Hannah Allam
National Security Reporter Focusing on Extremism and Domestic Terrorism, The Washington Post
2022
Hannah Allam writes about extremism, terrorism and national security for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2021 from NPR, where she also covered violent extremism. As a longtime foreign correspondent for McClatchy, Allam served as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq War and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. She returned to the United States in 2012 and has reported extensively on U.S. foreign policy, race and religion, and the mainstreaming of extremist ideologies. Allam was part of a Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. She serves on the board of the International Women’s Media Foundation, or IWMF, which supports and trains women journalists around the world.
It is a tragic reality that hateful ideology has found fertile ground online and offline, with consequences affecting not only Americans but people around the world. We cannot stand idle in the face of bias, bigotry, and extremism. Together, at the Eradicate Hate Summit and beyond, the collective will of individuals and organizations is needed to galvanize all people of good will to protect and defend our communities.
