Incoming Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has expressed his excitement to work with superstar Cristiano Ronaldo - quashing uncertainty surrounding the Portugal captain's future.
01.05.2022 - 19:21 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
“I hate the word victim. And I don’t even like the word survivor. I’m not a mere survivor - I’m an agent of change.”
Amira Taha speaks calmly but fiercely, with the energy and poise of a woman who has not only come through great pain, but through it has found an understanding of herself far beyond her past. She is gentle, and emphasises kindness, but equally quietly steely.
And these are all qualities that you can see in her portrait, taken by celebrated photographer Allie Crewe, as part of her project ‘I Am’, which shines a light on those who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in their lifetimes.
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Amira is an accomplished professional, working both as a welfare rights officer at Salford City Council and an International Development Consultant. She was born and raised in Egypt, but left to do her graduate studies in the UK, worked internationally, and returned once again to the UK, where she has lived ever since.
She has also experienced IPV through emotional and mental abuse at the hands of a previous partner. Amira’s portrait is one of the dozen from the project that is being publicly displayed in Metrolink stations across Greater Manchester over the month of May - something she is understandably nervous about.
“It's a weird thing. There's a mixture of emotions. You're embarrassed to show that it happened to you,” she admitted. “You’re embarrassed because compared to other abuses, it's nothing.”
As a “private” person, even many of Amira’s friends are not familiar with her experiences with IPV. So when a friend texted her earlier this week asking if the photo displayed on a Metrolink
Incoming Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has expressed his excitement to work with superstar Cristiano Ronaldo - quashing uncertainty surrounding the Portugal captain's future.
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Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis yesterday (May 18), two of his surviving bandmates – Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris of New Order – appeared in Parliament to discuss mental health and suicide prevention.Curtis took his own life in May 1980 after battling depression and epilepsy in his final years. In an event that was originally due to take place in 2020 to mark 40 years since his passing, but was delayed due to the COVID pandemic, a special talk and panel titled Suicide Prevention: Breaking The Silence took place in the Speaker’s House in Parliament.NME were invited along to the event hosted by Kerry McCarthy MP that was chaired by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“The Bourne Identity” helmer Doug Liman is attached to direct the adaptation of a chapter from acclaimed nonfiction book “Rise And Kill First.” It details how Israel’s Mossad reached out in desperation to former Nazi Waffen SS lieutenant colonel Otto Skorzeny, a favourite of Hitler’s -branded by British intelligence services as “the most dangerous man in Europe,” to thwart an existential threat to Israel’s existence.The stranger-than-fiction true story is set up at New York’s Story Syndicate (“I’ll Be Gone In the Dark,” “Britney vs Spears,” “Becoming Cousteau”), headed by Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, and at Israel’s Abot Hameiri, producer of “Shtisel,” “The Attaché” and “Power Couple.” A Fremantle company, its co-founder, Guy Hameiri, assembled the world-class direction-production team. A Cannes Festival alum with 2010’s Palme d’Or contender “Fair Game,” Liman will also oversee development of the limited series.
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A beloved dad-of-four has been left fearful he may never walk again after he had a huge seizure ‘out of nowhere’ - before discovering that he had ‘the worst spinal infection’ his surgeons had ever seen. The 59-year-old suffered his second collapse in the space of a few weeks on Christmas Eve and was rushed to a hospital bed, where he has been ever since the shock diagnosis.
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An interactive mobile museum which shares the story of the poppy arrived in Dumfries on Thursday.
Metrolink passengers will see portraits of domestic abuse survivors displayed in stations across Greater Manchester throughout May as part of a festival exploring mental and physical health through the arts. The photography project, titled I Am , sees women and men who have experienced or witnessed intimate partner violence (IPV) bravely speak out about the impact of domestic violence in their lives in a series of images taken by celebrated photographer Allie Crewe.