Susannah George
Dubai
The Persian Gulf
Education: George Washington University, BA in International Affairs
Susannah George is The Washington Post's Gulf bureau chief, based in Dubai, where she leads coverage of the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf and their neighbor, Iran. She previously spent four years The Post's Afghanistan-Pakistan bureau chief, where she covered the fall of the Afghan government and the return of the Taliban to power.
She is a prize-winning journalist with deep experience in reporting from the Middle East, including assignments in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Tunisia during the Arab Spring and in Iraq on multiple tours.
She headed the Associated Press’s Baghdad bureau