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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] She is currently a writer for The Atlantic and a contributing editor to the Financial Times.[6]

Life

Ghattas was raised Christian in Lebanon during the 1975–1990 civil war.[7] She attended the American University of Beirut, studying political science, while also interning at an English-language newspaper in Beirut. She then worked for the Financial Times and the BBC from Beirut. In early 2008, she moved to Washington, D.C. to take up a BBC post covering the US State Department.[8][9]

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.[10][11] She later covered Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign for the BBC.[12] 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.[13]

Works

  • The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power, Henry Holt and Company 2013. ISBN 9780805095111
  • 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. ISBN 9781250131201

References

  1. ^ “Kim Ghattas, author of The Secretary, Shares Her Book Picks – YouTube”. www.youtube.com. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  2. ^ “Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook: Israel/Gaza Edition”. WNYC. 6 November 2023.
  3. ^ “A Reporter Looks at Hillary Clinton’s Public Diplomacy”. Huffington Post. April 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  4. ^ “An alternative Middle East”. newstatesman.com. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  5. ^ “100 Notable Books of 2020”. The New York Times. 20 November 2020.
  6. ^ “Kim Ghattas on Gaza, the Middle East and the day after”. Clingendael. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  7. ^ Gross, Terry (30 January 2020). “‘Black Wave’ Author Chronicles Cultural, Religious Upheaval in the Middle East”. National Public Radio. And also, there was a Christian-Muslim divide in the civil war, and your family is Christian.
  8. ^ “Review: “The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power’, by Kim Ghattas”. Star Tribune. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  9. ^ “Kim Ghattas discusses Hillary Clinton and ‘The Secretary’“. Chicago Tribune. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  10. ^ Weisman, Steven R. (8 March 2013). “‘The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power’ by Kim Ghattas”. The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  11. ^ Rauhala, Emily. “Hillary Clinton’s long — and complicated — relationship with China”. Washington Post. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  12. ^ Kim, Ghattas (27 February 2016). “US election 2016: On the campaign bus with Hillary Clinton”. BBC News. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  13. ^ “‘Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East,’ by Kim Ghattas: An Excerpt”. The New York Times. 28 January 2020. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 February 2020.