Articles
Columns
2011
Police put the phone down on my complaint over Twitter racial abuse - 20 November 2025
The Observer
The Algerian Paradox - 09 November 2025
The Majalla
Now comes Libya’s biggest test: can it resist chaos? - 21 October 2025
The Evening Standard
The massacre that Paris denied - 17 October 2025
The Guardian
The Gaddafi family - its key members - 30 August 2025
The Guardian
Now a battle for our future really begins - 23 August 2025
Daily Express
Amid chants of ‘lift your head high’, the West looks to the future - 22 August 2025
The Evening Standard
Gaddafi’s fate is as newsworthy as Murdoch’s - 15 July 2025
The Guardian
Journalist Nabila Ramdani is guest-editor at The Browser - 09 July 2025
Read Nabila’s selection of articles at The Browser
Libya’s civilian casualties have silenced Sarkozy’s crusade - 20 June 2025
The Guardian
Syria’s first lady: Asma al-Assad is no reformer - 23 May 2025
The NewStatesman
IMF Head scandal: Shaming of the Great Seducer - 21 May 2025
The Daily Express
IMF chief: A scandal in New York c’est normal for French politics - 20 May 2025
The National
Libya: France’s duplicity in North Africa stains its war effort - 07 April 2025
The National
Sarkozy steps up attacks on French Muslims - 05 April 2025
The Guardian
Libya: Is negotiation the answer? Head to head - Nabila Ramdani & Brian Whitaker - 28 Mar 2025
The Guardian
Did the internet matter in Tunisia and Egypt? - 18 Feb 2025
Open Democracy
Marine is no Le Pen Lite - 17 Jan 2025
The Guardian
Algeria has let its rioting youth down - 10 Jan 2025
The Guardian
European poll: An Islamic threat? - 06 Jan 2025
Al Jazeera.net
2010
Field of education, not the football pitch, is Qatar’s arena - 20 Dec 2024
The National
Common ground in the Doha Debate on the burqa ban? - 23 Nov 2025
Common Ground News / Search for Common Ground
Echoes of Vichy - 13 Sept 2025
The New Statesman
France’s racial intolerance comes from the very top - 02 Aug 2025
The Guardian
‘Burqa ban’ poorly veils Sarkozy’s failed efforts - 13 July 2025
The National
The new republic’s a non-starter at Sarko’s sleazy court - 09 July 2025
The London Evening Standard
French burqa debate is a smokescreen - 08 July 2025
The Guardian
France names and shames collaborators - 01 July 2025
The Guardian
Stepping out of Gaddafi’s shadow - 10 June 2025
The Guardian
Too many French willing to fit the xenophobic cliché - 02 June 2025
The Guardian
Laïcité and the French veil debate - 23 May 2025
The Guardian
Nicolas Sarkozy, a modern Louis XVI? - 09 Apr 2025
The Guardian
A needless furore over halal fast food - 30 Mar 2025
The Guardian
Le Pen’s back, and winning again - 18 Mar 2025
The Guardian
Parisians have a right to be rude - 03 Mar 2025
The Guardian
London now puts Paris night life in the shade - 05 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard
Sarkozy’s veil climbdown - 16 Jan 2025
The Guardian
2009
Quran and Country - 17 Dec 2024
The New Statesman
Language still a barrier in the banlieue - 16 Dec 2024
The Guardian
Taking sides in France - 14 Dec 2024
The Guardian
Escaping the ‘minority reflex’ - 03 Dec 2025
The Guardian
How romantic France fell for le grand divorce - 13 Nov 2025
The London Evening Standard
Sorry, Sarkozy – you won’t entice me back to France - 06 Nov 2025
The London Evening Standard
2007
The riots will begin when he is elected - 06 May 2025
The Observer
News stories & Features: Middle East & North Africa
2011
Syria: Assad family ‘selling off overseas property empire’ - 06 October 2025
Daily Telegraph
Syrian rulers’ global property empire ’up for sale’ as they prepare for defeat - 06 October 2025
The Evening Standard
Dictator’s wife ‘ordered bomb attacks in Tunisia’ - 04 October 2025
The Evening Standard
Gaddafi evading capture in Mercedes 4X4 given to him by Nicolas Sarkozy - 19 September 2025
Daily Mail
Algeria at risk of al-Qaeda revenge attacks after accepting Gaddafi family - 31 August 2025
Daily Telegraph
Libya: Algeria braces itself for terrorist attacks following arrival of Gaddafi family - 30 August 2025
Daily Telegraph
2 years on, the Lockerbie bomber marks his freedom with his family thanks to drug manufactured in the UK - 20 August 2025
Daily Mail
UK cancer wonder-drug enables Lockerbie Bomber Al-Megrahi to reach 2nd anniversary of release - 19 August 2025
Daily Telegraph
First the dictators were toppled. Now Kings are looking over their shoulder - 30 July 2025
The Times - Nabila contributes to a report by James Hider
Is Asma Assad in London? - 10 May 2025
Daily Telegraph
British-born wife of Syrian dictator ‘hiding in the UK with their three children’ - 10 May 2025
Daily Mail
Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard: ‘I had orders to kill him if the Americans tried to take him alive’ - 04 May 2025
Daily Mirror
Libya: Gaddafi confident of ‘finishing the job’ in 48 hours - 17 March 2025
Daily Telegraph
‘East Libya will be liberated in two days’, warns Saif al-Islam Gaddafi - 16 March 2025
Daily Mail
A rifle-waving rant from Gaddafi’s ‘moderate’ son - 28 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard
Soldiers are told to shoot demonstrators on sight - 25 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard
Please help us, my good friend Tony Blair: Gaddafi’s son asks for former PM’s help to ‘crush ennemies’ - 25 Feb 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Gaddafi’s cousin defects to Egypt as Libyan forces attack ‘rat protesters’ - 24 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard
Gaddafi forces hit back at revolt - 24 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard
Gaddafi offers cash rewards to Libyans to betray pro-democracy protesters - 24 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph
‘I will die a martyr’: Gaddafi calls on supporters in furious speech on Libyan TV - 22 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard
Muammar Gaddafi: I am still in Libya - 22 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph
Libya facing civil war as Gaddafi flees bloodshed - 22 Feb 2025
The Express
Gaddafi clings to power: Gunships and fighter bombers ‘sent to murder protesters’ - 22 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard - Frontpage
Libya: Muammar Gaddafi’s regime on the brink of collapse - 21 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph
Libya: Protests gather pace as Gaddafi’s son vows to fight to the end - 21 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph
Gaddafi flees: State buildings ablaze, dictator to make last stand in desert - 21 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard - Frontpage
Fifty more Libya deaths take toll above 300 as mourners are massacred - 21 Feb 2025
Daily Mail (scroll down for Nabila’s piece) - Exclusive
Middle East crisis: Libyan protests move closer to Tripoli - 21 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph - Frontpage
Libya protests: ‘foreign mercenaries using heavy weapons against at demonstrators’ - 20 Feb 2025
Daily Telegraph
Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as protest mounts - 12 Feb 2025
Sunday Telegraph
Greed of the Tunisian president’s wife that drove a nation onto the streets to start a revolution - 16 Jan 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Despot’s daughters in VIP suites at Disneyland Paris (Riots in Tunisia) - 16 Jan 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive (scroll down below Nick Pisa’s piece)
2010
Tony Blair’s company ‘to make £27m advising Kuwait on how to govern itself’ - 14 Dec 2024
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Thousands flock to bomber’s deathbed - Libyans surround Megrahi’s house for his final days - 12 Dec 2024
Sunday Mail - Exclusive
Lockerbie bomber is ‘preparing to die’ - Megrahi’s health deteriorating fast, says relative - 10 Dec 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Al-Megrahi was ‘well catered for’ - 03 Dec 2025
BBC News Scotland - Radio 5 Live
Lockerbie bomber’s family to sue for false imprisonment and neglect, says Gaddafi - 03 Dec 2025
Daily Mail
Doctors of Lockerbie bomber claim they are trying to cure his cancer - 26 Sept 2025
Sunday Mail - Exclusive
Lockerbie bomber blast at Britain: Jail killed me a million times - 23 Aug 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Bomber marks big day watching TV and asking about Rangers - 22 Aug 2025
Sunday Express
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi ‘speaks in Scots accent’ - 22 Aug 2025
Sunday Express
Lockerbie bomber Al-Megrahi marks 1st anniversary of freedom by watching BBC and talking Rangers with pals - 22 Aug 2025
Sunday Mail
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi’s celebration - 22 Aug 2025
Sunday Mirror
Lockerbie bomber could live until 2017, say doctors - 20 Aug 2025
Daily Mail - byline in the newspaper edition
Gaddafis to help Megrahi celebrate a year of freedom - 15 Aug 2025
The Sunday Times - additional reporting
‘Thank God for Gordon’: Gaddafi orders Libyans to pray for Brown - 14 Aug 2025
Mail on Sunday - Exclusive
Lockerbie bomber freed to die is now being given ‘miracle cure’ drug - 13 Aug 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Blair in secret talks with Gaddafi - 16 July 2025
Daily Mail - Front page lead story
Tony Blair our very special adviser by dictator Gaddafi’s son - 05 June 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive interview
Lockerbie bomber is better than ever, brags Gaddafi’s son - 16 Mar 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
2009
Prince Andrew ‘had Lockerbie talks with Gaddafi son’ - 06 Sept 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Scottish Parliament rejects ‘catastrophic’ decision to release Megrahi - 02 Sept 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Gaddafi honours Scotland with pipers at 40th anniversary party to thank them for Lockerbie bomber’s release - 02 Sept 2025
Daily Mail
Kilted pipers at Gaddafi’s pageant to honour Scotland for freeing Megrahi - 02 Sept 2025
The London Evening Standard
Revealed: How Jack Straw backed Gaddafi talks - 01 Sept 2025
The London Evening Standard
Megrahi ‘at work’ mocks justice, say Lockerbie families - 22 Aug 2025
The London Evening Standard
The birth pangs of freedom - 09 Mar 2025
The Daily News Egypt
News stories & Features: Europe
2011
John Galliano friend killed by massive overdose - 21 August 2025
Daily Telegraph
House of Dior cover up? John Galliano’s British right-hand-man died from cocaine overdose - 21 August 2025
Daily Mail
Exclusive Galliano investgation - 21 August 2025
The Sunday Times - Exclusive
France burka ban rebel Kenza Drider on fighting ‘injustice’ - 16 April 2025
Daily Mirror
2009
I grew up near Henry, but a win like this is shameful - 20 Nov 2025
Daily Mail
Sex, bribes & love potion… why M&S knickers girl’s playboy lover has been arrested - 28 Oct 2025
Daily Mirror - Exclusive
The star science pupil who grew up to become Al Qaeda’s ‘nuclear mastermind’ - 17 Oct 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Big Bang scientist ‘planned to blow up oil refinery in terror attack’ - 13 Oct 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Minister in sex row bids to free rapist brothers - 11 Oct 2025
The Express
Muslim woman banned from wearing a ‘burkini’ in a French swimming pool -13 Aug 2009
Daily Mail
2008
Elephant man transformed by transplant miracle tells his moving story - 23 Mar 2025
The News of the World - Exclusive interview
French accuse English of war crimes and exaggeration over Agincourt - 24 Oct 2025
Daily Telegraph - Front page lead story
‘French Anne Frank’s’ book a hit - 12 Jan 2025
Daily Telegraph
2007
Murdered earl still loved his scheming wife - 27 May 2025
Daily Mail - Exclusive
Clooney, Willis, and Borg were my lovers, says wife accused of murdering Earl - 20 May 2025
Mail on Sunday - Exclusive
Nabila in the News
Nabila and her work are often quoted in international publications.
2011
Saif al-Islam captured in Libya - 19 November 2025
BBC News
North African Women press for freedom, rights, and dignity - 28 July 2025
The Africa Report
UK unlikely to ban burqa after Belgium and France - 15 July 2025
The Huffington Post
Du Désenchantement au Désespoir: Les Arabes dans la tourmente - 23 June 2025
Le Nouvel Observateur
Is the Arab Spring good or bad for terrorism? - 22 June 2025
BBC news - Report by BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner
Morocco reforms to cut monarch’s power - 17 June 2025
Al Jazeera.net
Discours attendu du roi du Maroc - 17 June 2025
Radio-Canada.ca
Asma al-Assad whereabouts - 10 May 2025
Al Jazeera.net
African Union seeks end to Libya unrest - 17 April 2025
Tehran Times
Libye: Un premier pas vers la paix? - 11 April 2025
Paris Match
Gaddafi said to accept ‘truce road map’ - 10 April 2025
Al Jazeera.net
A Week in the Life of Nabila Ramdani - 18 March 2025
Emel Magazine
Nabila Ramdani in an Intelligence Squared Debate on ‘Turmoil in the Arab world’ - 24 Feb 2025
London School of Economics (LSE) - International History Department (scroll down)
Nabila Ramdani takes part in an Intelligence Squared Debate on ‘Turmoil in the Arab world’ - 23 Feb 2025
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Newsletter (scroll down)
L’Algérie suivra-t-elle l’exemple de l’Egypte et de la Tunisie? - 12 Feb 2025
Liberté - quotidien d’Algérie
Unrest in Tunisia and Egypt - 31 Jan 2025
Leading Bulgarian weekly publication ‘Capital’
Algeria democracy rally broken up - 22 Jan 2025
Al Jazeera.net
Algeria’s youth have been so badly let down - 11 Jan 2025
Open Democracy
2010
Tony Blair attacked on Iraq war ‘fortune’ - 14 Dec 2024
The London Evening Standard
Nabila Ramdani in 60 secs - 17 Nov 2025
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Newsletter
Le CEDAR met 10 musulmanes à l’honneur - 05 Nov 2025
SaphirNews.com
Las mujeres mas influyentes del Islam - 05 Nov 2025
El Universal - De10.com.mx
Europa elegeu pela primeira vez as suas muçulmanas mais nfluentes - 31 Oct 2025
Pùblico
Nabila Ramdani: Winner of the inaugural European Muslim Woman of Influenc (EMWI) Award 2010 - 30 Oct 2025
CEDAR Network
Britain’s age of apathy? - 21 Oct 2025
Al Jazeera.net
About-face: French ban on veil wears thin - 12 Oct 2025
Gulf Times
Ban Sarkozy’s veil ban, say 78% of audience - 12 Oct 2025
Qatar Tribune
French veil ban gets a beating at Debates - 12 Oct 2025
The Peninsula, Qatar
Une violente expulsion mais peu de bruit en France - 04 Aug 2025
Le Soir
International media react to police forcibly evicting immigrants - 04 Aug 2025
France 24.com
Video stirs debate on French police tactics against immigrant protesters - 03 Aug 2025
The New York Times
Pour la presse anglo-saxonne, Nicolas Sarkozy reprend son rôle de “Super flic” - 03 Aug 2025
Le Monde
France’s top Muslim leader seeks doubling of country’s mosques to 4,000 - 03 July 2025
The National
2009
Frances struggles to find its identity - 05 Dec 2025
The National
L’anti-parisianisme dort parfois à la fraîche - 28 Feb 2025
Médiapart.fr
Parisiens, têtes de chiens - 20 Feb 2025
Courrier International
2006
Humiliation for French government - 11 April 2025
BBC News online
