power.I can't describe what happened to my brain when those two stopped & i had no choice in the matter. it is a privilege in crisis-hit #lebanon to have those services. thousands go on for days w/o.Entertain the thought!.
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Predictably, as the war on IS wraps up—leaving all root causes unaddressed—it is also reigniting the other conflicts it had merely concealed.
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Heartbreaking scenes from #Afghanistan #kabul.
One of the most iconic and symbolic scenes of our generation. US Air Force *excuses* itself through fleeing (and falling) young Afghans at Kabul’s airport, among other insane scenes
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#Lebanon's star filmmaker @NadineLabaki makes Oscars history with her nomination (from @AP) #Capernaum
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'Entire Families Wiped Out': U.S. Airstrikes Killed Many Civilians In #Syria’s #Raqqa: NPR @Rsherlock @lalarian
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