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Ayman Oghanna
Based in Athens, Greece
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English, Turkish, Arabic
London-born Ayman Oghanna is a journalist, photographer and broadcaster who specializes in the Middle East. Half-British, half-Iraqi, he is best known for his coverage of the fight against the so-called Islamic State.
After earning an MA in international relations and Middle East studies from the University of St. Andrews, Ayman worked for The Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon before leaving to study journalism at Columbia University in New York.
In 2009, he moved to Iraq during a time when the country was receiving little media coverage to begin working professionally as a freelance journalist. He has since covered much of the Arab World and beyond, producing print, photo, digital, video and radio stories for various publications across a variety of platforms. including NBC, The BBC, The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, Newsweek, The Economist and VICE.
He was the first journalist to enter the Iraqi city of Mosul with Iraqi forces after more than two years of Islamic State rule and the first foreign journalist to reach Mount Sinjar by land during the Yazidi genocide. Winner of the Grand Format Prize at the Bayeux Calvados Award for War Correspondents.
He is proud to be a founding member of the Frontline Freelance Register, dedicated to protecting and uniting freelancers reporting in foreign countries and conflict zones.
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