Olivia Cuthbert

Journalist focusing on the Middle East

[Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸 @alexplitsas]

🚨 UPDATE: Please use the following webpage for @shellykittleson 👉🏼 https://t.co/edJh0ZOpqP to:

- Submit tips to @FBI

- Media inquires (family isn’t doing interviews but friends/colleagues are)

- Advocate for Shelly’s release

- Updates of the Case

- Background information

[#WomenInJournalism @CFWIJ]

#Iran: The state remains relentless in its persecution of women journalists reporting on protests triggered by the death of #MahsaAmini. At least 18 female journalists have been arrested since Sept 16.

Learn more: https://t.co/BMYtnpBUvk (1/2) 🧵

[Faisal Saeed Al Mutar @faisalalmutar]

Some people say, never meet your heroes.

I did and I was incredibly impressed.

https://t.co/IafwPjMni0

[Louise Callaghan @louiseelisabet]

If you want to see what the future of climate change looks like, go to Kuwait City and Basra in July. They cities are both oil rich, and 80 miles apart. But in one, there is 24/7 electricity and air conditioning. In the other, people live with constant power cuts.

[Douglas Ollivant @DouglasOllivant]

A comprehensive piece by @leloveluck and M Salim that captures the dilemma involved in the return of "ISIS families" to #Iraq. The misery of these families is obvious, but the communities are still traumatized by ISIS' crimes. No easy answers here.

https://t.co/JqzB8KNmJT

[Faisal Saeed Al Mutar @faisalalmutar]

My story is a struggle between my wanting to live free from authoritarianism and extremism and others wanting me to die because of it.

https://t.co/8GBwnV9hYX

My first article on my new substack The International Correspondent.

Please share widely!

[Reaam Mahbuba ريام قصي محبوبة @reaam_mh]

Students rescuing books in the aftermath of Daesh destruction of Mosul Library vs. The library today completely rebuilt

[Ideas Beyond Borders @IdeasB2]

“People come to us and say ‘you have changed my life or ‘I look at things differently now. Sometimes they send emotional messages saying our programs have given them hope in bad times,”

https://t.co/YMh55l3K3f

[Olivia Cuthbert @Liv_Cuthbert]

Three in four girls have been sent sexual images via apps, report finds https://t.co/nHMRtjfrqM

[Olivia Cuthbert @Liv_Cuthbert]

@TheWilsonCenter The surge in #GBV during the pandemic was mirrored by a spike in online harassment as abusers switched from the streets to social media in #MENA countries. With lockdowns accelerating the digitisation of employment, education etc, women need to feel safe not silenced online.

[Middle East Program @WilsonCenterMEP]

@Liv_Cuthbert brings attention to the devastating consequences of online harassment for women across MENA. #16DaysAtWilson
Watch the full interview with MEP Program Director @MerissaKhurma ➡️ https://t.co/Uycpi104Fp

[Gilgamesh nabeel @GilgameshNabeel]

Bringing Books Back to #Mosul University #Library - @AlFanarMedia @Liv_Cuthbert Al-Fanar Media https://t.co/0a1DmBsCSf

[UN Women Arabic @unwomenarabic]

Women in the Middle East & North Africa say social codes leave them unable to talk about social media abuse as pandemic pushes sexual harassment off the streets

Read the full article 👇🏾
https://t.co/Sas6fgf5u6
v @guardian

@UN_Women | @AbaadMENA | @FeMaleComms | @HayatMirshad

[Olivia Cuthbert @Liv_Cuthbert]

Women and girls in the Middle East have reported a surge in online harassment & other cyber crimes during Covid. I spoke to survivors about the fear & anxiety it causes in a climate of victim blaming and rising rates of GBV for ⁦⁦@GdnDevelopment⁩ https://t.co/O5WxEuEQxc

[Al-Fanar Media الفنار للإعلام @AlFanarMedia]

The Global Platform for Syrian Students @GP4SYS offers young people a valuable opportunity to pursue higher education abroad.

https://t.co/bsbLfErtUZ

[Al-Fanar Media الفنار للإعلام @AlFanarMedia]

“There were many incidents when I thought that this would be the final straw; every time I would say it can’t get worse than this.” - @AlsalloumAtaa, a Syrian scholar who found a way out of war-torn #Syria through @CARA1933

More in @Liv_Cuthbert's latest:
https://t.co/9NX71Y1Kuk

[Cara - the Council for At-Risk Academics @CARA1933]

Happy to share a piece from Al-Fanar Media today https://t.co/gQCUDd7yaO, profiling two of our Fellows, from Syria and Iraq. Both are doing really well – it’s been our privilege to be able to help them, and all the others. More Fellows’ stories at https://t.co/uieHUTkwnv.

[UN Women Arabic @unwomenarabic]

On #InternationalWomensDay advocates highlight the dramatic increase in gender-based violence after the #COVID19 pandemic & lockdown measures brought huge setbacks for women’s rights across the Arab States.

Full story ➡️https://t.co/KpsV1k8a7p
via @TheNationalNews
#IWD2021

[Mina Al-Oraibi @AlOraibi]

Lockdowns have been hard on many levels. Here @Liv_Cuthbert writes about the lessons learnt by ordinary people in extraordinary times https://t.co/zULhNPjfZh

[Suadad al-Salhy @suadadalsalhy]

Hundreds of Shia Turkmen women kidnapped in a 2014 Islamic State group rampage have been denied the opportunity for freedom and accountability due to the denial of their community’s leaders, Iraqi officials and activists told MEE by @suadadalsalhy