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Azad Essa

Azad Essa

Verified

Journalist, Middle East Eye

Johannesburg

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Politics

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HospitalityGender IssuesCannabisSportsDrinkHistoryTransportMusicAll With A Southern California HookWomen’sWHOHuman-RightsFoodSustainabilityMetroEntertainmentSex TraffickingPandemicEvents On Campus

Biography

I am a South African journalist based between Johannesburg and New York. I have reported for Al Jazeera English from across the African continent, as well as South Asia, covering politics, development and poverty. I am the author of Zuma’s Bastard (Two Dogs Books) and The Moslems are Coming (Harper Collins India) and an e-single No country for the poor (Harper Collins India). I have also written for The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Middle East Eye, among others.

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Total articles 825

  • Inside the campaign to end Microsoft's collaboration with the Israeli army

    By Azad Essa Verified · Middle East Eye

    Apr. 10, 2025

  • 'They executed him': Palestinian Americans outraged over killing of teen in West Bank

    By Azad Essa Verified · Middle East Eye

    Apr. 08, 2025

  • US: New Jersey school slammed for 'anti-Palestinian' assignment on activist Mahmoud Khalil

    By Azad Essa Verified, Ahmed Najar · Middle East Eye

    Mar. 27, 2025

As seen in

Independent Online,The Guardian,The Washington Post,Substack,Reliefweb,News24,Foreign Policy Magazine,Al Jazeera Arabic,City Press,Al Jazeera English,Middle East Eye

Company Info

Middle East Eye

London, United Kingdom

+44 20 3327 8633

Founded: 2014