WORK HIGHLIGHTS

For The Guardian

Disinfo Black Ops with Forbidden Stories: Winner for Online Journalism Awards 2023, Winner for European Investigative Journalism Award 2024
'Team Jorge' unmasked: the secret disinformation team who distort reality
Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles
French broadcaster BFMTV suspends presenter amid disinformation scandal
The Vulkan Files: Revealing Putin’s Cyber warfare [resulted in EU sanctions]
On Transnational Repression
Iranian activists across Europe are targets of threats and harassment
Threatened Saudi dissident told to live like Edward Snowden by Met police
Revealed: More than 1,000 unmarked migrant graves along Europe’s borders : Winner for European Investigative Journalism Award 2024, European Press Prize 2024
Israel-Gaza war highlights- Led and conducted visual investigations
Domicide: How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods – visual investigation- - British Journalism Awards 2024 nominee- Best Innovation
Destruction of Gaza: More than 1,000 craters: satellite images show destruction of northern Gaza Strip
Jabalia camp strike: Cratered ground and destroyed lives: piecing together the Jabalia camp airstrike
Impact on hospitals: Hospital damage in Gaza during Israeli offensive – a visual investigation
Weapons used by IDF: Gaza war puts US’s extensive weapons stockpile in Israel under scrutiny
Revealed: The digital trail of the head of IDF cyber intelligence:
The Gaza Project on deaths on Palestinian journalists: Amnesty Media Award 2025 nominee, German media award 2024 winner
‘The grey zone’: how IDF views some journalists in Gaza as legitimate targets
‘An incredible loss for Palestine’: Israeli offensive takes deadly toll on journalists
The humans behind the deep fakes
‘It’s not me, it’s just my face’: the models who found their likenesses had been used in AI propaganda
'Have I done something dreadful?' The real actors behind AI deepfakes backing dictatorships - video

For BBC World Service

The BBC uncovers evidence of possible UN arms embargo violations by UAE & Egypt, and a war crime that killed 26 young men in Libya.

A BBC investigation into the Libyan conflict uncovers evidence of suspected war crimes being widely shared on Facebook and YouTube.

A BBC investigation shows how Iran's largest airline - Mahan Air - continued to fly while government flight bans were in place, and contributed to the spread of Covid-19 in the Middle East.

A BBC investigation uncovers evidence of a possible war crime committed in a missile attack in Idlib in Syria which killed 39 people.

Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are hosting apps being used for an illegal online slave market of domestic workers in the Gulf.

An investigation into human rights abuses in one of the most secretive countries in the Muslim world, where female activists allege torture and rape at the hand of police, and pleas for democracy fall on death ears.

On 4 August, a massive blast devastated the Beirut port area. A huge store of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse is thought to have been the cause of the explosion. Who knew about the dangerous cargo and who is to blame?

A deadly missile strike on a migrant detention centre in Libya was carried out by a fighter plane from a foreign country, according to a confidential UN investigation seen by BBC Arabic.

The organisation in charge of Norway’s coronavirus contact tracing app has announced they have stopped all collection of data through their “Smittestopp” app. They also say they have erased all data gathered so far.

A BBC Arabic investigation has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting the Syrian-Kurdish political leader, Hevrin Khalaf, was executed by a faction of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army.

WITH BBC NEWS: Ukraine war: Cluster munitions used [Reporter/investigator]— BBC exclusive covered in international press
WITH BBC EYE & BBC RUSSIAN : Finding my torturer [Eng] [Rus] [Lead investigator & producer] — Won Amnesty Media Award Best Investigation, Won for Outstanding Innovation, BBC News Awards and Nominated for Digital Investigative Journalism Awards 2023. Resulted in EU sanctions.
WITH BBC AFRICA EYE & BBC ARABIC: Game of Drones (2020) [Eng] [Ar] [iPlayer] [Investigator, doc producer, impact producer]— Evidence cited in United Nations Security Council Report 2021 ; Shortlisted: Best Investigation 2021 at Asian Media Awards (UK).
WITH BBC NEWSNIGHT & BBC ARABIC: War Crimes for Likes (2019) [Eng] [Ar] [Reporter, lead investigator, doc producer, impact producer]— Shortlisted: Best Investigation category 2019 at Association of Intl Broadcasting Awards.
WITH BBC EYE: China’s Silenced Feminist: How Sophia Huang Xueqin went missing
WITH BBC ARABIC & BBC PERSIAN: Coronavirus by air (2020) [Eng] [Ar] [Lead OSINT investigator, doc producer, impact producer]— High Commendation: Best Short Doc 2020 for Association of Intl Broadcasting Awards; Longlisted: One World Media Coronavirus Reporting Award 2020.
WITH BBC ARABIC & BBC WORLD SERVICE TV: Idlib ‘double tap’ air strike Russia says never was (2019) [Eng] [Ar] [Rus] [Lead OSINT investigator, assistant producer, impact producer]—Won, Broadcast News category 2020, Amnesty Media Award.
WITH BBC ARABIC & BBC WORLD SERVICE TV: Hevrin Khalaf: Death of a peacemaker (2020) [Lead OSINT investigator, producer, impact producer]— Resulted in US imposing sanctions on a faction of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, and France renaming Lyon Square after Hevrin.
WITH BBC ARABIC: Maids for Sale (2019) : Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market [OSINT investigator, impact producer]— Shortlisted: Best Investigation for Broadcast Awards 2021; screened at the United Nations
WITH BBC ARABIC: Bahrain Breaking the Silence (2020) [Investigator, impact producer]— Screened and discussed in UK Houses of Parliament
WITH BBC WORLD SERVICE NEWS: Beirut blast long read— The Inferno and the Mystery Ship (2020) [Investigator]— BBC exclusive covered internationally
WITH BBC ARABIC: Libya migrant attack (2019): UN investigators suspect foreign jet bombed centre [Reporter/investigator]— BBC exclusive covered in international press
WITH BBC ARABIC & AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Coronavirus: Can you trust the contact tracing app in your phone? (2020) [Eng] [Ar] [Investigator, assistant producer, impact producer]— Resulted in removal of app in Norway

For BBC Newsnight - Investigative TV segments highlights

Jamal Khashoggi: What we k now so far (2018) [Investigator & producer]
What lies behind the Christchurc h terror attack? (2018) [Investigator & producer]
Does the UK have a responsibility to prosecute former IS fighters? (2019) [Investigator & producer]
What next for the British women who j oined ISIS? (2018) [Investigator & assistant producer]
Brexit talks with Labour break down. Who is to blame? (2018) [Assistant producer]