Samia Nakhoul

Samia Nakhoul is an award-winning journalist and editor with more than three decades of experience covering the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently Global Foreign Policy Editor at Reuters. Nakhoul began her career reporting on the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s and has since covered major regional conflicts and milestones, including the 1990–91 Gulf War, the Egyptian Islamist insurgency, the first Palestinian–Israeli peace talks, and the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

Her reporting has spanned pivotal moments such as the Arab Spring, the fall of four Arab presidents, the Syrian civil war, and the rise and fall of ISIS in Mosul. She has also produced notable investigative work, including a 1992 exposé on an Islamist “state-within-a-state” in Cairo’s Imbaba district, which prompted government action.

Nakhoul’s work has earned her numerous distinctions. She won Reuters’ Scoop of the Year in 2011 for breaking the news of Muammar Gaddafi’s capture and death, and her special report on the secret plan to take Tripoli was a Pulitzer finalist. She was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite by France in 2014, received the Reuters Baron Award in 2015, won Reuters’ Scoop of the Year again in 2020 for leading coverage of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, and became the 2021 laureate of the Women in News Editorial Leadership Award for the Arab region.

She holds a degree in international affairs.