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Reporter's notebook

Samira Shackle

Thoughts on writing, reporting and freelancing, plus links to my work and what I've been reading/listening to

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Latest Issues

From ISIS to influencer

Tareena Shakil, photographed by Chantel King for the Guardian

Tareena Shakil was 24 when she ran away to ISIS-held territory in Syria with her one-year-old son in 2014. Soon after arriving, she realised she had made a terrible mistake and...

a month ago

Inside the student recruitment machine

Illustration by Anaïs Mims for the Guardian

International students have been in the news a lot over recent years. Back in 2019, Boris Johnson set a target of attracting 600,000 each year by 2030. This target was surpassed in 2020, a decade...

2 months ago
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Can legal action save the planet?

Monica Feria-Tinta. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

This is a quick update to let you know that I had a story in the Guardian’s Long Read section on 8 April. It’s a profile of the barrister Monica Feria-Tinta, who has worked on a se...

a year ago
1

The strange tale of the radioactive chapatis

I have a story out in the Guardian Long Read this week - about a medical experiment that took place over 50 years ago but keeps resurfacing.

Here are the basic facts: in 1969, as part of an experiment on iron absorption, 21 Indian women i...

a year ago
3

The best of times, the worst of times

Stuart Potts, photographed by Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Hello and happy new year! I’m slowly creaking back into gear after two weeks in a haze of roast potatoes and CBeebies. I actually intended to send this post before Christma...

a year ago
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