Freelance Writer & Researcher

Like most creative arts venues in London, Sadler’s Wells closed its doors in March 2020, following government orders to curb the spread of coronavirus. This autumn, the Sadler’s Wells ballet season begins with digital performances created in partnership with three UK dance companies - Hofesh Shechter Company, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company, and Candoco Dance Company.

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From candle-lit dinners over zoom to late night Tinder chats, the lockdown, and post-lockdown environment seems to give dating apps an even bigger monopoly over the industry than they had before. Interestingly, these matchmaking platforms whose algorithms basically orchestrate your chances of finding a mate are also facilitating a somewhat taboo industry: sugar dating.

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Jerusalem — “What is next, a police force for falafel, A police force for Ka’ik?” In a video posted on social media by the Wadi Hilweh Information center, Nitham Abu Ramouz is seen surrounded by military soldiers, and holding an official document requiring him to pay a 475 NIS fine.

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In Israel and Palestine, there is often little room for conversation about anything other than the territorial dispute. But viruses do not care for borders.

From South East Asia to Europe, we are witnessing the speed at which an illness can spread due to international travel. But in the Palestinian Territories, the coexistence of an infectious disease with a system of occupation is particularly alarming.

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PASSIA welcomed former head of the Middle East program at Chatham House and University professor Dr. Rosemary Hollis, to a roundtable discussion on 8th January 2019. Entitled National Narratives and the Occupation, the event invited Dr Hollis to present the findings of her latest book, Surviving the Story: The Narrative Trap in Israel and Palestine.

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A film maker is raising awareness about living with a degenerative illness by telling his father’s story in his latest project. Grant Taylor, a writer and director from Woolwich, is making a film about Parkinson’s disease, drawing inspiration from his father’s two-decade-long battle with the illness.

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London — City Hall has announced that Mayor of London Sadiq Khan approved the planning application to demolish and redevelop the Elephant & Castle shopping centre in South London’s prompting outrage from local communities and business owners.

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On Thursday 9 February 2017, Eustachio Mitrano, a former University of Bath staff member, was sentenced in Bristol Crown Court having plead guilty to one charge of outraging public decency as well as three charges of making indecent pictures of children.

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