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Abby Sewell

Abby Sewell

A round-up of my work from 2018: a few stories I hope you’ll read

Around this time last year, I published some thoughts on my first year as a freelance journalist working overseas. I think everything I…

Jan 6, 2019

A round-up of my work from 2018: a few stories I hope you’ll read

Jan 6, 2019

Abby Sewell

Election Day in Lebanon’s Tripoli: bribes, sandwiches, calm and discontent

May 6 marked Lebanon’s first parliamentary election in nine years, an occasion that was greeted with hope, trepidation, and — in many cases…

May 7, 2018

Election Day in Lebanon’s Tripoli: bribes, sandwiches, calm and discontent

May 7, 2018

Abby Sewell

Lessons learned in my first year as an overseas freelance journalist

A little over a year ago, I left a staff newspaper job in Los Angeles and set up as a freelancer in Beirut.

Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

Abby Sewell

Anger swirls around U.S. Jerusalem decision in Beirut, bolstering Hezbollah

A pair of demonstrations in Beirut against U.S. President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel offered a study…

Dec 12, 2017

Anger swirls around U.S. Jerusalem decision in Beirut, bolstering Hezbollah

Dec 12, 2017

Abby Sewell

Before #MeToo Egyptian women had the BuSSy Project

In 2006, long before #MeToo, a group of Egyptian students decided to create a forum for women to tell their stories about culturally taboo…

Dec 8, 2017

Dec 8, 2017

Abby Sewell

Lebanon’s trash crisis: per Human Rights Watch, still stinks

Trash might not seem like the most pressing of Lebanon’s problems at the moment, especially after the recent bizarre political saga of…

Dec 1, 2017

Lebanon’s trash crisis: per Human Rights Watch, still stinks

Dec 1, 2017

Abby Sewell

Abby Sewell

Beirut-based freelance journalist and former Los Angeles Times reporter writing on refugees, politics, culture and travel. Story tips to: sewella @ gmail.com

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