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Award-winning investigative journalist with 20 years of experience in crisis analysis, social research, and fieldwork leadership across Iraq. Expertise in Crisis Analysis & Social Research, Investigative Journalism, Fieldwork Leadership, TV and radio newsrooms, and guiding new media and news websites.

His research, reports, and investigations focus on Iraqi politics and economic crises, climate and environmental issues, environmental displacement and migration, public health, social transformations post-war, crisis analysis and social research, public protest trends, local governance challenges, multidimensional regional issues, suicide and gender issues, oil and population issues in southern Iraq, and more.

Between 2019 and 2022, he worked as a researcher at the London School of Economics (LSE) to study the protests in Iraq and Basra. Researcher with the Arab Reform Initiative on the repercussions of climate impacts and environmental mobilisation in Iraq.

Award:

* The 2017 Naseej Prize for Diversity and Multiculturalism was jointly awarded by the French Agency for Media Development (CFI) and the Samir Kassir Foundation.

* The 2018 Kurt Schork Memorial Prize for Journalistic Courage from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. 

* The 2022 European Union Press Freedom Prize (Samir Kassir Prize). About his investigation: Iraq’s water crisis and climate change led to migration and civil conflicts.

In 2019, he published his investigative book, Iraq after ISIS: Crises of Excessive Optimism.

His articles and research on political, economic, and environmental analysis have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, and Persian.