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Lebanese journalist (born 1977)
Kim Ghattas
Ghattas interviewing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in 2014
Kim Ghattas (English: /ˈxætæs/;[1] born 1977) is a Lebanese journalist based in
Beirut who writes for The Atlantic.[2] Previously, she covered the US
State Department for the BBC.[3] She is a scholar at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, which The New York Times recognized as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2020."[4][5]
Life
Ghattas was raised
Christian in
Lebanon during the
1975–1990 civil war.[6] She attended the
American University of Beirut, studying political science. At the same time, she worked as an intern at an English-language newspaper in Beirut. She then worked for the Financial Times and the BBC from Beirut. After reporting from the Middle East, in early 2008, she moved to
Washington, D.C., to take up a post covering the US State Department.[7][8]
In 2013, Ghattas wrote a book titled The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power about her travels with
Hillary Clinton during Clinton's tenure as
Secretary of State.[9][10] She later covered Clinton's
2016 presidential campaign for the BBC.[11]
Ghattas's second book, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, is a post-1979 history of the
Middle East.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Works
The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power, Henry Holt and Company 2013.
ISBN9780805095111
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, Henry Holt in 2020.
ISBN9781250131201