Amelia Smith

Amelia Smith is a writer and journalist based in London who has reported from across the Middle East and North Africa. In 2016 Amelia was a finalist at the Write Stuff writing competition at the London Book Fair. Her first book, "The Arab Spring Five Years On", was published in 2016 and brings together a collection of authors who analyse the protests and their aftermath half a decade after they flared in the region.

August 1, 2023 | Amelia Smith

Egypt citizen tortured to death after police shocked wife with stun gun

The Geneva-based NGO, Committee for Justice (CFJ), has said that Egyptian citizen, Mahmoud Abdel Jawad, has been tortured to death at Nabaruh police station. Mahmoud was on his way...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
July 25, 2023 | Amelia Smith

Egyptians suffer as heat wave continues across the Middle East and North Africa

Egypt has warned the population not to use lifts for 20 minutes, each hour, whilst it implements power cuts so that it can conserve energy as a gruelling heat...

Published in: Africa, Algeria, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, UK
July 13, 2023 | Amelia Smith

'Life for black people in Tunisia 5 months after the president's racist speech has been incredibly challenging'

When Tarek Tookebry began raising funds to collect essential items for a humanitarian convoy to Tunisia's second city, Sfax – where black Africans are being increasingly attacked and deported...

Published in: Africa, Article, Europe & Russia, HRW, International Organisations, Italy, Opinion, Tunisia
June 20, 2023 | Amelia Smith

Egypt-Sudan border crisis: 'It's about showing we need more funding to open our borders'

When rival factions began fighting across Sudan in mid-April, thousands of people crossed into Egypt to escape the air strikes and machine gun fire. At the time, the horrors...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Ethiopia, EU, International Organisations, Opinion, Sudan
May 30, 2023 | Amelia Smith

'The climate is getting tougher; we can expect anything': Firas Kefi on the media in Tunisia

Last week, dozens of journalists protested in Tunis in solidarity with two Radio Mosaique journalists who were interrogated by the country's security forces. Haythem El Mekki and Elyess Gharbi...

Published in: Africa, Interviews, Tunisia
May 17, 2023 | Amelia Smith

Efforts underway to improve humanitarian crisis at Egypt-Sudan border crossing

Ongoing fighting between rival factions in Sudan has created a humanitarian crisis on the Egypt-Sudan border as thousands try to escape the horrors unfolding on the streets of Khartoum....

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion, Sudan