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Fatma Naib is a New York Festivals Award-winning Eritrean-Swedish freelance journalist based in Stockholm. She previously worked at Al Jazeera English based in Doha focusing on race, FGM, social justice, culture, refugees and women’s issues. Reported from Sweden, Kenya, Somaliland, Senegal, Zanzibar, Sudan, UK, Geneva and Egypt during the Arab Spring. Her latest film was Correspondent - The Cut: Exploring FGM.

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Fatma Naib undertook a journey to understand why so many communities continue to subject their daughters to female genital mutilation and what it would take for them to stop.

Published On 24 Apr 2018
Fatima - Kenya - The Cut

On International Women’s Day, Egyptian women activists throng the Tahrir Square to remind the men folk, of their contribution in the revolution and their role in a democratic Egypt.

Published On 9 Mar 2011

The people who continue to protest in Tahrir [Liberation] Square are still chanting "the people want to get rid of the regime".

Published On 7 Mar 2011

Thirteen million people head to the polls in the first election since the south seceded from the north in 2011.

Published On 14 Apr 2015
Sudan Elections 2015 outside image without text

Life in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby seen through the eyes of a mother fighting to improve life for its residents.

Published On 9 Sep 2018
Mothers of Rinkeby titled cover
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