Kim Ghattas

Emmy-award winning journalist and author Kim Ghattas is a leading voice providing incisive analysis on Middle Eastern affairs, international relations, and U.S. foreign policy, delivering her expertise to policymakers and academic institutions globally. Her extensive journalism career began with reporting for the Financial Times and the BBC from the Middle East. In early 2008, Ghattas moved to Washington, D.C., to cover the U.S.

Her prior affiliations include being a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 2017 to 2022 and a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2017. Ghattas is currently on a writing sabbatical until Spring 2025, dedicating her time to her highly anticipated third book, which explores Lebanon’s civil war as a foundational element of the U.S.-Iran conflict in the Middle East, slated for release in 2026.