Rami Abdel Rahman

Multimedia Journalist and Researcher

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Published articles

 

Transgender belly dancer helps launch Arab gay initiative

As a human rights group publishes details of a bloody campaign of hate being waged against gays in Iraq, Rami Abdelrahman speaks to members of a recently founded initiative for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Arabs in Sweden.

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Sweden: a life-long learning experience

When my research supervisor at Örebro University’s Global Journalism program told me I could develop my thesis as a blog, with posts and links instead of pages’ footnotes, I was impressed by how progressive Swedish learning institutions can be. Commentary.

The path to Swedish asylum: A smuggler speaks

Rami Abdelrahman travels to Jordan and tracks down the first link in the chain of an underground operation involved in the smuggling of Iraqi refugees to Sweden. Report.

Eastern ski resorts take centre piste

Longer hours of daylight, groomed slopes, cheap fares and a chance to explore über-foreign cuisine and culture. More and more are taking to Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech and Bosnian slopes.

Report.