Nafeesa Syeed
@NafeesaSyeed
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Writer/Editor. Lecturer/research scholar @Yale. Past: @latimes @business @ap @ajfaultlines in MENA/South Asia/DC - Fellow @the_IAS @ucla. Views are my own.
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Joined August 2009
Mariam Dagga, visual freelance journalist for AP, chronicled the wounded & dead that every day flowed into southern Gaza’s main hospital. Dagga was killed today by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital. A gallery of her photos, curated by AP photo editors: https://t.co/kVakuEu1SS
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Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist for The Associated Press, chronicled the stream of wounded and dead that every day flowed into southern Gaza’s main hospital, where she was often based.
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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @AP. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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Health officials say Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza have killed five journalists, including a freelancer who worked for The Associated Press. Mariam Dagga was a visual journalist who...
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital https://t.co/MMKatjgeAa
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"Why did I write these stories? It was like you almost put your own hand inside your heart or in your mind, and what you pull out you did not choose, because you could not see, you pulled it out in the dark." https://t.co/kEBRBDpIJn (Via @sansip)
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“What ends up in the writing is what the characters see, and what they see is determined by how they feel.”
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🌲[TMR 50 • RETURNING HOME] A Kashmiri writer visits Cashmere, WA—named after her homeland—and explores what it means to belong. From diaspora to Indigenous erasure, @NafeesaSyeed traces layered histories. 🔗 Read the centerpiece essay:
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After going to Cashmere in Washington state last summer, Nafeesa Syeed wrote the following essay on colonization, displacement, and belonging.
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In conversation with Nafeesa Syeed (@NafeesaSyeed), Zahid Rafiq discusses how most artistic renderings of Kashmir leave out the people, focusing only on its beautiful landscapes. Who’s doing the looking, Rafiq asks, and who’s doing the telling? https://t.co/yz6rUzDJ5v
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New at PB, Nafeesa Syeed (@NafeesaSyeed) chats with Zahid Rafiq, author of “The World With Its Mouth Open” (@Tin_House), which explores the lives of contemporary, everyday Kashmiris living in one of the world’s most militarized zones.
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In my essay, "A Kashmiri in Cashmere," I visit the small town of Cashmere, Washington, and explore the curiously intertwined pioneer, Indigenous and Kashmiri histories. In @TheMarkazReview's 50th Issue: Returning Home: https://t.co/ZesYAhB8aK
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📣 [NEW ISSUE] 🏠 Can you ever really go home? In our 50th issue, writers reflect on return, loss & memory — from Palestine to Kashmir. 🔗Read now → https://t.co/OQu7nYjQIF ✨ Featuring works by @helou_karina, @NafeesaSyeed, @myr36573, @AbdohSalar, @atimetwaly, @maialnakib,
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“Per population, the death toll of Palestinian journalists is roughly equivalent to the killing of 8,500 U.S. newsroom employees.”
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Excited to be in convo w/ @BarnardCollege Prof. @nsharmawriter about her debut collection of essays, The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown (@penguinpress 2024). Many thanks to @Yale Prof. @NafeesaSyeed for organizing us & to @YaleSouthAsia & @YaleMacMillan for the
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I’m talking to family and friends. Many told me they wished they didn’t return to their homes to see them. Every house is either destroyed or burnt. I just learnt about so many friends and neighbors who were killed before. Many families are digging with their bare hands through
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New drone video from the Palisades fire shows the extensive damage to homes along the shoreline.
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There is a ceasefire deal, so I want to share this story from my past year reporting inside the State Dept. trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza? 1/
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It wasn't just wealthy celebrities that lost homes in the Pacific Palisades. It was also working-class, middle-class families in Altadena, a diverse community of homeowners, renters who lost everything in the Eaton fire. I spoke to them for @teenvogue.
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"Nature took everything away."
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LIVE: View of Gaza as Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire agreement
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I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer for @latimes. Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling the blazes in Southern California this week:
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The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons.
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Lake Avenue in Pasadena is in ruins. It’s surreal to see a neighborhood you were literally born in, leveled to the ground. I don’t even have the words right now.
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My account of what the first 24 hours were like in LA -- and were are still monitoring active fires around us, with bags packed and ready to evacuate if we have to #lafires
https://t.co/QNVrvsi0Eo
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A fragmented city response revealed how even America's richest regions can't keep up with the new normal
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