Friday 03 July 2009 Media Standards Trust

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  • Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who writes for the Guardian and is also a contributor photographer for Getty Images. He photographed and wrote from behind the insurgent lines in Falluja and amongst the Shia militia in Najaf as well as covering the daily violence in Baghdad, Iraqi elections and investigating jihadi networks in Syria and Jordan.
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  • Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has written articles published in The Guardian.

Most Recent article

Somalia: one week in hell – inside the city the world forgot

The Guardian, Friday 29 May (3 comments)

In a rare dispatch from war-ravaged Mogadishu, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad found a city daring to hope for a break from years of violence. Then the fighting resumed

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has written...

  • More about 'basra' than anything else
  • A lot about 'mogadishu' in the last month

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad by numbers...

  • 19 articles (since May 2007)
  • Average article: 48 column inches (1438 words)
  • Shortest article: 16 column inches (486 words)
  • Longest article: 135 column inches (4054 words)
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The topics Ghaith Abdul-Ahad mentions most:

 americans   baghdad   basra   fadhila   hizbullah   iranians   iraqis   islamic   mahdi   maliki   mogadishu   moqtada   qaida   saddam   sadr   shabaab   shia   sunni   taliban   tehran 

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