Kim Ghattas is a Middle East expert, author and Emmy-award winning journalist. She’s a contributor to The Atlantic and the Financial Times. She was a visiting professor at Dartmouth College for Spring 2026 and a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Global Politics in 2024-2025. She previously reported for the BBC from the Middle East and Washington DC. She is the author of Black Wave, a New York Times 100 notable book of 2020 on the Saudi-Iran rivalry and of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power, a New York Times best seller. Her next book, The Best Kind of American- Murder, War and America’s Undoing in the Middle East, will be published in October 2026.
