Featured Articles

Vanity Fair2025

"Syria, After the Fall of Assad, Reawakens From Its Half-Century Nightmare"

Syria begins to emerge from decades of authoritarian rule following Assad's fall, as citizens navigate the complex path toward potential democracy and rebuilding.

Vanity Fair2024

"Generation Gaza: The Young Have Pride Despite Privations"

A year after the October 7 attacks, examining the profound impact on Gaza's population and the enduring cycle of violence and suffering.

Foreign Affairs2023

"Russia's Smoking Guns: How to Prove the Putin Regime's War Crimes in Ukraine"

An unprecedented effort to collect court-ready evidence of Russian war crimes, setting Ukraine apart from past conflicts in the quest for international justice

Selected Articles

• • "A Year of Conflict in the Middle East, From a War Reporter’s Perspective" — Vanity Fair, 2024
• • "Surviving the Israel-Hamas War: A Young Palestinian Rock Musician's Ordeal" — Vanity Fair, 2024
• • "Inside the Efforts to Try Russians for Ukraine War Crimes—In Argentina" — Vanity Fair, 2024
• • "Why the War Crimes Charges Against Vladimir Putin Are So Significant" — Vanity Fair, 2023
• • "Vladimir Putin's Inhumane Blueprint to Terrorize Civilians in Chechnya, Syria—And Now Ukraine" — Vanity Fair, 2023
• • "Holding Russia to Account for War Crimes" — Vanity Fair, 2022
• • "The Vanishing" — Harper's Magazine, 2021
• • "A Place at the End of the World" — Vanity Fair, 2001
• • "Madness Visible" — Vanity Fair, 199
• • "On Moral Injury" — Harper's Magazine, 2020
• • "Notes on a Crisis: A battle to restore my vision" — Harper's Magazine, 2019
• • "The Vanishing" — Harper's Magazine, 2018
• • "When Justice Is Out of Reach" — The Atlantic, 2021
• • "Sierra Leone, 2000: A Case History in Successful Interventionism" — New York Review of Books, 2019
• • "There's a Right Way to End Syria's War" — Foreign Affairs, 2018
• • "After Zero Hour" — Granta, 2015
• • "Seven Days in Syria" — Granta, 2013
• • "The Book of the Dead" — Granta, 2016
• • "Finding Nusrat" — Granta, 2010
• • "In a Land of Silence" — Granta, 2011