Kim Ghattas (; born 1977) is a Dutch-Lebanese journalist for the

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who has covered the US

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. She is a scholar at the

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and the author of ''Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East'', which ''The New York Times'' recognized as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2020."

Life

Ghattas attended the

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, studying political science. At the same time, she worked as an intern at an English-language newspaper in Beirut. She then worked for the ''

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'' and the BBC from Beirut. After reporting from the Middle East, in early 2008 she moved to

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to take up a post covering the US State Department. In 2013, Ghattas wrote a book titled ''The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power'' about her travels with

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during Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State. She later covered Clinton's

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for the BBC. 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'', is a post-1979 history of the

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Works

* ''The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power'', Henry Holt and Company 2013. * ''Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East'', Henry Holt in 2020.

References

External links

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The ghosts of 1979
"Amanpour" ''CNN.'' 3 February 2020
Distorting the Iranian-Saudi Conflict
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