Selected Investigations
Iraq’s failing F-16 fleet highlights corruption at Balad Airbase. Aug 12th 2020. Iraq Oil Report. Part One of Three. Read here.
Rising from the rubble: ‘If we don’t rebuild Mosul, maybe isis will come back’. March 26th 2018. The Guardian. Read here.
Life after slavery for Yezidi women and children. August 31st 2017. New Yorker. Read here.
Why was Iraqi influencer Tara Fares executed in Baghdad? November 2018. Stylist magazine. Read here.
Selected Essays
How ISIS changed the Yezidi religion. 22nd December 2017. The Atlantic. Read here.
A legacy in ruins. June 2017. The American Scholar. Read here.
A broken homecoming. May 2019. Foreign Policy. Read here.
Selected International Reporting
The Stakes of Kobani. December 2014. Roads and Kingdoms. Read here.
Slaves of ISIS: The long walk of Yezidi women. July 2017. The Guardian. Read here.
The Iraqi men whose pursuit of a better life in Europe ended in mass suffocation. Sep 2015. The Independent. Read here.
‘We are fighting terrorists, but we are also terrorists?’. February 2017. Politico magazine. Read here.
Selected Interviews
‘When Art Confronts Power’. A conversation with filmmaker Laura Poitras for the Big Issue in the North, on the release of her documentary All the Beauty and All the Bloodshed. Big Issue in the North. March 2023. Read here.
‘Open Source Secrets’. An interview with Bellingcat investigator Eliot Higgins about his new book We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People. Big Issue in the North. March 2021. Read here.
Author
With Ash on Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State (OR Books 2017)
Editor
Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence (Rutgers, 2021)