Tomislav Tomašević was elected on a grassroots reform wave, I interviewed him and spoke to people around him about how his history of youth and environmental activism has informed his administration.
I wrote this joint article with Dr Carrie Hamilton, an academic and activist, exploring the debates around sex worker rights in Green Parties across Europe.
For the Green European Journal, I tackled the tricky topic of where European Green Parties are at following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia and how this sits with their histories of pacifism and non-violence.
For the launch of Hyphen, a new online magazine covering news and stories for Muslims across Europe, I interviewed the head of the Muslim Chaplains Association about the work of chaplaincy in UK prisons.
“When you walk into that prison, every single day is different. You don’t know what to expect. Some days are more difficult than others.” Alamgeer Choudhury’s journey as a prison chaplain started 20 years ago, when he was finishing theological training to become an imam. By deciding to work with inmates, he was following directly in his father’s footsteps.
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Climate activists hope stronger EU laws will protect member states’ forests when governments won’t
Posted: July 1, 2022 in articles, environmentMy second piece for Euronews, this time on how EU law is helping to protect forests threatened by the combination of eroding democratic freedoms and the money that can be earned from logging.
At the beginning of the year, Poland started cutting a swathe through one of Europe’s most ancient forests, Białowieża, to block refugees with a 190-kilmometre wall along its border with Belarus.
“It’s five, almost six meters high. It goes down with concrete that is underground. And it has razor wire on the top,” said Augustyn Mikos from the environmental organisation Workshop For all Beings, one that has frequently come into conflict with the Polish government’s forestry policies.
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As part of Euronew’s series This will impact your life I wrote about the EU and its preparations for cyber warfare, a more present threat since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
When the systems of three oil and transport companies in Europe and Africa were brought down on February 2, 2022, Europe was preparing for a coming war in Ukraine and the impact of tensions on the Russian border were beginning to be felt in global energy markets.
The cyberattack sparked a wave of anxiety that a war in Ukraine would quickly expand online, with critical infrastructure at risk. Less than a week after the attack on SEA-Invest, and just eleven days before Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, the European Central Bank warned banks in Europe to brace themselves for a wave of Moscow-sponsored cyberattacks.
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For my first piece in the Metro, I wrote about long-covid and how it’s impacted people around fitness – particularly people who had been at the high-end of fitness before.
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This was one of the pieces that has come out of my project with the Museum of Homelessness.
Like many migrants, Adam came to the UK to support his family – his wife, son and parents – who stayed behind in Poland. He had been working as a chef for three years when his world ended. His family, all of them, died in a car crash. Nine years on, Adam still lives with the trauma and depression from those tragic events – but that was just the start.
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When the patient Sanisha Wynter sought help for her mental health, she struggled to access services, treatment, and support—and above all to be heard by the professionals she saw and the services she attended. Her story is disturbing yet familiar. One clinician told her she was a “strong Black woman,” drawing on a racialised stereotype that downplays the emotional and physical pain that Black women experience.
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Samir Jeraj - Freelance Journalist 