Meet the distinguished journalists and analysts volunteering their time to independently review entries and recognize exceptional work from and about MENA communities.
Yasmin Vossoughian is a National Correspondent for NBC and a frequent fill-in anchor. She previously hosted MSNBC’s “Yasmin Vossoughian Reports.” She has been out front of the biggest stories, from the Trump hush-money trial, to the consequential 2020 election, the mass shooting at Uvalde, and the ongoing war in the Middle East.
Kareem Fahim has served as a Middle East correspondent for The Washington Post since 2022, and previously served as Istanbul Bureau Chief. Prior to joining the Post, he was a staff reporter for The New York Times for 11 years, covering the metro desk and then Cairo after the 2011 uprisings. He began his career at the Village Voice as a freelancer and then staff reporter.
Isma'il Kushkush has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Smithsonian, The Nation, Guernica, the Associated Press, and others. Based in Khartoum for eight years, he twice served as acting East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times in Nairobi. He holds an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School, was a Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow at the Schomburg Center, and an Ida B. Wells Fellow with Type Investigations.
Reem Akkad is The Washington Post’s Deputy Head of Visuals and its first Visual Enterprise Editor. She has led projects recognized with Webby Awards, Emmy nominations, Online Journalism Awards, and a Pulitzer finalist citation. Known for building cross-disciplinary teams, she advances multimedia and social-first storytelling across photo, video, graphics, audio, illustration, and design.
Yousef Munayyer is Head of the Palestine/Israel Program and Senior Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC. He serves on the editorial committee of the Journal of Palestine Studies and was previously Executive Director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, and more. He holds a PhD in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Maryland.
