Fellows & Editors
Pesha Magid
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Georgia
- Year:
- 2017
- Find me on:
Pesha Magid is a freelance journalist currently working out of Istanbul. She previously spent two years working at Mada Masr, an independent Cairo-based website. She’s written extensively about refugees, gender and politics in Egypt. Aside from her work in Egypt Magid has reported from Tunisia, Ethiopia, Kenya and now Turkey. Her work has been published in the Guardian, Mada Masr, the Cairo Review, Egypt Today, Egyptian Streets and Tunisia Live. She loves to experiment with reporting and produces videos, visuals and audio clips to improve stories. Magid speaks and reads Arabic and basic French and Spanish.
Stories
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Kissing On The Dancefloor of Horoom
The beats pulsing from techno music force the walls to shudder as smoky air dances through green support beams in the underground space. Dim stars seemingly sway across that dark dancefloor, but...
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‘I remember fleeing for my life.’ An LGBTQ Activist Faces the Violent Global Traditionalist Movement
While the United States saw mostly-peaceful Pride rallies in recent days, activists in other countries have marched under the threat of imminent violence. From Russia to the former Soviet state of Georgia...
Blog Posts RSS
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May 22, 2017 | by Magid, Pesha
Notes from a thousands-strong anti-LGBT protest
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