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. Besides reporting from his native Iraq, he has also reported from Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.
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.
Books in order of publication:
Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq – 2005
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War – 2023
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