Dania Akkad

Dania Akkad is Middle East Eye’s senior investigative editor. In 2022, her reporting on women’s rights in the Middle East was recognised with a Write to End Violence Against Women feature of the year award and was shortlisted as Drum award’s journalist of the year. She started her career covering crime and farming at the daily newspaper in Salinas, California, where John Steinbeck once worked, and then reported from Syria as a freelance journalist before the war, including investigating the 2005 suicide bombing in Amman that killed members of her family.