Beirut, Lebanon
Kim Ghattas graduated from the American University of Beirut where she studied Journalism with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2016
United States
Kim Ghattas interviewing Hilary Clinton.
2017
Kim Ghattas with satirists Karlre Marks from Lebanon and Hisham Fageeh from Saudi Arabia.
Kim Ghattas interviewing John Kerry.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
2016
United States
Kim Ghattas interviewing Hilary Clinton.
2017
Kim Ghattas with satirists Karlre Marks from Lebanon and Hisham Fageeh from Saudi Arabia.
Beirut, Lebanon
Kim Ghattas graduated from the American University of Beirut where she studied Journalism with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Kim Ghattas interviewing John Kerry.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
Portrait photo fo Kim Ghattas.
(The first inside account to be published about Hillary Cl...)
The first inside account to be published about Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, anchored by Ghattas's own perspective and her quest to understand America's place in the world In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she set out to repair America's image around the world - and her own. For the following four years, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her entourage, and she weaves a fast-paced, gripping account of life on the road with Clinton in The Secretary.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00940KTFI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
2013
(Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopoliti...)
Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy. With vivid storytelling, extensive historical research and on-the-ground reporting, Ghattas dispels accepted truths about a region she calls home. She explores how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. She shows how they used and distorted religion in a competition that went well beyond geopolitics. Feeding intolerance, suppressing cultural expression, and encouraging sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, the war for cultural supremacy led to Iran’s fatwa against author Salman Rushdie, the assassination of countless intellectuals, the birth of groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the September 11th terrorist attacks, and the rise of ISIS.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MMLTR7J/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
2020
Kim Ghattas was born in 1977 in Beirut, Lebanon to a Lebanese father and a Dutch mother. She has two sisters Audrey and Ingrid. She was raised there, on the front lines of the Lebanese civil war. Searching for answers about the chaos around her is what made her want to become a journalist at the age of 13.
Kim Ghattas graduated from the American University of Beirut where she studied Journalism with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Kim Ghattas started her journalism career in 1997-1998, as an intern in Beirut at the local English-language newspaper The Daily Star. Soon, she started reporting for Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant as well as the Financial Times and the BBC. She spent her time on the road covering the Middle East: reporting from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and of course Lebanon. In 2006, her BBC colleagues and she covered the war between Israel and Hezbollah and they won an Emmy for international news coverage.
In 2008, Ghattas left her posting in Beirut to become the BBC's State Department correspondent based in Washington, DC. For six years, she traveled regularly with Secretary of States: Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry. She was recognized by publications like Monocle for her State Department reporting.
Kim Ghattas's front-row seat to the making of American foreign policy led her to write a book, The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power, which became a New York Times bestseller. The book includes personal reflections about being a child in war-torn Lebanon, growing up with questions about America.
Ghattas' work has been published in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Time magazine and The Washington Post. She regularly speaks on American television and radio, and at special events, on Middle East issues and American foreign policy.
Ghattas serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut, her alma mater and a beacon of intellectual engagement in the Middle East.
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, was published by Henry Holt in January 2020. She is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, shuttling between Beirut and Washington D.C.
(Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopoliti...)
2020(The first inside account to be published about Hillary Cl...)
2013Kim Ghattas fas born to a Christian family. She is not practicing or religious, but it is her social identity in Lebanon.
Kim Ghattas' passion is food and cooking. She confessed promising herself that one day she would write about food or open a restaurant. She speaks Arabic, French, English, and Dutch.
There is no information on whether Kim Ghattas is married or has any children.
