Amira Al Hussaini

Reporter

Amira Al Hussaini is the regional editor for the Middle East and North Africa for Global Voices Online.

Amira Al Hussaini is the regional editor for the Middle East and North Africa for Global Voices Online. She is a former news editor of an English language daily in Bahrain. Amira was educated and raised in Bahrain. Her interests include writing, the arts and human rights.

Children in El-Mahalla El-Kubra role-playing as ISIS fightering and “slaughtering” other children. Faces in this screenshot were blurred by Global Voices Online.

Egyptian kids would rather play 'ISIS executioners' than 'cops and robbers'

Here's a stark lesson in why many people want ISIS execution videos and images to be ignored: A group of children in Egypt was recently filmed re-enacting an ISIS-style beheading, showing just how much propaganda value such images can have.

Egyptian kids would rather play 'ISIS executioners' than 'cops and robbers'
Tariq Al Mubarak

When women drive, Saudi Arabia arrests a man

When women drive, Saudi Arabia arrests a man