Middle East

Ifath Sayed is a former intern for the Pulitzer Center from Doha, Qatar, and originally hails from India. She is a senior in Northwestern's Medill program. As a student, she has reported on rape...

Miriam Berger is a freelance journalist with a love for all things media and Middle East. She has reported from around the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia, and speaks Arabic, conversational...

Jane Ferguson is a PBS NewsHour correspondent, contributor to The New Yorker, and a multiple Pulitzer Center grantee. The 2020 Princeton University McGraw Professor of Journalism, Ferguson has more...

Urooj Kamran Azmi is a senior at Northwestern University in Qatar, majoring in Communication, with a certificate in Civic Engagement. She hails from Pakistan and is interested in pursuing social...

Shakeeb Asrar is a Pakistani journalist who lives between Doha, Qatar, and his hometown Lahore, Pakistan. He received his bachelor's from Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism with a...

Ako Salemi is the 2016 Persephone Miel Fellow. He was born in 1981 in Bukan, Kurdistan, Iran. Since 2006 he has worked as a photojournalist for several Iranian newspapers. He documents stories on...

Jahd Khalil is a freelance journalist based in Cairo. Before that, he was a co-founder of the independent Egyptian media company Mada Masr and has contributed to outlets including Buzzfeed, Fast...

Jonathan Rashad is a photojournalist and documentary photographer covering Egypt since 2008. He also covered stories in the United States, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Belgium and the Netherlands. His work has...

Ayman Oghanna is a freelance photographer and videographer. Most recently he was on contract with The New York Times in Baghdad. He also worked for The Economist as a videographer covering the...

Based in Beirut, David Enders is a correspondent, producer, and cameraman covering the Middle East. A Polk Award winner, he is currently freelancing and was formerly on staff at Al Jazeera, VICE, and...

Iason Athanasiadis is a freelance writer, photographer and television producer covering the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Based out of Cairo, Damascus, Doha, Tehran and Istanbul since 1999, he has...