Souad Mekhennet
Souad Mekhennet (born 1978) is a German investigative journalist who has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, International Herald Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and German television channel ZDF.
She has appeared on CNN's Connect the World with Becky Anderson, CBS This Morning, MSNBC's Morning Joe, BBC World News, ABC News, The Mimi Geerges Show, and numerous other television and radio shows and segments in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.[citation needed]
She is currently a national security correspondent for The Washington Post[1] and attends Peter Thiel's Dialog events. [2]
Early life and education
[edit]Souad Mekhennet was born in 1978 in Frankfurt[3] to a working-class family, the daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father. She grew up principally in Germany, but spent some years of her childhood in Morocco.[4][5]
In May 2018, Mekhennet won the Nannen Prize.[6] A month later, she captured the Ludwig Börne Prize, a prestigious literary award bestowed upon a German-speaking author in acknowledgement of outstanding performances in reporting.[3] Mekhennet was also nominated for a 2018 Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding by the British Academy (renamed the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in 2021) for her memoir I Was Told To Come Alone.[citation needed]
Books
[edit]Mekhennet is an author of four books:
- I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad (published by Henry Holt and Co., 13 June 2017) ISBN 978-1-62779-896-9
- The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim (published by Penguin Random House, New York, 6 March 2014) ISBN 978-0-307-47521-3
- The Children of Jihad: The New Generation of Islamist Terror in Europe (published by Piper Verlag GmbH, 8 June 2008) ISBN 978-3-492-04933-7
- Islam (published by Arena Publishing GmbH, 15 June 2006) ISBN 978-3-401-06220-4
References
[edit]- ↑ "Souad Mekhennet". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 June 2026.
- ↑ Cameron, Dell. "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Souad Mekhennet mit Börne-Preis geehrt". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 5 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
- ↑ Al-Awsat, Asharq (19 February 2011). "Asharq Al-Awsat talks to the New York Times' Souad Mekhennet". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
- ↑ "Journalist Ventured 'Behind The Lines Of Jihad' To Interview The World's Most Wanted". NPR.org. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ↑ "Souad Mekhennet wins special prize in the German Nannen Prize series". The Washington Post. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
External links
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- Souad Mekhennet on X
- Souad Mekhennet at the Muck Rack journalist directory
- 1978 births
- 21st-century German journalists
- German non-fiction writers
- German people of Moroccan descent
- German people of Turkish descent
- Goethe University Frankfurt alumni
- Living people
- The New York Times journalists
- The Washington Post journalists
- German Muslims
- 21st-century German women journalists
- Dialog organization participants
- Journalists from Frankfurt
- 21st-century German writers
