Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Journalist and author

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is a Syrian journalist and author. He was born in 1974 in Damascus, Syria. Abdul-Ahad worked as a correspondent for The Guardian in Iraq and Syria. He is the author of the book 'The Angel of Tombstone', which won the 2013 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Abdul-Ahad has also written for other publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times. He is known for his reporting on the Syrian...