Erica Elkhershi

Head of Multimedia @TheNationalNews Previously News Video Editor @EveningStandard, Exec producer UTV Ireland & producer/director @Telegraph.

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵

[Erica Elkhershi @EricaEl_]

How cool! @Astro_Alneyadi will be the first Arab astronaut to perform a spacewalk #RepresentationMatters https://t.co/kZe7HIqUp7 via

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Timing!😄

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

At Beirut airport today, I went through passport control at noon (they were using international time).

I then entered a wormhole and boarded my flight at… 11:30 a.m. (Berri/Mikati time)

[Taylor Heyman @Taylorheyman]

The next episode of the Great Arab Food Fight is out - and this week, it's hummus! I agree with the wonderful @MonaFarag_ - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Also starting a petition to get these guys a Netflix deal 🤩

[The National @TheNationalNews]

The President of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa, has died aged 73 https://t.co/BhiQWNczZ8

[The National @TheNationalNews]

UAE President, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, has died

[Willy Lowry @willy_lowry]

A visibly shaken and angry Senator Elizabeth Warren just spoke in-front of #SCOTUS. @TheNationalNews

[Erica Elkhershi @EricaEl_]

Their faces just light up when they put on the football boots 🤩
Imagine if one of these kids went on to be the next @MoSalah #Messi or @Cristiano

[The National @TheNationalNews]

This pupil in Dubai collects used football boots and sends them as gifts to refugee children https://t.co/nX0HBmRX5M

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Watch the #Expo2020Dubai closing ceremony LIVE with performances from YoYo Ma, Norah Jones and Christina Aguilera

https://t.co/nJDiV4FxAa

[The National @TheNationalNews]

"I am a mother of two kids, I see them less now but they are proud of me"

Mothers, doctors, retirees, businessmen - even dogs. These are the volunteers taking up arms against Russia to defend "peaceful" Ukraine

Latest on #RussiaUkraineWar: https://t.co/5DItejMCqx

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Amid his son’s tears, a Ukrainian policeman says goodbye to his family as they are forced to flee the city of Irpin after heavy Russian shelling https://t.co/5DItejMCqx

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In the windows of nearly every car in a queue stretching from Mayaky in Ukraine to Moldova, signs in Russian and Ukrainian read CHILDREN - a desperate plea to let them pass safely

@erinclarebrown reports from Ukraine

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The National's correspondent Erin Brown reports from the central train station of Bucharest, Romania where refugees who fled war in #Ukraine seek aid and navigate their next steps @erinclarebrown

[Erica Elkhershi @EricaEl_]

This Ukrainian father wrote ‘children’ in Russian on his windscreen as he drove his family to the border. From @OliverGMarsden in Ukraine

[Oliver Marsden @OliverGMarsden]

My video work for @TheNationalNews from the first two days in Ukraine. As people try to flee the Russian invasion, Ukrainian families and foreigners were left in desperate situations as they tried to cross the border to Poland.

[The National @TheNationalNews]

Meet the German father and his daughter who are helping Ukrainians to safety https://t.co/5DItejMCqx

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This is the moment a Ukrainian mother is reunited with her children in Hungary. https://t.co/ETtLi6UHXk

[Erica Elkhershi @EricaEl_]

“It’s not really a proper bomb shelter, it’s a basement”
This woman is hiding out, hoping Russia won’t take Kyiv
https://t.co/FhC2CZBwlr

[Erica Elkhershi @EricaEl_]

'We don't actually have anywhere to go"

@ChrisDYork spoke to some Kiev residents who fled to metro stations early this morning after hearing explosions and air raid sirens

[The National @TheNationalNews]

"I woke up hearing some weird sound."

Residents of Ukraine's capital, Kiev, flee their homes after air raid sirens go off https://t.co/5DItejv11X