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Yasmeen Altaji

Yasmeen Altaji

Assistant Podcast Producer
Yasmeen Altaji is an Assistant Podcast Producer at The National’s Abu Dhabi headquarters. Her multimedia reportage — from live coverage of the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University to US special elections — focuses on international politics, art and culture, and has appeared in international print, TV and radio outlets including the BBC, the CBC, PRI's The World and Al Jazeera English. She holds an MA in Political Journalism from Columbia University and a BS in Journalism and BMus. in Voice and Opera from Northwestern University.

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Tanker trucks and others carrying cisterns move to fill up water at the Southern Gaza Desalination plant, which stopped working earlier after Israel cut off electricity supply to the Gaza Strip, in Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Palestinian territory on March 10, 2025. Israel is due to send a delegation to Doha on March 10 for a fresh round of talks on extending a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, after cutting off electricity to ramp up pressure on Hamas. The first phase of the truce ended on March 1 with no agreement on subsequent stages that could secure a permanent end to the war, but both sides have since refrained from resuming full-scale fighting. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Israel-Gaza ceasefire in flux and Syrians flee to Lebanon

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

March 11, 2025
Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government ride in the back of a vehicle moving along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa called for national unity and peace on March 9, amid growing international backlash following the killing of civilians along the country's coast in the worst violence since the overthrow of former president Bashar al-Assad, in the heartland of the Alawite minority to which the latter belongs. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
Clashes in Syria and US cancels Iraq sanctions waiver

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

March 10, 2025
Demonstrators calling for the implementation of the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, in Tel Aviv, Israel. AFP
US engaged in talks with Hamas and UK lifts sanctions on Syria

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

March 07, 2025
A Palestinian flag flutters amid the ruins of buildings in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. AFP
Reactions to Gaza plan and Trump's vision for the Middle East

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

March 06, 2025
Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid meets with the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, during the emergency Arab summit organised by Egypt this week, in Cairo, Egypt March 4, 2025. Iraqi President Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE.
Arab League endorses unified Gaza plan and Israel strikes Syria

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

March 05, 2025
Palestinian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Mustafa during a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in Cairo on Monday. EPA
Arab Summit in Cairo and Palestinian Oscars win

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

March 04, 2025
A boy sits as Palestinians gather to receive aid provided by UNRWA including food supplies, after Israel says it has ceased entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, outside a distribution center, at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, March 2, 2025. REUTERS / Mahmoud Issa
Israel blocks Gaza aid and Druze-HTS clashes in Syria

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

March 03, 2025
TOPSHOT - A Syrian Kurdish woman waves a flag bearing a picture of the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan, as people gather in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria to listen to a message from the jailed leader on February 27, 2025. Ocalan issued a historic call on February 27 for his Kurdish militant force to disband and his fighters to lay down their arms. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
PKK leader Ocalan calls for group to disband and Nvidia beats revenue forecasts

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

February 28, 2025
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 13: Members of the United Nations Security Council listen as Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks via video during a meeting on the situation in the Middle East at the U. N. headquarters on February 13, 2025 in New York City. The Security Council met to discuss the situation in Yemen after the U. N. suspended its humanitarian operations in Yemen's Saada region following the detention of U. N. staff members. The Houthi rebels have detained dozens of U. N. staffers and people associated with aid groups and civil society in recent months. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
UN humanitarian chief on global need, and Syria mines threat

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

February 27, 2025
Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (C) delivers a speech during the Syrian National Dialogue Conference in Damascus, Syria, 25 February 2025. The conference, which aims to approve recommendations related to the foundations of the country's upcoming transitional phase, kicked off with the participation of hundreds of figures representing the spectrum of Syrian society. About 600 people from different Syrian governorates are participating in the conference to discuss six main files, most notably transitional justice, drafting the constitution, issues of personal freedoms, and the country's economic principles. EPA / MOHAMMED AL RIFAI
Al Shara warns armed groups in Syria

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

February 26, 2025
Druze residents of the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights wave a Syrian flag as they take part in a rally on February 14, 2025, to protest against the 1981 annexation law of the strategic plateau which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
Syrian National Dialogue and President Sheikh Mohamed in Italy

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s top stories

February 25, 2025
ALEPPO, SYRIA - JANUARY 24: A fighter with the Syrian insurgents keeps guard at a former military base which pro-Assad forces had tried to defend in the last days of the war on January 24, 2025 in Aleppo, Syria. Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, saw years of destruction from fighting during the civil war in Syria. Following the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad by opposition groups in a quick offensive on December 8, the country is looking to gain economic momentum after years of global sanctions on the Assad-led government. Arab and Western countries have been reopening diplomatic relations with Syria's new de facto authorities, headed by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS. Fourteen years of war have left the Syrian economy damaged, with tens of thousands of residents living on or below the poverty line. The World Food Program estimates that 13.1 million Syrians do not have enough to eat. (Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
EU to lift some Syria sanctions and Hassan Nasrallah's funeral

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

February 24, 2025
Trucks carrying construction materials line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2025, as Hamas handed over the bodies of four deceased Israeli hostages, to the Red Cross early in the morning within a truce deal with Israel. (Photo by AFP)
Arab summit in Riyadh and Armenian church in Jerusalem facing tax threat

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

February 21, 2025
A handout photo made available by the Lebanese Presidency press office shows members of the newly-formed Lebanese government posing for a group picture with the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (C), Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (C-L) and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam (C-R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east Beirut, Lebanon, 11 February 2025. Salam, former president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), was designated as Lebanon's Prime Minister by President Joseph Aoun, after gaining the support of the majority of lawmakers during the president's parliamentary consultation, ending more than two years under a caretaker cabinet. EPA / LEBANESE PRESIDENCY PRESS OFFICE HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY / NO SALES
Lebanon on 'armed resistance' and Rubio in the UAE

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

February 20, 2025
Police presence on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, 18 February 2025. EPA / Mohamed Hossam
Egypt's counter plan on Gaza, and SDF will not lay down arms

Yasmeen Altaji gives a round-up of today’s trends

February 19, 2025
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