OUTRIDER (3/4/2023) By the dry riverbeds of northeast Jordan, Jehad Al-Masied sat down and remembered a time when water would flow. “When
I have written about a wide range of subjects, including birders and borders, political prisoners, black flowers blooming in the desert and communities resisting mining projects.
I am drawn to stories that highlight hope, beauty, and joy in unlikely places. My work focuses on resistance, courage, and kindness in the face of oppression, violence and environmental destruction; on the ways people respond to adversity with creativity and resourcefulness, and on how oppressed and marginalised groups express defiance.
I hope my work fosters solidarity, engagement and accountability.
EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL (March 2023) Autumn in Doñana National Park was once a spectacle of abundance. First the rains would arrive. Then,
PÚBLICO (5/2/2023) Uma mulher jovem sorri, enquanto segura uma AK-47. Veste uma farda militar e na cabeça tem um kuffiyeh, um lenço
BBC (9/1/2023) “Welcome to Jordan!” a group of kids shouted excitedly, as I stepped out of the car to admire the sun
FOREIGN POLICY (13/11/2022) As she looked out the window of her bare, dimly lit living room in October, Mervat Hamda counted the
DISCOVER MAGAZINE (2/11/2022) About 100 millions years ago, dinosaurs roamed through the coast of the ancient Tethys ocean that covered most of
EQUAL TIMES (5/12/2022) On a breathless summer morning in El Rocío, a village bordering Spain’s Doñana National Park, Juan Romero points to
AL JAZEERA (11/10/2022) Sitting in her home in a white-washed village nestled in Alentejo’s gently rolling hills, 92-year-old Inácia Cruz likes to
JOURNALISMFUND.EU Across the southern Iberian Peninsula, plastic greenhouses stretch to the horizon where rain-fed olives, wheat and grapes were traditionally grown. Spain