Souad Mekhennet

Souad Mekhennet (born 1978) is a German journalist and author of Turkish–Moroccan descent who has written or worked for The New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast and German television ZDF. Since 9/11 she has covered conflicts and terrorist attacks in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. She is currently an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and a foreign policy fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

She was one of two Times reporters who published the first story on Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen, who was detained, flown to Afghanistan, interrogated and allegedly tortured by the CIA for several months. She also worked on the series Inside the Jihad. She and her colleague Michael Moss managed to speak to various jihadist leaders, including the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The series provides a unique look into Jihadist strategies and motivations.

Mekhennet is the co-author, with Michael Hanfeld, of two books in German, Islam (2006) and Die Kinder des Dschihad: Die neue Generation des islamistischen Terrors (2008) and one in English, with Nicholas Kulish, of The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim (2014).

In February, 2015, she was the lead reporter of a Washington Post story which first revealed the true identity of the ISIS militant known as "Jihadi John".

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