Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Born1975 (age 48–49)
Baghdad, Iraq
Occupation(s)Journalist
Freelance photographer
Known forDocumenting various wars and conflicts for high-profile newspapers

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (Arabic: غيث عبدالأحد, born 1975) is an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion. Abdul-Ahad has written for The Guardian and The Washington Post and published photographs in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times (London), and other media outlets.[1] Besides reporting from his native Iraq, he has also reported from Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.[2]

Abdul-Ahad has received the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the James Cameron Memorial Trust Award, the British Press Awards' Foreign Reporter of the Year and the Orwell Prize.

Author of the book A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War, published on March 14, 2023, in which he describes how he, and other Iraqis, experienced life and war in Iraq before and after the invasion and occupation.[3]

  1. ^ Abdul-Ahad, G.; K. Alford; T. Anderson; R. Leistner (2005). Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing. ISBN 1-931498-95-4.
  2. ^ Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith (21 February 2013). "How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons)". London Review of Books. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  3. ^ Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith (2023). A Stranger in Your Own City : Travels in the Middle East's Long War. New York: Knopf / Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0593536889.